it's all a dream

[rosestolilies]

Characters: Anyone who wants to participate!
Date: Mid-event.
Summary: All of these individual dreams have combined into one mass dream that the characters have found themselves wandering around in. And it's less than pleasant.
Warnings: Possible violence.

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ELEANOR

[cagemyhappiness]

[Suddenly, there is the warm heat of something living under your fingertips and the sensation of a gentle, undulating movement- up, down, upagain, smooth and subtle and coming in rolling, dreamy crests. Open your eyes and there is only red. Miles of it. Acres of red feathers, you'll realize soon enough, rippling in the breeze.

The sky is a bright blue above, utterly cloudless; but if you look behind, there are stormheads in the distance. Growing smaller, being abandoned. You're on a massive bird flying toward the sun, as eventually becomes apparent when the tips of the enormous wings breach your line of sight in a distant, curving arc. There's the feeling, faint but there, of leaving unhappiness behind- all sadness, all pain. Now, on this ride, there's only peace.

Eleanor is nearby. Sprawled out on her back, eyes half-closed, a tiny dark-haired child dressed only in a white shift. Her birdcage is gone, and there's a small smile on her face.]

[fallenfreelancr]

[Well this is new. Maine's not sure what's more perplexing, the fact that she's a giant bird or the feeling of peace (the feeling altogether alien to her).]

[She feels the small, slight weight of her passenger and cranes her head back to eye the girl with a glinting gold eye, giving a shrill, curious caw.]

[cagemyhappiness]

[She sits up, feeling both the gaze and the shift in movement, meeting the birdy stare with the same small smile.]

Isn't this better?....nothing hurts anymore.

[fallenfreelancr]

[Maine seems to consider this, turning her feathered head back forwards so she can see where she's going. It's true, it doesn't hurt, there's no feelings of crushing hopelessness, no gaping void that the AIs left behind when they shattered her mind. Just peace.]

[She almost doesn't know what to do with it.]

[Then, she gives another, more pleasant whirr, and tucks her great wings in for a dive. Better hold on, Eleanor! Maine's curious to see what she can do!]

[cagemyhappiness]

[She's startled for a moment at the sound and new motion, but the unsettled feeling passes quickly; this is her dream, after all, and there's no room for sadness. Not here, in this imagined have. Eleanor only digs in with her fingers into the feathery back, anticipation making her heart beat faster.]