hadriel_logs | Event Log: Dreamwalker

Who: Everyone!
What: The Dreamwalker event
Where: In your comfy bed and your sleepy head.
When: May 16th-26th
Warnings: Good dreams, weird dreams, bad dreams, straight-up nightmares. Please remember to tag for warnings in the header if things are going to be bad!

Have you been having trouble getting a good night's sleep? Tossing and turning, unable to rest those tired eyes? Or maybe you don't sleep at all, and never have. Not to worry! For a little while, you'll have no trouble at all falling asleep - in fact, as night falls, you'll find yourself overwhelmed with exhaustion whether you want to sleep or not. Lay down and rest your weary head, friends. Everyone could use a little extra sleep.

But what will your dreams bring? Something happy, images of a perfect day? Something hopeful, something you've wanted for a long time? Maybe you'll dream of anger, of the face of your worst enemy. Or maybe - just maybe - you'll have a horrific nightmare, and wake screaming, covered in cold sweat.

Not before others have time to see it, though. As you sleep, as you dream, the other residents of Hadriel, friends and enemies and people you've only met once, might find their way into your dreams. Or you might find your way into theirs - and then have to deal with someone's else's nightmares, or hopes, or anger. For the next ten nights, you'll find yourself either a host or a visitor, and no matter how you try you won't be able to stay awake once night falls.

Sweet dreams, Hadriel. Don't let the asshole fear gods bite.

► This log covers May 16th-26th.
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What, you think I'd miss this?

[Clearly not, since he flashes Kate a crooked grin as he picks up the remote and pushes the controls until the copter slowly takes to the air.]

[ she shoots him her own conspiratoral grin and turns to the copter, watching it lift and move the explosives right up to the weak spot.

When it starts hovering in place, she raises her gun, ains, and shoots.

The first bullet lands right on target and the pack explodes with smoke and enough force to shake rubble down below. That there are significantly larger pieces dropping in a perfect stair formation on the rooftop seems a little too appropriate but she'll go with it.

As soon as the smoke clears, Kate bounds up them. ] Fucking finally. [ up top has got to be better than this place, right? ]

[Well, obviously - why else would they be trying to reach beyond the dome?]

Nice shot. What do you think is up there?

No idea. [ she doesn't want to guess, because guesses usually mean dashed hopes. Instead, she runs to the top of the makeshift staircase towards blinding sun.

The sound of traffic crashes over her like a wave and, as her eyes readjust to real light, Kate whips around.

She knows this place, this street, where her clinic is located back in LA. ]

Kate? [ and she knows that voice, that accent. Just beyond the hole they've came out of, a tall young man in a lab coat and scrubs is waving. ] What- where've you been? [ He runs a hand through his sandy blond hair and the smile on her face is so achingly large she feels like her jaw might crack.

But she's home. ]

Long story.

[Mello follows quickly behind her, not quite running up the stairs but definitely not dawdling behind in the underground from which they've now escaped. He blinks hard when he reaches the top and the sunlight-flooded street.]

Is this ... ?

[It looks very much like how he remembers Los Angeles - not quite home for him, but no place ever really was. There were good times in Los Angeles, before he'd been attacked and forced into blowing up his hideout, before he lost the killer notebook along with all of his resources and half of his face.]

Well, I guess what they say about it being a small world really is true.

[ It's a strange place, one she's only spent a month in, and it will never be Wigan or Manchester (the weather is far too nice for that), but it's hers and it has Jon standing in front of her with a cigarette stub in his hand, mid-break. ]

You been here before? [ maybe literally, maybe just in whatever world he comes from. Kate isn't sure, but the specifics aren't really that concerning. Jon glances over at her partner and back to Kate, as if waiting for the introduction. ] Oh, reet. Jon, Mello [ should she know that name? It comes off the tongue so easily and yet- ] and vice versa.

[ Jon holds out a hand to shake with a lopsided, toothy grin. ]

LA? Yeah ... I lived here for a while.

[He squints into the distance, shading his eyes from the sunlight with a gloved hand.]

In a neighborhood like this one, in fact.

[Ah well. No sense dwelling on the past, or why he left LA. He can pretend to be a normal human long enough to shake the other man's hand, at least.]

Good to meet you. How do you two know each other?

She's my boss now. But we used to apprentice at the same place. [ Jon's answer comes easily as he stamps out the cigarette and gestures towards the warehouse. ] Shall we? [ Kate just nods and steps past him, pushing open the steel door that leads to the sterile white and strangely sweet smell of a clinic. The antiseptic was doing its job, despite the unfamiliar scent of it. ]

It been quiet? [ It certainly seems that way right now, as Kate peers over the reception desk at a file sitting there. ]

For the last week, yes. Before that we had a pretty big accident involving acid sprayers. [ He talks about it matter-of-factly and Kate wrinkles her nose at the idea of that scene. Acid powers were always a nightmare.]

Mello, what do you drink? [ apparently satisfied with whatever she was looking at, Kate steps away from the desk. ] We've got water, tea, and coffee. Decaf and not.

[Mello follows them after them into the clinic, and once he realizes what the building is, it sets his teeth on edge. Not what it is on the surface, but what it could mean for him. After the explosion, he'd needed to be careful to avoid clinics or hospitals, lest the police be waiting to apprehend him.]

I'm good, actually - and you seem like you have a lot of work to do here. Maybe I should leave you to it.

[He forces a small smile, taking caution not to let on that anything is wrong.]

[ Kate blinks at that, but- well, didn't he spend time here too? She could understand wanting to do something more exciting than watching her recharge equipment. ] Going to explore? Have fun. [ well, Mello, your lie worked. But there never would have been any police here anyway. ]

Yeah ... there's someone I should probably look up, while I'm here.

[Doesn't he have something he should be doing? Some reason why he wanted to get back to the world? It seems like there is something, but he can't quite put his finger on it. Maybe if he does wander the city for a while, it will come back to him. He gives Kate a goodbye nod and heads back toward the door.]

Event Log: Dreamwalker

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