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[marrymarajade]

Characters:  Ben (marrymarajade ), Paladin (mythgravenblade ), Reed (heretic_hamlet ), and Rain (notpissedoff )
Date/Time: April 29
Location: The Fourth Floor
Rating: PG-13? I'll edit it as needed.
Summary: These four are each shown something.

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[notpissedoff]

That was... a memory? Ben's - the man had been quite a bit younger, but still recognizable even without that name having been spoken clearly. The scene seemed more akin to a dream than a memory though, from Rain's perspective, with the voices in the wind and two suns in the sky and the convenient bubble of calmer air around the boys. It felt too surreal.

A very vivid hallucination, perhaps. The result of 'dust fever' or whatever it had been called. Ben had wandered out into the desert in a delirium, his mind fried by the heat, had hallucinated the whole thing, and had been found by the other Ben; that was the explanation that made the most sense to Rain, and so it was what he settled on.

As the scene - and the oppressive heat - faded away, he shifted slightly and glanced at Ben out of the corner of his eye. The man didn't seem bothered by any of what they'd all just seen... was he smiling?

Rain hmph-ed softly. "No wonder you wanted to leave that place." It was his imagination, he knew, but he felt the compulsion to brush sand out of his clothing and hair. He settled for scratching his head.

[marrymarajade]

"I did," Ben said quietly. He remembered his dream. "Very badly. I thought I was trapped there."

He exhaled slowly, looking out at the static without really seeing it. "But it was good to see it again, even like this."