Dream Effects (optional: Familial love followed by overwhelming failure and despair
Warnings: pretty big .hack//GU spoilers, if that matters?
Music plays softly in the background as the dream starts. A
girl sits in a rocking chair in the middle of a large, white room, a large book in her lap. She rocks and reads quietly for a long moment before large, black bubbles appear in the room, small at first and then growing larger until they consume everything around them. The girl falls through emptiness and lands in a hospital bed, unconscious and connected to a mess of wires and tubes steadily beeping to prove she still lives.
Ovan -- though slightly
different from how he appears in Somarium -- stands in the door of the hospital, silently watching over her for a long moment. Those black bubbles from earlier appear around his left arm. He looks down at himself and the scarf around his mouth slips enough to show the clear surprise on his face. As much as he wants to control them, they grow once again, going for both of them this time. Everything fades into nothingness, but the noise fades and he shouts once before the dream becomes nothing but bubbly static.
"AINA!"