caughtinanetwork | 002 [video/dream]

[It's a nice, relaxing day at Sakurami City's Park. It seems to be close to evening though, as most of everyone here is preparing to go home. Reisuke seems to be hanging out in an empty sandbox all by himself...his parents are absolutely nowhere in sight. It seems he's just watching some kids leaving with their parents, before he looks down at the puppets on his hands, as they now seem to speak to him.]

"Don't worry, there's still plenty of time before we need to go home!"

"That's right, we can keep playing for as long as you like, Rei-kun! So, what would you like to do now?"

"Oh, I know, let's finish building a sandcastle together! And Rei-kun will be the prince of the land!"

[Suddenly, the other puppet turns to the other, almost with a slightly annoyed tone to its voice.] "No no no, Rei-kun would be the king! He would be the greatest the kingdom has ever seen, and he would be regarded as the most elite ruler of them all..."

[Reisuke doesn't answer them back as he watches the last person leave, but after a moment he nods as he removes his puppets from his hands once more. It's a bit hard to build while wearing them, and even though the sky seems to be getting close to evening, he's still nowhere near close to making any castles, it's just a big mound of sand...maybe it would be easier if he had help, but that's fine. It's not like he hasn't done this before by himself. Still...]

"An elite king, huh..."

"Why stop there, when you could become God?"

[Suddenly, there's a strange-looking girl standing across from him and his little mound of sand that he's been working on. She takes a seat and begins to add more sand from her side of the dome, helping to shape it as she continues to speak. She begins to tell a strange story, of an entity named "Deus ex Machina", and a game to decide who should take his place as the next god of space and time. It's rather hard to believe, but...]

"And there you go, you have been chosen as one of the twelve potential successors."

"Wow..."

[Until now, Reisuke had never been sure if God was as real as his parents had claimed him to be, but now...well, if God existed, then that had to mean there were other things that existed too, right? He leans over to look through a tunnel that has been built in his mound of sand.]

"So...can you tell me if aliens exist or not?"

"...What?"

"Well...if there's a God, I thought there might be aliens, too! I'd really like to meet one! So...if you can introduce me to one, then I'll join your game."

[She stares at him for a moment before she is suddenly no longer on the other side of the mound. When Reisuke looks up, she's now standing on the top of the slide next to the sandbox as she places a hand over her mouth and begins to make an odd "whirrring" kind of sound, a light appearing and shining down over them from what appears to be a UFO.]

"Reisuke Houjou, you have discovered my secret. I am an alien."

[Reisuke finds himself being lifted into the light and before he knows it, he's no longer on the playground. Now he's standing in a spaceship and as he looks out the window, he can see that they're over-looking the earth itself.]

"So the earth really is round, huh?"

[She grins as she points to the window, to the earth.]

"Once you win the game, you will become God of that world."

"Wow, that's super elite!!"

[She nods in agreement and then starts to open her mouth like she's about to say something else...]

[But then he suddenly finds himself staring at the ceiling of the apartment he lives in. He sits up with a slight frown as he looks around, before giving what sounds like a small sigh of disappointment. Seems like he hasn't noticed just yet that the new dreamberries have recorded that dream of his...]

((ooc: surprisingly no real need for warning labels, though it does get kind of silly towards the end? also my wrists are kind of acting up, but I will try not to be too slow with tags... ;A;))

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[It's true. She suspected Deus might have something to do with their being here in the first place, but...clearly, that isn't the case. Her diary doesn't even work here, either--

So for once it's like she's just...normal.

A normal person with hopes and dreams. With no need to worry so much about the Seen or Unseen Worlds.]

I...I don't really remember.

[She doesn't remember her dreams. Although with these new phones...]

Perhaps I'll find out.

You don't? [There's a slight pause, before Reisuke beams slightly and he looks down at his own phone, having perhaps figured out the same idea you had.]

...Well, if it ever shows up on this, I hope it's a really cool and happy dream, that way it'll be fun to watch! [Just like how everyone else seems to have watched his dream on here! ...Though granted, he'd probably watch it anyway even if it wasn't a "happy" dream by normal standards. :\]

[:/ That's cause he's just a weird kid like that. It probably wouldn't even bother him. But she forces a bit of a chuckle at that-- she's not even sure if it's meant to be condescending or more genuine.

As a housemate, he does seem to bring out strange emotions in her.]

I hope so as well. It would mean a lot. [To break away from this place, even for just a little while.]

...So maybe I'll be lucky like you.

[Giggle] Yeah! I'm sure of it, you'll be really, really lucky too!

[He seems so sure. Oddly, that makes her feel a bit confident, too; and though he doesn't seem all that tired anymore, she also didn't really mean to barge in on him.

She just wanted to check up on him after the broadcast of the dream.]

Did you want to go back to sleep?

I dunno, I'm already awake now... [Can we stay up like the cool kids, 'cause we're totally not sleepy at all! ...Really!] Is Onee-chan gonna be going to go sleep soon?

I was considering it.

[She grins a little. She hadn't expected him to want to stay up-- he certainly sounds like he's still groggy, but he has become more animated since their conversation began, so...]

But I suppose I'm awake now as well. Perhaps we could read a story...

[Or something.

That's what little children like, right...? She has no idea, despite living with one.]

A story? [Well...he doesn't really feel like going back to sleep yet, so that's fine.] Okay! What kinda stories would you like to read together?

[The library is a bit hard to ignore, even for her. Despite reading not being one of her ideal past times, she does like to write; so she finds herself stopping in on occasion, and picking up the more simplistic books.

Lots of pictures, very little words-- or just enough words to get its point across.]

Let's see if I have something suitable.

[In other words, books that would pretty much be perfect for Reisuke. But he can decide for himself. She'll show him, and maybe they can even take turns reading aloud.

She wouldn't be used it, but--well, she's expanding her comfort zone a little bit at a time.]

Okay! [To be fair, he's not really used to having people read to him either. His parents had always been far too..."busy" to spend time reading books with him, so in a way, this is kind of nice. Just don't be surprised for when he'll eventually start nodding off a bit once they have gone and found a suitable book to take turns reading together. ^^;;]

[...Well, that's okay. It takes Tsubaki a little longer, but she takes over for most of the reading then, until he falls asleep completely. She finishes the story anyway, since there wasn't that much more of it, and then she takes him back to his room, as she feels she should.

She feels oddly satisfied when she returns to her own, and falls asleep not long after.

...Another day survived.]

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