Dream | 09
This dream is a particularly strange one. It starts off...a dream about David, it seems like. He's heading down the hall with a stack of folders when he encounters Heat and Sera approaching from the hallway, Heat pushing Sera in a wheelchair towards one of the exam rooms. She's got her stuffed toy of Agni in her lap.
"Hello, Sera. Feeling better today?"
She smiles brightly and nods. "Much better, thank you!"
He...David...smiles as he continues down the hall. He drops the folders off in an office apparently belonging to a Dr. Jenna Angel before opening a door leading into the Junkyard. He watches as Serph investigates the holographic maps and other displays for a moment before speaking.
"Don't worry too much about it. Just increase the forces on the border with Manipura and they'll back off."
Serph looks up and nods before going back to his review.
David closes the door again and turns...only to come face to face with Vayu himself.
"Oh...it's you."
Vayu tilts its head, as if considering whether David would make a decent snack. And then the demon speaks. It is a low, rumbling voice, like wind over the mountains. Ancient and powerful. "You always want what you can't have."
"Excuse me?"
"You want a normal life, like he did. But it will never happen."
David is Gale again now. He ignores the hunger building inside his stomach. "Why not? Who are you to say I can't?"
Vayu laughs, and it is like the force of a tornado. "I am you. And you cannot escape me. You will always feel this hunger..."
He falls to his knees, doubling and grasping his torso in pain.
"You will always have bloodlust in your heart..."
The green light is spreading now, covering him, twisting his body to match the demon's. His leaves peel from his torso, his feet are beginning to mutate.
"And you will never belong with them."
Gale looks up through the pain, and the entirety of Somarium's populace stares back. Look at them. Freaks. Monsters. Cannibals. Demons. We don't want them around. They're nothing but animals.
He can see the others around him, all of them in various stages of partial transformation as well. But his vision quickly fades out as a sharp pain signifies that his head is starting to split in two...
"Get up."
It's a stranger's voice, but compelling. Is it Lupa? No, it's not. It's Snake.
"I said get up. Do you think feeling sorry for yourself is going to make a difference? They're just people. Some will always be afraid. But the others..."
Gale stands up shakily, swaying on one leg.
Lupa is there too now, standing beside Snake. "The more you give, the more you will receive in turn. Remember that."
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*Gale doesn't say a word, just rolls over and turns the Dreamberry off. He's hoping Snake won't see that. :| Or anyone else, for that matter. wtf, self.*
"Hello, Sera. Feeling better today?"
She smiles brightly and nods. "Much better, thank you!"
He...David...smiles as he continues down the hall. He drops the folders off in an office apparently belonging to a Dr. Jenna Angel before opening a door leading into the Junkyard. He watches as Serph investigates the holographic maps and other displays for a moment before speaking.
"Don't worry too much about it. Just increase the forces on the border with Manipura and they'll back off."
Serph looks up and nods before going back to his review.
David closes the door again and turns...only to come face to face with Vayu himself.
"Oh...it's you."
Vayu tilts its head, as if considering whether David would make a decent snack. And then the demon speaks. It is a low, rumbling voice, like wind over the mountains. Ancient and powerful. "You always want what you can't have."
"Excuse me?"
"You want a normal life, like he did. But it will never happen."
David is Gale again now. He ignores the hunger building inside his stomach. "Why not? Who are you to say I can't?"
Vayu laughs, and it is like the force of a tornado. "I am you. And you cannot escape me. You will always feel this hunger..."
He falls to his knees, doubling and grasping his torso in pain.
"You will always have bloodlust in your heart..."
The green light is spreading now, covering him, twisting his body to match the demon's. His leaves peel from his torso, his feet are beginning to mutate.
"And you will never belong with them."
Gale looks up through the pain, and the entirety of Somarium's populace stares back. Look at them. Freaks. Monsters. Cannibals. Demons. We don't want them around. They're nothing but animals.
He can see the others around him, all of them in various stages of partial transformation as well. But his vision quickly fades out as a sharp pain signifies that his head is starting to split in two...
"Get up."
It's a stranger's voice, but compelling. Is it Lupa? No, it's not. It's Snake.
"I said get up. Do you think feeling sorry for yourself is going to make a difference? They're just people. Some will always be afraid. But the others..."
Gale stands up shakily, swaying on one leg.
Lupa is there too now, standing beside Snake. "The more you give, the more you will receive in turn. Remember that."
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*Gale doesn't say a word, just rolls over and turns the Dreamberry off. He's hoping Snake won't see that. :| Or anyone else, for that matter. wtf, self.*