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[feathered_earth]

That

Why d

This happened for... five nights last time, didn't it? So there's three more to go. I think.

What's in coffee, anyway?

[ooc: Someone got Tatsu's dream last night. :( ]

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[ambitious_fire]

Are you okay?

[feathered_earth]

I'm all right. Just tired.

[ambitious_fire]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[live_ringer]

"This" being...?

And... coffee's in coffee. Ground beans and hot water. Sugar and cream, too, if that's what you prefer.

[feathered_earth]

Getting other people's dreams.

Well I meant what makes it work for keeping you awake. But I guess that's like asking what makes any kind of food "work."

Wait, beans?

[live_ringer]

So it's confirmed that they're other people's and this has happened before? That's... a bit of a comfort and a little unsettling all at once.

Oh. That'd be the caffeine, then. It's in other foods like chocolate, though I doubt the cocoa that was coming down would wake you up the same way.

Yeah. Of a sort. Very hard beans.

[feathered_earth]

Yeah. Last time it did was in May. It's not too pleasant, but if this is like then it should be over soon enough.

Yeah, cocoa usually is good for getting to sleep. So caffeine is like the vitamins, the things in food you can't see?

Wow. I wonder who came up with that.

Why yes, I am referencing Klatchian coffee

[stonyfaced]

I don't think caffeine can keep you awake for three nights in a row, Cara, and when it does, it goes too far the other way around. Best just to get as full a sleep as you can manage and make the best of it.

Out through the other side of sobriety eh?

[feathered_earth]

But last ni

[thinks better of that and crosses it out.]

I meant for staying awake in the daytime. But I'll just try counting chocobos tonight and see if that helps.

[ooc: derp *fixes what I meant to write* Obvs I need sleep too :|b ]

You got it!

[stonyfaced]

Got a bad dream, did you?

[Pause for thinking. He knows somewhere inside his heart that he ought to be asking "do you want to talk about it" but really doesn't want to go through with it. Time for the easy way out!]

If you did, just be grateful it wasn't the one you were born with.

And burns through metal pots

[feathered_earth]

Not bad. I just don't like having something that belongs to someone else in my head. There isn't much we can do about it except wait for it to stop, though.

[Talking to him about it would probably be awkward as heck anyway.]

I kinda liked that dream, actually.

[codename_potato]

Are you alright, Cariisu?

[feathered_earth]

[It takes her a moment to answer because she's torn between sadness that he doesn't remember Tatsu and... Cariisu.]

I'm okay. It's just I had the dream of someone who isn't here anymore.

[codename_potato]

Were they important to you?

[feathered_earth]

Yeah. He was.