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 Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 7:20 pm
"Y'got to ask if y'want to know things. That's how it works." Gloom slipped closer, staring up at Theo as he rose up on his hind legs. "Here ..." Shadows welled up around Theo and pressed in. They washed over the man, warm and cold at the same time and then- He was dry, no longer damp. "There. Better? Now I can tell y'things."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 8:06 pm
He thought he was asking. Maybe Gloom was like a genie or something. These things had to be specified. He could handle that.
Theo opened his mouth to rephrase as the shadows enveloped him, and for a moment he couldn't speak at all. His eyes snapped shut, lips pressing together at the unexpected sensation.
"What the hell was that? No, wait, that's not my question." He shivered. "What are those hands? That one. I'm asking that."
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 5:13 pm
"M'Gloom," he answered the previous question that was asked. "Those were ... don't know the name of them. Not all the things in the shadows are nice like me. They like to watch and learn and take." The shadow marten fell back onto all of his paws, tail swishing still.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 2:17 pm
Yes, yes. He was Gloom. Theo made a note not to ask the thing who, what, where, when, or why it was anymore. He also made a note to run away from the ******** hands.
Swear j— No, wait. He hadn't said that out loud.
"Okay. Bad shadow hands. Good shadow ferret." Arms at his sides, he pinched his thigh through the fabric of the pants he had worn to bed. No dice. "So, how do I wake up?" He remained caught between believing this was a dream and admitting it might be something more. But he still needed help.azuredreams i want to make an 'i am groot' reference so badly stupid theo
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 6:35 pm
"Don't know that," Gloom responded. "Y'just supposed to wake up, I guess." The shadow animal shifted around on the ground. "Y'know this is real, right? Y'really here. It's a dream but y'here."
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 7:27 am
Deep down, he did know. This place was too real, crisp where it should have been floaty. And he'd never had trouble waking up before, even when he used to dream regularly. Usually it was the other way around. Usually he was kicked out right when things started getting good.
"I guess. I think I need proof." It was too much to just believe without it.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 10:01 pm
"C'mere," Gloom went to nudge at the door so that they could go back outside. "They should be gone by now, I'll show y'something. Y'know it's real."
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:59 pm
Theo followed, slowly pulling open the door so that Gloom could leave first. His voice was only a little louder than a whisper. "Sure. Show me."
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:16 pm
Gloom made a chitter that sounded something like thanks, tail swishing as he went outside. They were outside one of the many businesses that were not that far from the college. The shadow creature lead Theo down an alley, pausing near a dumpster. "Put y'hand on the wall," he told Theo. "Gonna teach y'a trick."
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 5:42 pm
It was way less strange to put his hand on a wall than it was to talk to a ferret or run from grasping shadows, so he did as he was told, looking down at Gloom with a minor shrug as he touched the wet brick.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:39 pm
"Picture a warm thing in y'mind," he told Theo. Gloom was sidling up to him, tail curling around the man's leg. "Like fire or the sun. Something hot."
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:32 am
Theo's first thought was Disneyland in August. Bekki's parents had insisted they come down for the weekend, back before the girls made doing anything on such short notice impossible, and he had spent the entire trip vaguely uncomfortable, hair pulled up into a topknot that made him look like some 16-year-old reprobate. The sun had been relentless, and he tried to recall everything about how it had felt now: the sweltering blanket of unmoving air that offered no relief from the heat, his skin so warm he knew he would wind up burned.
He was concentrating so hard that he didn't even notice the fuzzy plume encircling his ankle. Theo stared at his own hand, fully committed to giving this his all in exchange for an extra clip of skeptic's ammunition when it failed.
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 10:37 pm
"Gather it under y'hand, press it into the wall," Gloom told him, his tail still around Theo's ankle. He would feel as if something was trickling into him. Something faint and flowing like silk on skin or smoke over water. When he did so, just as Gloom asked, his hand would flare up as if light was being signed through it. As his hand pulled away from the wall there would be a scorched imprint of his hand left behind.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 6:08 pm
It didn't fail in the end. Theo stood straighter as the relatively pleasant surge of power ran through him, squeezing his eyes shut against the brightness emanating from his palm. He pulled his hand back as soon as the light had dimmed, and he didn't have to wait for the afterimage to fade before he saw the scorch left behind.
He poked at the wall, rubbing at the burn to see if it would come off. "That should've hurt." He glanced down at Gloom. "What's it supposed to prove?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 5:22 pm
"Come back here when y'wake up, it'll be here." Gloom squeezed between Theo's legs, deliberately twisting him up so that when he would move he would fall backwards. "Y'shouldn't be here anymore. Time for y'to wake up." Shadows would envelope Theo as he fell backwards, he would find himself waking up back home in bed. ... and the mark he had burned onto the wall would definitely be there for him to find in Ashdown, far outside of his dreams. Smerdle shadow thievery: gloom has taken some of theo's pocket lint. who knows why. he'll probably never notice.
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