.oo6 «[Dream] I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad...

[usas_aurora]

Warnings: [Blood, graphic violence, death]
Effects: [tremendous amounts of physical pain, starvation, regret, and frustration]
Language: English

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[avorelanche]

[Argilla has experienced hunger before. Both in the form of a slight but persistent pang, and as terrible void that was ready to swallow her, if it meant satisfying itself.

When she watches Jinana's dream, Argilla realizes with a horrible lurch in her gut that those things are nothing compared to this. It was bad enough watching when it happened, but now...Somehow, she's able to feel it for herself. Hunger, instinct...And Jinana's regret. Somehow, that's the worst of them all, and hearing it lance through her head helps Argilla push out any traces of hunger when the dream ends.

It doesn't keep her voice from shaking, though.]

"Ji...Jinana? Please respond...Are you alright?"

[usas_aurora]

-=hesitates a moment when she hears that voice, she hadn't realized the device had been recording her. She steels her self, taking a breath before returning to pick up the dreamberry, looking down at the worried face=-

I'm here, Argilla. I am fine.

[avorelanche]

[Argilla breathes out when she hears Jinana's voice, not knowing that she was holding her breath until then. She still looks a bit shaky on the Dreamberry screen, but seeing that Jinana is there, still in control, helps.]

"Good. I was worried when I saw..."

[She trails off when she says that and shakes her head, because that is not the right word for what she just experienced.]

"...I felt some of what happened, when I watched your dream."

[usas_aurora]

I did not realize it was recording.

-=sighs softly=-

It is not something I would wish on anyone.

[justwantsafety]

*and it's not like he can't relate, from when he first got to Som, either -- only, without quite understanding what was happening, and the terror of being tracked down by the Embryon again, he didn't exactly get to process the whole thing very well before he finally woke up again at Washu's and calmed back down. He understands it better now, at least.*

*quiet* Sorry....

[usas_aurora]

-=wrapped up in her blankets again, but sitting up in her bed=-

For what, Harley?

[justwantsafety]

*quiet, but he can't really figure out how to answer that. He's sad that she felt like that? That she had to have anything to do with the thing that that was, at the end? That she had such an awful dream in the first place, whether or not it was based in reality, like his mostly seemed to be?*

....

*just shakes his head, hair getting a little messier under the blanket for it -- he's lying in a tent of his bedding, at the moment.*

[usas_aurora]

Dreams cannot hurt us.

-=she said as much reminding herself as for him=-