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[FIN] Fearing the Future (Dream Weaver and Strange Land)

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lostandtold

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:57 pm


User Image When Strange Land dreamed, he dreamed of heavy air, thick vines draped around trees, and solid ground. He dreamed of leaves the size of a foal, bright-colored fruit, and the buzzing, droning, and chirping of hundreds of insects.

And now he dreamed of sacs. Six pulsating sacs, so opaque he couldn't see through them to the foals he knew were growing inside. He circled them, catching a glimpse of what might have been a purple head here, a black leg there, the outline of a tiny hoof against the sac.

They were his -- he knew that instinctively. But he didn't know where they were, or what might be happening, and he worried, helplessly, about their futures. Would they grow to be strong does and bucks? Would they become swift, strong, clever, and good-hearted? Or would they become vicious, close-minded, and petty? Would they be eaten by crocodiles, or sink into bogs?

"Swamp," he said aloud, pacing around them still, "I pray that my young will grow to become kimeti worthy of their stature, kimeti who will contribute to the good of all."
PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:22 pm


User Image Drifting through the fields of maybes and could-have-beens, Dream Weaver felt an odd sort of peace. She had always been a dream interpreter, but now she was a dream walker. Well, walking being a general term. She'd usually just drift where ever the current would take her, since she didn't have an iota of control.

She was beginning to be able to feel the boundaries between one dream and the next. There was a curious tugging feeling, like walking through a spider web. Colors would sometimes change, and scenery too.

It was after she felt the third spiderweb that she noticed she was not entirely alone. The air in this dream was heavy, and the vines dangling from the trees were thick, above the solid ground (which was not always solid in dreams, she had noticed).

A buck stood before her, gazing at the larvae that would become kimeti, like her, but not like, not anymore. The buck seemed to be obsessing over them, as such it was probably his dream. He confirmed it by speaking, which let her know that this was a dream-but-not-dream, where elements of his true life had slipped through the barriers between that world and this.

She was her soul right now, a moth of brown and cream. It was easiest to drift this way, and to pass unnoticed. But this buck had asked for help, and she was eager to give it.

She brushed against his body with her own, blessing the buck with the fortitude and grace required to raise kimeti worthy of the Swamp. Silently floating to the larvae, she alighted on each in turn, and a slight glowing around the foals inside was the only indicator that something had changed, but what that something was was still up to them.

Satisfied with her work, Dream Weaver drifted past the sacs and into the cobwebby-separation of the next, the ethereal pull tugging her ever onward.

[.Lady of Shalott.]

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:33 pm


Strange Land had been so distracted that he barely noticed when a brown-and-cream moth drifted out from the vines. When it brushed against him, a feathery, delicate touch, he turned his head, finally noticing her. Her plain colors stood out all the more against the strange brightness of the world of his dreams, and he watched in wonder as it alighted on each of the delicate sacs.

When it vanished into the vines once more, Strange Land took a deep breath, held it, then let it out slowly. He felt -- more. More what, he wasn't sure; more strong, more alert, more able, something.

But as he watched the glow, pulsing delicately through the membranes of the sacs, he knew that the Swamp had answered his prayer.
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