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caughtinanetwork2012-04-27 05:04 pm
fistfullofmagic) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-04-27 05:04 pm
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[Dream/Video]
[For some, sleep is where they retreat when the world just becomes too much to deal with. Alas, ‘tis not a perfect retreat.
Upon falling asleep, Dhaos is not greeted with the fare that is usually associated with dreams. Instead, he sees a vaulted ceiling; very old, and very familiar. On the edges of his vision, four faces are visible. Terror sparks within him when he realizes what he’s lying in. He tries to bolt, only to find that he’s paralyzed.
NO!
His words too seem trapped in his throat. A heavy grinding noise sounds as a great stone lid is sealed over him. He wants to cry, scream, bang his fists against the lid, anything to escape that small dark prison.]
[Then the scene dissolves into white. For a moment, all is still and silent. And then, the faint sound of chimes. …Or perhaps it’s water? Slowly but surely, blue overtakes the white until the two meet at the horizon. Then the image sharpens and the blue transforms into the many tiers of a vast sluice. In the center of one of the many pools, a figure in black and red hovers just above the water. The world shifts again, the figure now in focus, surrounded by azure butterflies that seem to glow from within. Stillness again for a time, the only sound the ever present chimes. Then, Dhaos begins to sing.]
Face to the sea
I hear the wind
Calling me to truth
Close your eyes
And dream beneath
The warmth of skies of blue
Longing to rest my weary bones
So long the path
O be still my soul
[When he wakes, the covers are in complete disarray and his face is wet with tears. He lays there unmoving for quite some time.]
((OOC: Both dreams are interactive, so whether you decide to interfere or bother him about it after he wakes up, just specify which part you’re responding to. The song Dhaos sings is the first verse of “Starry Moonlit Night” from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. The game is also the inspiration for most of the second dream.))
Upon falling asleep, Dhaos is not greeted with the fare that is usually associated with dreams. Instead, he sees a vaulted ceiling; very old, and very familiar. On the edges of his vision, four faces are visible. Terror sparks within him when he realizes what he’s lying in. He tries to bolt, only to find that he’s paralyzed.
NO!
His words too seem trapped in his throat. A heavy grinding noise sounds as a great stone lid is sealed over him. He wants to cry, scream, bang his fists against the lid, anything to escape that small dark prison.]
[Then the scene dissolves into white. For a moment, all is still and silent. And then, the faint sound of chimes. …Or perhaps it’s water? Slowly but surely, blue overtakes the white until the two meet at the horizon. Then the image sharpens and the blue transforms into the many tiers of a vast sluice. In the center of one of the many pools, a figure in black and red hovers just above the water. The world shifts again, the figure now in focus, surrounded by azure butterflies that seem to glow from within. Stillness again for a time, the only sound the ever present chimes. Then, Dhaos begins to sing.]
Face to the sea
I hear the wind
Calling me to truth
Close your eyes
And dream beneath
The warmth of skies of blue
Longing to rest my weary bones
So long the path
O be still my soul
[When he wakes, the covers are in complete disarray and his face is wet with tears. He lays there unmoving for quite some time.]
((OOC: Both dreams are interactive, so whether you decide to interfere or bother him about it after he wakes up, just specify which part you’re responding to. The song Dhaos sings is the first verse of “Starry Moonlit Night” from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. The game is also the inspiration for most of the second dream.))
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Of course He is. He's all-knowing and benevolent. Just because you can't see what will happen doesn't mean that everything is chaos. We can all be redeemed, and why wouldn't you want to consider the fact that they may not have died in vain, and that their deaths weren't the ends for them?
Believing in God gives you both a reason to be moral and a reason to continue to fight for what you know is right. It lets you have hope!
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...It is a fool thing to follow a king who will not descend from his throne to walk amongst those he calls his people.
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1/3
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Your god has given no indication of his existence to us. ...And yet here you are, speaking as if your way of thinking is the only correct way. Judging me when you know so little of me, of my people... of all that I've done, everything I have endured, that I've sacrificed to spare as many of them as I can from a slow and painful death! And no matter what any god might offer for, nothing is worth that sort of suffering!
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...And you refer to me as the arrogant one, for all that from my standpoint I see nothing but a boy who has not outgrown the idea that his view of the world is the only correct one.
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