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[lumenrelegandus]

The man standing in the center is the dreamer.

You know him, or have seen him in past broadcasts, or can't understand why the first person perspective on this forge is not its owner. It's Sirius Black.

Because who, especially himself, could ever identify Remus Lupin with this situation.The stonework etchings at his feet gained in dimension around

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[calamitousnaiad]

I'm... not sure I understand.

[What's happening here, or if this is even real. It seems so full of symbols, too full of meaning not to be a dream but how could that be possible?]

[video]

[lumenrelegandus]

[if he's a bit curt, at least it's clearly not directed at her. The anger is at himself. For her is the ruefulness.]

Do you mean the aspects of my personal life I intended only to share with those concerned, or the phenomenon at large?

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[calamitousnaiad]

... the phenomenon. I'm sorry, but was that a dream?

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[lumenrelegandus]

Yes. It was a dream.

It's never happened to me quite that way before. In the past it's been memories.

On an apparently monthly basis, our forges… of their own volition, thwarting most efforts to prevent them, see into our minds and broadcast what they find there.

If we were not so dependent on them the rest of the month we'd have doubtless destroyed them by now.

Or if it did not leave us all in the same boat.

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[sonvisage]

No, I don't need saving.

[And in the end, no one will choose me after all. If you had to choose, Remus, it would be her, and I wouldn't blame you. Except I would.]

But someday, that woman will.

[No, she does not mean Tonks.]

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[lumenrelegandus]

[doesn't know whether to respond to this. Even though she initiated: whether it still mightn't be breaking a promise.

She hasn't switched off. And she could. So he says, so many emotions cramming themselves into three syllables:]

Need saving?

[first time he's heard anyone speak of doing anything to Lestrange-somehow her designation is clear to him-other than punishing.

…Except himself.

A while ago.]

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[sonvisage]

I can't even save myself from myself. I don't think you'd have better luck if you tried.

[Moving on to Sirius.]

Did he die at the end? It looks as if we both...

[Nope. Not shutting off the Forge just yet.]

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[lumenrelegandus]

[he hunches forward around the pain in his chest, that is the unspoken: If I'd tried?

Not what he'd been asking. But leaves it too.]

We typically wake up before we can die in dreams.