bravenewworld | Pantsu part 5: The Dreamening

[Dream]

[If you managed to fall into one of Eiji's more pleasant dreams you'll be met with a clear and peaceful night in what looks to be the middle of the Verdant forest. The trees give way to just enough sky to let the full moon shine through.]

[There's a small clearing and a camp set up. You'll find Eiji there tending to a fire and humming while he cooks a few skewered fish. Approach?]

[Nightmare]

[It starts out innocent enough. What you see around you is a small, somewhat weathered few floors of one of Union's towers. It's full of children, running and playing. It shouldn't take you long to realize it's an Orphanage.]

[Eiji is in one of the bigger rooms sitting with a bunch of kids. He's dressed oddly (By which he's dressed like a normal person in Union dresses like) and looks a few years younger. He's regaling them with stories about his grandfather.]

[It seems like a pretty nice dream until you start to smell smoke. Suddenly the place is over come with flames, kids are screaming, and Eiji is frantically trying to help but it starts to get too much. Everything is burning.]

[Locked to Rei]

[He'd been in and out of the strange Dream world a few times this week. He's not surprised to find himself back. While he knows its safer to stay with the trees, he aims to venture out to see if he can find anyone he knows.]

[Action: Real World.]

[Holy shit what the hell was going on. Aka Eiji just appeared back into his bed at the Shrine after a particularly nasty dreamwalk. Hina's startled awake- puffing up and trying to figure out what's going on.]

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[Fish. Lakshmi knew that smell. Dreams could smell? Curious. The Liepard saunters toward the camp, surprised by who she sees.

Eiji, was it? She didn't come down to the shop very often, but she does seem to recognize this human. She isn't one to beg either, but berries aren't much her thing, and that fish smells heavenly...]

[Smoke. As Elly moved through the boundary between dreams, that was the first thing that assaulted her senses. The heavy, musky smell of smoke. That sent her in a full-tilt run toward the scent. Someone was in danger.

Putting a sleeve over her nose and mouth as she came across the scene, immediately recognizing Eiji. What was this? Running over, she immediately starts tearing cloth from her jacket.]

Water, over there! Wet it and tie it around your face. When we go in, stay close to me.

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[Well, he will find someone that he knows! Eventually Eiji will stumble across someone he's very familiar with: His cousin.

Rei is sitting on a fallen log with a small group of Pokemon around her. Four familiar ones: Phobos, Deimos, Moeris and Casius...and one new one. A Gastly that seems to be hovering very closeby.

When she speaks, she doesn't even look at him, unconsciously feeling the connection between them and answering without a thought.]

Eiji? Is that you?

[Ankh's been sort of chilling in the absence of most everyone, but he's by no means unaware of the tension going on around him. He realizes that Eiji's disappearance wasn't intentional or natural, but rather than look like he actually gives a shit by going after him, he just waits for him to return.]

[When he does, Ankh is perched out on the railing of the shrine like he's habitually started doing when he wakes up, inevitably before Eiji. The sudden reappearance of the colorfully-dressed vagrant startles him, as does Hina's sudden spook, and he hops off the railing to seek him.]

Ah, you're back.

Dream.

Nightmare.

Locked

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