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The Dream Within A Dream

Aug 26, 2011 02:04

The Dream Within A Dream, Ten/Rose, Pg-13.
Beyond the forest, and the sea. The wolf will wait for thee.
Her hand, unfurled-politely, like a flower she sometimes imagines-is reaching for a doorknob, which is attached to a door, that opens to a place she does not know. 3,170 words.
Notes: I'm back to my usual prose. Feels good to be home.

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Comments 8

isawthephoto August 26 2011, 07:28:39 UTC

Oh. What. The. Hell.

This is gorgeous and insane and also a bit heartbreaking, and the words you use and everything and guh. You've effectively turned my brain to cat litter.

I kept thinking Inception every time you mentioned a dream within a dream, by the way. I don't know if that was intentional, but it fit the mood rather well.

boxed August 26 2011, 14:54:06 UTC

Oh, wow, thank you! And I'm so glad you picked up a bit of Inception in there-it actually inspired me to do this, and I was listening to the soundtrack as I wrote! :)

zazie11 August 27 2011, 05:54:36 UTC

He loves that she loves to learn. She loves that he loves to teach her. They are giddy, smiling with their future so clearly in front of them. But there are many futures. And from beyond the horizon, the wind is picking up.

AND

She stares at him, and she can see all of him-thin, translucent images layer themselves over his face. His faces. So many of them. She laughs, because she can see his hair, white and black and gray and brown and gold, all at once, everything at once. "Like doors," she says, nonsensically.

Love!

boxed August 29 2011, 03:10:34 UTC

Thank you! :D

sapphire_child August 27 2011, 14:42:33 UTC

There are so many infintesimal layers to this. SO utterly detailed and gorgeous. gfhdjghsgjkl.

boxed August 29 2011, 03:12:25 UTC

Oh gosh, thank you so, so much! I was hoping it wouldn't be overladen or confusing or something of the sort - and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ♥

sapphire_child August 29 2011, 09:16:01 UTC

It was confusing - but that was aprt of the charm of it, you were constantly working your brain trying to keep up and it was amazing.

miranda_wave August 30 2011, 03:12:43 UTC

So, so good. So very Bad Wolf.

I actually watched Inception for the first time last night, so of course that popped straight into my head. But this is a really different way of looking at divergence: did the Doctor leave Rose at Bad Wolf Bay? Did they never come there? Or did she never leave?

I love how you got that in there, right in the middle.