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[faithful_slayer]

Faith fell asleep in the bar last night, and dreamed.

Two dreams.

One has given her a considerable amount of hope. The second has shaken her up.

Which is why she's sitting at the bar, clutching a cup of coffee, and has not even noticed the piece of cake with a single candle sitting in front of her.

It's her birthday, you see.

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[thelastearthman]

"Faith? Are you alrright?"

[faithful_slayer]

Faith looks up at him, blinking a little.

She can't tell him what she suspects her second dream means. She can't.

The first, however...

"...did I ever tell you that Slayers have prophetic dreams?"

[thelastearthman]

He shakes his head.

[faithful_slayer]

"I fell asleep here, last night, in front of the fire. And I saw Nita, but she didn't notice me at first, and she said...she said 'Where there's life, there's hope, so we've all got that, anyway.'"

There's a beat, while Faith clutches her coffee.

"They're alive."

[originalmarvel]

"Faith?"

There is huggage.

[faithful_slayer]

"Billy. Hey."

There is return huggage.

"What's up?"

[originalmarvel]

"Just missed you and been worried about you and all my friends. Seems as if there is always soemthign new here... and ... I get worried."

He grins at her a little as he stands, having gained another inch somewhere.

[faithful_slayer]

"...you grew again. Stop that."

Faith's lips twitch faintly.

"I'm all right. Just...things."

[the_antiangst]

"You're ignoring your cake."
As Angel knows Faith, she's not much of one to ignore cake. So something's not right.
"More of the same stuff, or something new?"

[faithful_slayer]

"What cake?"

Faith blinks at Angel, then, seeing the cake, "...oh. Is it the 19th already? Uhm, the same stuff."

[the_antiangst]

And so, there is hugging. "You usually get cake on the 19th?"

[faithful_slayer]

"Birthday," Faith explains to his shoulder.

[astral_brat]

"You have cake too!"

Ben grins at her after a slurp of his milkshake -- he's had a bite of his cake already and has icing all round his mouth.

Naturally.

"Is it a party for me?" Pause. "...or is it your lifeday too?"

[faithful_slayer]

Faith double-takes, and then notices the cake.

"...is it...birthday. My birthday, yes. Yours too?"

[astral_brat]

Ben nods, tilting his head a little. "I'm ten! But Jacen says I still can't have a lightsaber yet."

Woe.

"Are you okay? If it's your lifeday you're supposed to be happy, y'know."

[faithful_slayer]

Faith smiles. "You do look a little young for a lightsaber. And yes, I'm fine. Just having some strange dreams."

[rebelheartalien]

Michael wanders in from Antar, looking a little better - Val came and took over some of the workload, and everything helps.

He gets coffee of his own, and then eyes Faith with some concern.

"You okay?"

[faithful_slayer]

"Michael. Hey."

Faith brightens a little.

"Yeah, actually. Uhm, I was hoping to run into you...do you know if Nita can visit people's dreams?"

[rebelheartalien]

"I... don't think she ever mentioned it to me if she can, but that doesn't mean she can't."

[faithful_slayer]

"Hm. I fell asleep here, last night, and I think...at least I hope...she wandered into mine."