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⚔ // once upon a dream
[You all know the drill by now. Ignis and Camilla have taken over the nearest kitchen, and there's going to be food in the Pokemon Center soon enough; a warm and comforting vegetable curry. Highwind's even out now, welcoming any and all who might need a large cloud bird to hug after everything that was.]
[It's been a long night. Everyone needs a good meal and a long rest, and luckily one of those things is being seen to immediately.]
[It's been a long night. Everyone needs a good meal and a long rest, and luckily one of those things is being seen to immediately.]
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[Jake will come over and sit nearby if she'll let him; it's been a long day, really, and he doesn't blame her for being kind of...this. If she needs to be this for a while, she can, it's not like he's going to judge.
He's got Hlača out with him for the time being, resettling the Scrafty in his lap while he gets himself sorted out; god only knows where Albert wandered off to, but it's not like this area is less safe than anywhere else.]
You look like you're having a hard time. You gonna be okay?
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...I didn't have a very good nightmare.
[It's a funny thing to say, but it's the truth - what she saw was horrid, and she's having a lot of trouble getting it out of her head.
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Did I ever tell you about Kylo Ren?
[The words come out before she's able to rein them in, as if she said them by compulsion rather than by choice; his name feels strange on her lips, foreign, and she realises she...hasn't ever really spoken about this part of her life, to anyone, in Sinnoh and not.
...maybe starting now will help the nightmare fade.]
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[...]
Or her, I guess. Not sure if any of that's a girl's name, but you never know.
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He's a 'him'.
[It takes a moment for her to start talking again; apparently, the answers to all her questions cannot be found in her curry, so she will eventually stop staring at it. When she does, her gaze is fixed firmly on the wall.]
He's...
[...how to even start to explain this-]
...an enemy, of mine, I suppose would be the best way to put it. In my dream, I found two of my friends - one of them Finn - dead, killed violently by him. His weapon, it...it leaves unique scars, so I know it was him. I also know it was just a nightmare, but...
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...the last time I saw him, he'd...made me this offer, he wanted me to....
[-seriously, how does she explain all the complexities of this without getting too deep in Jedi theory-]
...to leave our respective parties - who are fighting - and create our own...order, I suppose. Together. We'd opened up to each other; more than I've ever done with another person. I feel like I understood him.
[Shifting her eyes back to her food, Rey pokes an errant piece of carrot.]
But I couldn't accept his offer. We...didn't part on good terms.
[To put it mildly. Sighing, Rey shifts, actually facing Jake this time.]
The nightmare just...seems like something he could actually do, that's all. I know he's not in a good state right now, so...I'm just...
[blaming myself]
...not sure what to do, I suppose.
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If that's the sort of shit he does, I can see where you didn't want to accept his offer. Is he one of those First Order guys?
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[...]
...he's the leader. Supreme Leader, if you want the official title.
[...yeah let's just. say the break-up didn't go very well and things are messy, um
fuck her life, Jake.]
He killed the previous one when he threatened me.
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[NONE OF THIS IS HOW YOU GET A GIRL???]
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...although those comments have clearly amused her, despite the...everything.]
That's not how I'd describe him, but...it does work.
['Kylo Ren' and 'dating' does...send her thoughts down a path she's not really in the right headspace to consider so we will move on-]
The...offer, it...required him to be quite vulnerable, so...I can understand why he's upset.
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[...HOPEFULLY HE IS NOT ACTUALLY AS FUCKED UP AS SIMMONS WAS, you probably don't want to hear about how fucked up Simmons was - ]
I can get where that sort of shit would shake you up, though.
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[She's not quite sure what the phrase 'fucked up' means, but she can make what she thinks is a rather accurate guess.
...it's also weirdly fun to say; clearly she's been hanging out with you for too long, Jake.]
He's also unpredictable and driven by his rage, so...that's why it has shaken me up, yes. I wouldn't put it past him to go after my friends if he can't find me.
[Sighing, Rey places her curry on the floor. At least she's managed to eat a decent amount of it.]
But there's nothing I can do while we're here, so...I'm trying not to think about it. I'll fall to pieces if I dwell on it too long.
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[...]
...this is going to sound insane, but...what with everything Cyrus has done, do you think time might be passing at a different speed here in Sinnoh? Sometimes I like to think about...you know, that maybe time isn't moving so quickly back home.
It...comforts me.
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[Mnnngh, words.]
I guess I'm thinking that if his gods brought us here, they control time and space. Who's saying they can't just...put us back where they got us?
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[It...has potential, doesn't it? Rey can feel herself getting excited.]
Perhaps in exchange for freeing them from Cyrus' influence, they might send us back home, as if we'd never left!
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...it would be perfect. We wouldn't have anything to worry about, at least in terms of our homes.
[...as long as she doesn't think too much about how attached she's gotten to her Pokemon, um]