[Dreamscape] To sleep

[spandexisyouth]

Characters: Maito Gai and OPEN
Date/Time: September 20th, 21st (if you want other dates that's fine too.)
Location: All in your head.
Rating: G?
Summary: Dreamland, where nothing can hurt you. Maybe. Semi-lucid dreaming.

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[ghost_of_00]

00 was walking with herself. She wasn't comfortable with it... the other-her was staying just out of sight, appearing only in her peripheral vision. Any attempt to look directly at her, and she vanished.

The other her only had a head and wide, staring eyes, saying things that 00 couldn't hear. She wanted the other her to leave her alone... there ought to be only one. One 00. Hurrying through bleak grey corridors and rooms labeled Fred Growth Chamber, Stellaris Research Lab, and equally unsettling concepts, 00 found the one door that was unmarked. Sunlight was coming around the edges--pulling her ID card out of her pocket, she swiped it through the reader and stepped into the park.

"You're here." Her blank tone matched her stare.

My apologies for the lateness

[spandexisyouth]

Gai looked up, staring for a moment at the door that had appeared. Then he smiled at 00. "I am! And you are here as well!" It didn't seem too strange, them just being in the park, though Gai couldn't say how long he had been here.

"Would you like to have a seat with me? I think I can create tea. I am not sure. I have not tried it yet." This whole thing was a little confusing. He'd been trying not to think about it too much. Sometimes if he wanted something, it was there, and sometimes it just wasn't. He focused on a spot next to him, but instead of tea appearing, a giant tortoise wandered out of one shadowy area and into another.

Gai shrugged. "It seems there will not be tea. I am sorry. But you can still join me!"

Not a problem!

[ghost_of_00]

00 answered his question by sitting down beside him, looking curiously at the tree. Edensphere? But that was wrong. This was like... a bonsai; her mind supplied the term from somewhere. A carefully cultivated replica of the real thing. Ornamental. Something for thinking about.

She watched the tortoise as it ambled past, apparently unconcerned with either of them, and looked around again. "I can't see the other me. Did she follow me here?"

[spandexisyouth]

Gai frowned, searching for a moment. "The other you? I do not see anyone else. There are two of you? Or were there two before you came here?"

Carefully he pushed the bonsai-Tree closer to her, since she'd glanced at it. "If you would like to see you may. It has not yet given any of its secrets up, but who knows what more examination will give? I do not want to risk harsh handling, but..." Gai trailed off and shrugged again. It had fascinated him since he'd gotten to this park area. There was much that he couldn't put a finger on, couldn't figure out, but was here nonetheless.

[ghost_of_00]

00 looked behind her, then all around. She couldn't see the floating head; that could be a relief, or it could be cause for concern. "It was a face that looked like mine, but I don't think it was me."

was it

I don't follow you

unless Gai follows Youth

...Oh. There was the face, floating above the tree. "That's her." There was less anxiety though, with Gai here. She looked at the tiny Tree and its islands. "What secrets are you looking for?"

[spandexisyouth]

Gai blinked at the face when it showed up. It looked a little... Well, it looked like an 00 who had been through a great deal of stress. He got a little concerned for 00. What did it mean, that she had it following her? "...Would you like her to go away?" Gai wasn't sure if he had the power to do that here, but he could always ask it to leave. It couldn't hurt.

At the question he considered the Tree in front of him. Surely here it was safe to talk. "A way out for those that wish to go, and a way to stay for those that seek that. Someone untrustworthy said that the top of the tree had secrets and an answer, but I see nothing here and where there is danger I have no reason to believe them."