doesnothappen | IC: Dream Post

IC: Dream Post

The space you are standing in is cold and grey and very still. There is nothing beneath your feet, nowhere to go. You hang for a long moment, in this place with no place, without direction or a proper sense of time, until the light dims...

...and your feet touch ground. Your eyes are closed. When you open them, you find yourself here.

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[fuck]

[also a lot of work. staggering as the dead weight falls on him, rolling him to the sand as gently as he can, straining]

[and just looking down at him for a long, sad moment]

He has all his limbs, at least.

There's a rustling in the jungle to your right.

[you poor dumbass 8(]

[startling slightly, looking over and up]

Mau trudges out of the bush beside you, dragging a man's body as carefully as he can -- it's too heavy to carry. He pays you no attention.

O-oh, Mau...

[let's helping with the dragging then]

Edited 2012-08-26 08:16 (UTC)

He doesn't seem to notice you when you approach, but as some of the weight lifts he stumbles a little, and blinks like he's waking up.

"...Ven..?"

His voice is a hoarse croak.

[doing his best to steady the body as Mau stumbles]

...yeah. It's me.

"How... how are you here?"

He steadies quickly and keeps going.

[soft and frank]

I don't know. Something...guided my heart.

"I thought I was the only one left."

[softly] I know.

[what do you even say to somebody right now]

You're not alone.

[you say mostly by helping them move bodies, really. but he will. as long as it takes. ;;]

It will take hours, but between the two of you, you can send all the bodies into the Dark Current. You may notice that, other than Selenia, none of them wear the faces of the people you saw on the little sandbar, and none of them are from Aather.

[that's...at least vaguely reassuring to Ven, even if it isn't to Mau. and it means he's reliving his memories and not imagining some new awfulness at least. soldiering on for hours, stopping for brief moments to touch or talk to Mau if he looks like he's spacing out too much]

[he's shaking with exhaustion by the time it's done]

Edited 2012-08-26 17:58 (UTC)

So is Mau, but he comes to put an arm around you and lead you up the beach to a makeshift shelter.

"Thank you..."

[hoarse and breathless] Least...I could do.

[collapsing and pulling Mau close if allowed, holding him tight, god I need to hug you so much right now ;;;;;]

He collapses down beside you and slumps against you, easily pulled into that hug.

"Are we... are we dreaming?"

[cradling him, they both stink of death and he doesn't care]

...maybe. Probably. I did...death got me, but then I was still there.

Mau doesn't even notice, and slowly his arms come up around Ven.

"Death... Locaha?! Ven, no, I'm sorry."

[stroking his hair gently]

It gave you time...maybe another you...to get most of them out. We stole so much from him.

"I can tell... you changed something. I can -- I can think."

[squeezing him gently and rocking him a little]

Good. That's good enough for me.

He leans his head against your shoulder, just letting himself be held.

"Are you really in my dream..?"

It...happens, sometimes. It's really me, if that's what you're asking. Here to help you, however it happened.

"But you were hurt..."

It's okay. I'll be all right.

[utter calm assurance; he's pretty worn out, but he's found that core of strength that he discovered when he broke the X-blade, and he's not letting it go]

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