IC: Dream Post

[doesnothappen]

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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Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*and Josh smiles, and raises his hand.

and the pressure holding that ball of nitrogen plasma vanishes, unleashing the power and fury of a tiny star inside Locaha's belly.*

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

The darkness explodes into sound and brilliant light. The sea boils instantly, erupting from Locaha in torrents of superheated fog, tearing him apart, blasting his wings open, propelling you up and out. It's impossible to see just what becomes of the God of Death; he's lost in the blinding, deafening rush of cloud and white energy as you're thrown toward the surface.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*riding that wave of steam and energy, keeping steady, and clawing for open air as soon as he breaks the surface*

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

You burst through the surface and the light remains -- through the rising clouds of steam you can see the sun, nearly at its zenith. Waves wash outward from the pleat at the point of your emergence, but nothing else follows you out of the sea... and for the moment, the world is mostly a blur of brightness.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*just going to hover for a moment, breathing hard -- even at the height of his powers in a dream, that was no easy fight.

but damn, that felt good.*

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

Slowly, as the fog clears, you can make out the islet below you -- it must have been swamped, but your wards held, and the survivors are waving up to you -- and there's a canoe on the horizon, approaching far more quickly than it should under human power.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*landing on the island, then, as the wards fade; he barely manages to stay standing, but you know, whatever*

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

Daphne runs over to you and slips a hand under your elbow. "Maybe you ought to sit down."

That canoe is still skimming through the water toward you, with Mau in the stern.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*sitting down is only mostly voluntary, but he does, yes, nodding gratefully to Daphne*

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

She helps guide you down and then kneels beside you, tucking her skirt under her knees. "He'll be here in a moment, and then we'll go. But I have something for you."

She presses her palm over the back of your hand and strength flows into you; life and warmth, carried on a sensation of buoyancy and powered by deep, abiding love.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*...ducks his head and smiles*

Thanks.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

"I should be the one thanking you. He's substantially less impossible about some things since you turned up."

The fog is clearing, blown away by a clean sea breeze, and the sky is a perfect blue.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*looking up at that, the last battle-tension leaving him*

I try.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

"And a good job you do, too."

The canoe beaches itself on the little island, and Daphne and the rest of the crowd... goes. They are simply no longer there. But Mau is leaping down onto the sand and running towards you, a look of wonder on his face.

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*waves at him*

Hey.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

He skids up and drops to his knees in the sand beside you.

"Hey yourself! What happened here? I was running, and then... everything changed."

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

...I'm pretty sure I won.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

He stares at you in blank incomprehension.

"Won... what?"

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

Against Locaha.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

His eyes widen.

"You fought Locaha?!"

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

I wasn't going to just let him kill everyone on the island.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

There's a beat, filled with Mau being utterly flabbergasted.

"...you did tell me you were going to help me punch him in the face."

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

*grins a bit*

I don't know if punch is exactly the right word, but yeah.

Re: The Shining Path

[doesnothappen]

You're getting draped on.

"Wow. Is that what brought back the sun?"

Re: The Shining Path

[orange_sun]

I think so, yeah.

*100% okay with that*