Event Log: Dreamwalker the Second

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Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the Dreamwalker part 2 event
Where: In your dreams
When: October 14th-20th (the second log will go up on Oct 23rd, please keep the two weeks of the event separate!)
Warnings: All different kinds of dreams falling under the umbrella of Delight, Rage, Sorrow, and Hope.

This time, the weird stuff doesn't happen when you're awake- as a matter of fact, your waking hours are the normal ones. That's because you're forced to sleep by some unknown entity, getting more and more exhausted by the moment as night falls. Better make sure you're always around a soft pillow.

Once asleep, it doesn't get any less weird- your dreams will be influenced by one of the four gods that make up the first week. Something to make you smile, something to make you angry- or something that reminds you of your deepest regret or most vulnerable hope, they're all things that you're dreaming about now for some reason, no matter how hard you may try to pull away from them.

To make matters more complicated, there are others intruding on your dreams who definitely don't belong there, and while they may seem like manifestations at first, it becomes clear that these others are actually the consciousness of other members of Hadriel, getting some top quality exposure to your angriest, happiest, most sorrowful moments. Hope it doesn't get awkward when you see them tomorrow...

► This log covers October 14th-20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you die in dreams you don't die in real life, but if you somehow die in real life anyway, please let us know here.

Comments

mello | open | will match prose or brackets

[torrefied]

there's one for the sorrow and two for the joy and three for the girls and four for the boys. (sorrow, obviously.)

You're in a garden. It's a small garden, the kind people keep in their yards; this one is attached to a small home, in an old city, something European but not immediately familiar. There are three figures in the garden when you approach: there's Mello, clothed in black as always, carefully pulling weeds from the bushes; near him, kneeling on the ground is a woman, not much older than him, blonde like him, the same blue eyes, the same cheekbones, a kind smile on her face; the third is another woman, not like the other two, someone you may recognize from Hadriel, wearing a skeleton outfit that looks entirely out of place, sitting in a garden chair with a cup of tea.

When you draw close enough, the blonde woman looks up at you, doesn't recognize you but doesn't need to. Even if you're a stranger, her smile doesn't falter.

"I'm very proud of my son," she says, glancing to Mello.

The other woman blows gently on her cup of tea, follows the blonde woman's gaze to Mello, then looks up at you.

"I wasn't always proud of my son," she says, "but I always believed in him."

[notimpervious]

The memories come back to her in a flash that only dreams can grant: their false lives, her false family, the brilliant son who broke the rules because-- She never did find out why. Perhaps he never felt challenged. Perhaps in their false life, she was distant, too involved in her work. Brennan vows right then to never be too busy for Christine or Booth or anyone she loves.

As for now... she knows the false Brennan's story, but not the first woman's, so it's her she addresses.

"Is your son... Is he like he was in the false world?"

Because if he is, then perhaps she can begin to understand why they were made into a family by their abductors.

[wormintheglass]

Well. This is new. Whose dream is this Bianca's wandered into?

She sets that aside. This is too delicious an opportunity to waste wondering about the anomalous Dr Brennan; so she smiles at them both and answers them both with an air of sympathetic understanding.

"What else would a mother do? And he is worthy of your faith."

Bianca finds, somewhat to her surprise, that she's speaking the truth. She may find Mello hilariously immature in some ways, but she enjoys him. He's a worthy opponent, and that is almost better than a friend.