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.

((OOC warnings/notes))

Comments

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[blinks]

--Mau?

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He doesn't respond in the slightest, not even glancing toward you. He just trudges on, dragging the body toward the water.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

Mau!

[going after him, grabbing for his shoulder]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He turns -- his eyes are streaming tears, but even now that you've touched him, he doesn't seem to see you. He looks puzzled for a moment, then turns away again to continue his slow progress.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

Mau, come on!

[we're trying this again 8|]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He spins around this time, and drops the man's shoulders to the sand. His eyes dart around wildly, but he still can't focus on you.

"Hello?"

His voice breaks on the word, and he stands there, breathing hard, staring all around.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[taking his shoulders firmly]

Hey. Mau, it's me.

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

And finally he see you, and pales.

"...Allen?"

Re: The Beach

[performing]

Thank you. Yes, hello. What the bloody fuck is going on.

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He stares at you wordlessly for a long moment, unable to process the fact of your presence.

"...the wave came... I thought I was alone..."

Re: The Beach

[performing]

It'd take a lot more than that to get me.

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

"Can you help me?"

Re: The Beach

[performing]

What d'you need?

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

"I must take their bodies to the dark current."

Re: The Beach

[performing]

... what's that?

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He points toward the gap in the reef... which looks a lot closer than it did when you were walking to the beach.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

So -- like burial?

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He just nods and keeps pulling his sad burden down the beach.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

...

[picking up the little girl he freed, then, and following '-']

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

It will take hours, but eventually the two of you will be able to send all of the bodies into the deep water. You'll recognize some of them -- his friends from Aather, and people you might have seen in his memories, who arrived on the Nation long after the wave...

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[helping '-' but when it's done]

... Not all of those people should've been there.

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

Again, it takes him a long moment to process and respond.

"...what..?"

Re: The Beach

[performing]

This is your home, isn't it? Your Nation.

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

"Yes. You know it is."

Re: The Beach

[performing]

So why were there so many people from Aather here?