[Dream/Video]

[fistfullofmagic]

[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.))

Comments

First Dream | Interactive

[closedcircuit]

[Ky dashes forward, grabbing onto the lid and trying to haul it off. He doesn't think he knows where he is at the moment, but that's not what's important.]

Hold on. I'll get you out of there.

2nd Dream | Interactive

[redcladidealist]

[As Dhaos's voice echoes across the water, his red and black reflection on the water ripples, then subtly changes. Another face peers up at him, brunette instead of blond.

Holding out one red-gloved hand, Lloyd reaches down (up?) to the other man. He's not drowning, clearly not in any distress, but he's still completely submerged. But who said any of this had to make sense?]

First Dream | Dreamwalking

[zelda_hylia]

What are you doing? He's alive, stop that!

[Zelda hurries over to the sarcophagus, putting her hands on the lid and trying to push it off again.]

Dream One | Interactive!

[grandhealer]

[ Raine was in the room looking at the surroundings of it before turning her head to the sounds of the coffin closing. Immediately she has realized something was wrong about the coffin closing like that.

Quickly, she proceeds to walk over to the coffin to try to take the lid off. Perhaps there was something inside that might be on interest ]