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[substrictus]

[A yawn is the first thing that sounds as a sleepy Oz appears on the screen a moment later, sporting bedhead and looking a bit disheveled. Guess who woke up from his sleep coma?]

...Morning.

Uh... [He blinks a few more times, trying to rub the sleep out of his eyes as he yawns again] I guess I was more tired than I thought I was.

Did I miss

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[nightraysewerat]

Does anything important really happen around here anyway?

[He looks bored, really. That's the only reason he's bothering with Oz, at the moment.]

[substrictus]

Yep~!

A few months back we had this whooooole thing with a flood and then there was some stuff with a Dreamwalking thing if I remember right~

[nightraysewerat]

I heard about the flood, and saw some of the dreamwalking...

[He shrugs his shoulders.]

Do they really feel significant to you, these events? The things that happen here?

[substrictus]

Huh?

Yeah. Of course they do. [A pause and he hesitates briefly]

Where did that come from?

[nightraysewerat]

But we're just dreams too, or so that person claiming to be a guardian claimed. So why?

[substrictus]

We may be just... dreams, but what we experience still is real here. We still feel pain, think and even sleep, don't we?

Simple dreams can't do that.

[nightraysewerat]

But what I feel or do isn't what matters.

[It never has been.]

It's not important. I wouldn't want to make you think so hard, you'll have a headche.

[substrictus]

I'm not going to get a headache from any of this.

I can take it.

[In other words: he's stubborn and doesn't want to give up on this]

[nightraysewerat]

You don't understand anything.

[He sounds almost disgusted.]

There's only one person who could make it matter.

[substrictus]

That's not true.

[His own tone shifted; became darker. Almost annoyed in nature]

Yeah? The way you say it, I'd have to guess it would be Gil?

[nightraysewerat]

[He looks away, as if not even dignifying that with an answer.]

[substrictus]

...I knew it.

I know I wouldn't mind Gil here either so I know how it is.

[nightraysewerat]

Wouldn't mind. Wouldn't mind????

[The anger in his voice is sudden and all-encompassing.]

That's the difference between you and me.

[substrictus]

It's not that I don't want Gil here. Don't assume anything.

[A touch of slight bitterness lines those words]

I just... having him here in this kind of dream world. Is that really what you want?

[nightraysewerat]

...

[It wouldn't matter, would it? It doesn't matter that they're here.

But it's the same fight as always, the same argument with himself between wanting Gilbert with him and wanting Gilbert to be safe and happy.]

It's no matter dangerous than our world.

[He sounds like a petulant child.]