Dream 004 [Nightmare!]

[avorelanche]

Warnings: [Blood, graphic violence, and decapitations.]
Effects: [A slow, building sense of rage and hunger. Strictly optional!]

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[dyausa_pita]

-=just sort of flops to the side when she moves, but jumps to alertness at the crash, electricity cracking around him=-

Wha- What goin on? Argilla?

[avorelanche]

[Argilla doesn't look like she's in a good state. Her breathing is ragged, her entire body is tense, and her arm is still stretched out and shaking from that throw.

Meet your nightmare, Argilla. It's going to be a long-time and uncomfortable companion.]

"Don't know-"

[Her voice is shaky, to match her body.]

"...What the hell was that!?"

[She looks away from where the Dreamberry is laying to where Cielo is.]

[dyausa_pita]

You been dreamin?

-=rubs at his eyes, wide awake now from the rush of adrenaline=-

Dey ain't real, ya? Just your brain doin funny tings.

[avorelanche]

"I've never had a dream like that before."

[Her eyes flick over at the Dreamberry for a moment, and then back to Cielo before she tries to smash the thing into a wall, or something equally rash.]

"I...That bastard Bat was in it. It was like the ship all over again."

[She'd won that fight in her dream but...The phrase 'Pyrrhic victory' instantly flickers up in her mind. She still hadn't been able to prove him wrong about their differences, either.]

[carpo_vita]

[Minato recalls meeting that woman for the basketball game a while back. All he gathered then was that she seemed vasty unfamiliar with much of what happens on modern Earth (she's from a different world entirely, most likely), carries an official air - like what you would expect someone who just returned from years of militairy training, and was strong and agile - a likely potent fighter.

Akihiko mentioned cannibals on the first day that he arrived. He couldn't have guessed, but that dream, as gruesome as it was and as much as his own head pounded, confirmed something for certain now: they are every bit as human as anyone else.

He had to take a moment to clear his head and calm himself before calling out.]

...Argilla-san?

[In English]

[avorelanche]

[It takes her a moment to realize that someone is saying her name, another to figure out it's coming from the Dreamberry, and then one more moment to remember where she'd thrown the thing.

So there's a pause between his call, and getting a response. But once she picks the Dreamberry up, Argilla recognizes the face in the screen. After a moment, a name follows that.]

"...Minato, right?"

[In English]

[carpo_vita]

[..."Right"?

That's in English. D: Time to bust out his Engrish, then. At least it's far more superior to what he listens to.

He nods in confirmation.] It was a bad dream. Are you O-K? [The accent is audible.]

[avorelanche]

[She notices the accent, and looks confused. She's never heard anything like that; it's distinctly different from Cielo's, which is about all she has to base accents off of.]

"I've felt better...Think I'll manage, though."

[And then she realizes that, yes, he's watched her dream. That confusion quickly fades away, replaced by a cautious look. The Embryon's unique upkeep hasn't been well recieved...Although she can't blame these people for their reaction.]

"You...Saw all of that?"

[usas_aurora]

-=quiet for a long time before even trying to respond=-

That is... what happened to him?

[avorelanche]

[It's just as well. Argilla is silent after she hears that question, and realizes what Jinana saw.]

"It's...Not quite what happened. I didn't kill him."

['But I almost wish I had,' her expression says for her.]

"He died when we blew up the ship he was in...I fought him before that, but it...Didn't go so well. What he said was mostly the same, though."

[Her hand clenches around the Dreamberry as she says that, tight enough that her knuckles go white. It says something about how well the object is designed that it hold up against that and getting thrown into walls.]

[usas_aurora]

I am sorry, for what he did to you all.

-=she has no idea how to calm the other woman, Bat is reasonably a sore spot for all of them=-

I blame myself.

[avorelanche]

[She certainly doesn't look much calmer after hearing that. If anything, Argilla seems to bristle when she hears Jinana blame herself. They've talked about this before, but that little detail does nothing to keep her head clear.]

"How the hell can you do that!? He's the one that sold you out!"