⚔ // once upon a dream

[discutio]

[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.]

Comments

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[See? They totally know what they're doing.]

Huh?

[He looks a little out of it - Sena looks around blearily before his eyes settle on Chelsea.]

Um...fine. Just a little tired...

[And more than a little reluctant to sleep, honestly. He's trying hard not to think about it, but...everything was just a little Much today.]

[niceoppai]

Yeah... [sigh] Guess it was awful on everyone. Sounded like Darkrai only knows how to do good by messing people up and hurting 'em.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

I guess so. I mean...I guess that's just who they are?

[Sena's not sure if it's his state of tiredness or just...everytthing else that makes him say his next words, but the longer he thinks about them, the more he thinks that they're genuine.]

It's...kinda hard to be mad at them, though...

[niceoppai]

Yeah. Even if I just... It showed me my home planet. Ignis and Noctis saw theirs how it was when things went all wrong, Camilla saw someone important to her all de-spirited, and Bucky saw goats acting like spiritless Pokémon. We thought it might be visions of how things would be if Cyrus got his way, like a warning. Or worse, how things already were.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Really?

[At that, Sena's interest perks up.]

That's different from the dream I saw...I mean, mine felt like a warning too, but it was...

[He hesitates, biting his lip. Thinking about it...it's not painful, but it's...

It's unsettling.]

[niceoppai]

...'S it okay if I ask? I mean, I don't wanna pry. These were pretty rough.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

No, it's fine, it's just...

[He taps his chin, frowning.]

I saw...my home too, but everything was fine. It was normal, but...some things were off...It's hard to explain just how, but it was.

[That doesn't sound too bad. So why is he so out of it?]

[niceoppai]

Off, huh? Sounds kinda disturbing, the way you say it.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Um...it was really just small things.

[How did it go...]

Like, it was my school, right? But the posters on the walls were all wrong, and the hallways were empty even though it was dismissal time...and I could still hear people talking even though no one was there.

[Yeah that sounds like some haunted building bullshit, okay.]

[niceoppai]

That is pretty creepy. Like, the opposite of what's happening here.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Umhm. I even found my team eventually, and even they were acting like nothing was wrong.

[Now, that doesn't sound right on some level.]

[niceoppai]

Wonder what it means. That you're scared of not being able to get things back to normal?

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

No...I think it might have been something else.

[He sounds absolutely certain of that. Huh.]

[niceoppai]

Huh... Must be something really important. Sorry. It was tough on everyone.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Yeah...

[He deflates a little.]

I guess all we can do is...keep going, I guess? Now that we've seen what could have happened...we need to make sure it doesn't.

[niceoppai]

Yeah... Well, it's terrifying, isn't it? We don't even know where to start. But we gotta do something.