14 [Action + 2 Dreams] - Anytime in the 1st week

[niepokonany]

[ACTION]

[During the daytime, Feliks is keeping himself very busy.]

[Since deciding that maybe -- just maybe, mind you! -- his family's future is kind of his business, he's done his best to keep making a good name for them and himself. And what better time than the Soulfasting to get in people's good books?]

[So, armed with a big basket of high-end sweets, he's paying visits to all the prominent families and citizens he can think of, just sort of dropping in as unannounced as he can. His other friends might be getting a knock on their door sometime this week, too!]

[DREAM 1]

[Far, far away, in a wooded valley surrounded by tall, white-peaked mountains, there's an idyllic kingdom. There are few humans -- it seems to be populated half by an even mix of fairy, grass, and psychic types, and half by... Ponytas?]

[Anyway, everyone is living in peace, frolicking around and eating lots of berries and stuff. But! The fabulously-dressed prince of this realm has a terrible problem! Spotting a stranger (a new servant??), he runs to their side.]

Quick, you totally have to help me hide!

[DREAM 2]

[The setting is a dinner party, taking place in what seems to be an empty black void with a spotlight on the table. There are only three people there -- Feliks, Fai's uncle, and you.]

[And wow, is the atmosphere tense. They hardly talk, and Feliks gets visibly more and more uncomfortable with each little exchange. For his part, the older man appears to be making it worse -- what start as veiled insults get sort of comically direct and over the top as dream logic removes the need for social conventions.]

"You should just disappear out there, playing adventurer with your Pokemon. No one would miss you, and my family would be the better for it!"

[Annnnd there goes Feliks's temper.]

Excuse you, what?!

"I said, 'pass the salt.'"

You didn't! You totally didn't, you total weirdo! He didn't, right?!

Comments

[niepokonany]

Haha, my hero! Okay, onward!

[Feliks gestures in some random direction, which in the dream world is probably as good a way to navigate as any.]

[makeitquick]

[ Ohhhhh kay!! ]

You got it, boss!

[ And let's set off at a light jog in... that direction ]

[niepokonany]

[Soon enough, they end up in a dark forest, with tall trees all but blocking out the sun; it comes through in slanting rays that cut a little too starkly from the shadows, only just illuminating the path and the little white flowers at the side of it. Feliks laughs, his arms around her neck.]

I think we lost them!

[makeitquick]

Yeah, not hearing anyone! [ She comments this, but she also doesn't know quite where she is. It's dark and- well okay, it's Feliks's dream, right? It's not going to be evil for her or anything, right. So she stops, but doesn't let him down either. Instead looking around to get herself grounded again ]

[niepokonany]

Like, what'd you stop for?

[They do appear to be safely away from people, so he's not too worried, but he's a little confused about it.]

[makeitquick]

'Cus I don't know where I'm going. Do you?

[ Just getting her barings ]

Sorry for the late tag, RL happened!

[niepokonany]

Of course I do! I mean, we're obviously going that way!

[He points directly into the forest.]

it's cool these things happen

[makeitquick]

[ :T Okay, okay - ]

So we're still going?

Thanks :)

[niepokonany]

I mean, unless you wanna just hang out in the middle of the street?

[makeitquick]

[ Is it a street, wasn't it a fore--- no, it's a street. Dreams are weird. But okay, she snorts, and keeping him in her arms, makes to get back on her jog away ]

[niepokonany]

This is way better.

[It's easy for him to say, since she's ferrying him around so obligingly.]

Like, who wants to be stuck in a castle all the time, anyway?

[makeitquick]

Dunno - never lived in nothing near a castle, so it's sounding pretty good to me.

[ She even smiles a little in the midst of it, thinking about it ]

1/2

[niepokonany]

Yeah, but it's all like, "don't go wandering" this, and "get married already!" that, and who has time for it, right?

2/2

[niepokonany]

The tea parties are pretty great, though!

All the food, really.

Oh! And like, the plays, and the dancing. And the clothes!

[makeitquick]

[ Tea parties... ] Sounds to me like you got all kinds of pros there for some hassling nos. But that's for someone who's never had to life. Maybe that sounds more annoying when it's over and over.

[niepokonany]

Yeah, maybe.

Okay! So I've decided! We're totally gonna build our own castle, and then no one there can tell us what to do!

[makeitquick]

[ What.

But then, this is a dream... right? So as she leaps past a large boulder, the other man still in her arms, she giggles at that ]

Yeah? That does sound pretty good!

[niepokonany]

It's gonna be bitchin'! Like, a bright pink, flying castle!

[makeitquick]

So where're we building it? [ Because she's still carrying him out and all. Why pink? But oh well, don't question it ]

[niepokonany]

Anywhere? Like, does it matter, if it can fly?

[makeitquick]

[ Oooo kay. So she stops in her tracks. ]

Then how about here?

[niepokonany]

Sure, works for me!

[He hops out of her arms, and disappears behind a nearby tree in a matter of moments.]

[makeitquick]

Hey, where're you going now-?

[ Obviously, she needs to at least attempt to follow behind the tree. Attempt ]

[niepokonany]

[He reappears by the time she follows, nearly bumping into her as he emerges with a brush and a comically enormous can of paint.]

To get supplies, duh!

[...Why are they behind that tree? And shouldn't he be worried about building before painting?]

[makeitquick]

[ It is a dream... ]

Where's the bricks? I can do that.