Mission Vision -- very early in the morning of Imagination Day 6 [Video]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin falls out of his bunk, as usual when waking from a mission vision. CRASH! He hits the floor, his blankets entangled with his legs, his right shoulder striking the floor with a thud. Luckily Elves don't break bones easily, but his shoulder is going to hurt. He scrambles to the ICP. ]

Wouldn't you know it, I've just had another prophetic dream. [ He shakes his head and drags his hand through his disordered black hair. ]

Didn't like the looks of this one, either.

I was in a jungle, and it was pleasant enough. Sun shining down through the branches, forest sounds, nice. But suddenly the light intensified, and something seemed wrong with it. I ran to the next clearing and gazed up at the sky, and what I saw was ominous. The sky had turned a glaring dark red and was getting darker by the moment. And then everything grew still, as though the world had stopped. I did not have time to react to that, or wonder what it meant. Abruptly the ground shook under my feet, and the dust rose, and there was fire everywhere, and I heard screams, screams, and more screams. And then I woke up.

Damn if this doesn't seem to me like another candidate for an aborted mission! What the hell happens to the mission world? Is it self-destructing, or is it attacked by unknown forces? Or is this some simple natural disaster?

[ Still shaking his head. He grabs for his jacket and pulls it on. ]

Did anybody else have this dream? Or any variation of this dream?

Comments

[luckydragonsfoot]

It uh. It was...

[He has to breathe for a minute, honestly- aside from the direct past life connections, there's the whole matter of talking about it at all, but with what they both probably saw- !]

Ages ago, back home yeah. But th' way I've been havin' my visions 'n stuff hasn't changed b'tween th' two, y'know..? An'...

...An' back then, saving a kid tha' was s'pposed t' die...for a whole year after, 's village wen' through hell, an' then got slaughtered. I...

Th..There's gotta be a way t' recover righ', from whatever we saw, righ'? If there ain't...an' we pr'vent it...

...I don' want to think about what would happen tha's worse...

[so_dark_a_road]

I'm sorry it turned out that way. You think that kid's village wouldn't have been slaughtered if the kid had died?

I wonder what is the real connection between our visions and the events they foretell? In my world, I had visions of events that I should have tried to prevent but didn't. I don't know if something worse would have happened if I had somehow prevented these occurrences; I can't even imagine what could have been worse than what did happen.

I'll have to consider what you say, though. We aren't going to know much more about the situation until we get there.

[luckydragonsfoot]

...Littl' more than 'think', [is the cryptic reply, the look in his eyes briefly far older than it should be on a young human teenager. It quickly vanishes however, and he rubs his head.] ...Mos'ly I jus' get flash's for a reason I figure...th' kind of stuff you can't stop b'fore it happens, or don't realize until after th' fact... ...but like, havin' th' heads up lets y' do stuff after, y'know? Helps y' keep a cool head...

I jus'...really hope it ain' th' worst it could be, y'know?

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin sees that brief flash of an ancient consciousness or knowledge. He normally doesn't see that except in Elvish eyes, but he doesn't discount it just because Katsuya is a human teenager. ] I do understand, even if the reason for your visions is a little different from the reason for mine.

I hope that the vision we saw doesn't happen at all, or that it turns out to be preventable. But if it isn't preventable, I hope that it somehow allows us to keep a cool head, as you say, and gather our resources and our intelligence to mitigate the disaster.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Yeah. Y...yeah, same, [He somewhat repeats, nodding a bit numbly.]

...Guess uh. ...Here's t' seein' what comes our way, huh?

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin nods back, smiling kindly. ]

Here's to that! [ He raises an imaginary glass. ]