[dream 06] be sure that all my love's for you [week 5, day 1]
Lelouch, wheel me over there. Nunnally's pointing towards a patch of grass seemingly like any other patch of grass, but you comply, because Nunnally always knows what she's looking for.
She's still pointing as you guide her wheelchair (which glides quite smoothly, for some reason, even over the grass) over and bend to pick up what she had sensed in the grass - a paper flower, which she unfolds in her lap and refolds into a paper crane.
That's the last one, Lelouch, she says, and you give her your hand to squeeze. She smiles, and you imagine her eyes sparkling blue beneath her closed eyelids. You have to imagine because you haven't seen them in seven years. Time to go make our wish.
You begin to wheel her away, but Katsuya rolls up in his Sutherland, painted black-and-white-and-red with flashing blue lights above the sensor array. The back hatch opens up. Did you take that flower? he shouts down from four meters up, his glasses gleaming opaquely in the sun.
We promise to plant a new one, Katsuya-san, but look! Nunnally holds up the basket that's been sitting in her lap, filled to the brim with folded paper cranes. We folded a thousand!
Oh! He smiles. That's good to hear! Good luck with the goddess, then! The hatch closes and his wheels skid back in the direction of Hisato.
Katsuya-san's so nice, Nunnally observes on the way to the Ame-no-Uzume Shrine. She tucks a strand of wavy brown hair back behind her ear. You shrug. Katsuya's okay. He's very dedicated to his job, you say, scooting her wheelchair up to the purification trough.
You wash your hands and mouth, and help Nunnally do the same, ring the bell, place the basket of paper cranes in the offering box, and wait. Pretty soon, a light appears within the shrine, and grows until -
What can I help you with? Ame-no-Uzume sighs, brushing one long strand of jade hair behind her ear. I'm very busy. It dawns every day, you know.
Nunnally says, We'd like our wish now, Ame-no-Uzume-sama.
You squeeze her hand before speaking up. Our wish is for a peaceful, gentle world, where -
We're out. Ame-no-Uzume is filing her nails.
What!? You jump up. That can't be! Nunnally is tugging at your leg, leaning forward very awkwardly in her wheelchair.
You can have another wish, but I can't do the 'gentler world' one, she says. Hurry up, I'm delaying Hong Kong's sunrise for this.
You turn to Nunnally. She smiles. I'm not sad, o-nii-san, she insists. This is a beautiful world. And I'm happy if I'm with you. You should wish for what you want.
But I want you to be happy, you protest, dropping to your knees so she can wrap her arms around you and you around her. I did all this for you, Nunnally. I want to see you smile...
Well, she says, I am kind of hungry... Why don't we just ask for something to eat, and stay here?
That sounds perfect, Ame-no-Uzume says, shoving a pizza box between the two of you. I'm off to Hong Kong now. Have a wonderful time. Oh, she adds, I charged that to your credit card, by the way, Lelouch.
You open your mouth to protest her using your credit card without permission again, but Nunnally opens the box and the smell of the pizza inside hits you. Oh, she got pepperoni, she says, clapping her hands, that's my favorite!
Maybe we should invite some people to help us eat this, you say, I know I want to see Balthier's face when he tries it...
[ Lelouch wakes up without any grand fanfare, and shoves the Hitomi off the bed. ]
[[ooc: The person in the image is C.C., Lelouch's friend and ally. Ame-no-Uzume in this dream is actually her, because it's a dream and it isn't supposed to make sense. :D]]
She's still pointing as you guide her wheelchair (which glides quite smoothly, for some reason, even over the grass) over and bend to pick up what she had sensed in the grass - a paper flower, which she unfolds in her lap and refolds into a paper crane.
That's the last one, Lelouch, she says, and you give her your hand to squeeze. She smiles, and you imagine her eyes sparkling blue beneath her closed eyelids. You have to imagine because you haven't seen them in seven years. Time to go make our wish.
You begin to wheel her away, but Katsuya rolls up in his Sutherland, painted black-and-white-and-red with flashing blue lights above the sensor array. The back hatch opens up. Did you take that flower? he shouts down from four meters up, his glasses gleaming opaquely in the sun.
We promise to plant a new one, Katsuya-san, but look! Nunnally holds up the basket that's been sitting in her lap, filled to the brim with folded paper cranes. We folded a thousand!
Oh! He smiles. That's good to hear! Good luck with the goddess, then! The hatch closes and his wheels skid back in the direction of Hisato.
Katsuya-san's so nice, Nunnally observes on the way to the Ame-no-Uzume Shrine. She tucks a strand of wavy brown hair back behind her ear. You shrug. Katsuya's okay. He's very dedicated to his job, you say, scooting her wheelchair up to the purification trough.
You wash your hands and mouth, and help Nunnally do the same, ring the bell, place the basket of paper cranes in the offering box, and wait. Pretty soon, a light appears within the shrine, and grows until -
What can I help you with? Ame-no-Uzume sighs, brushing one long strand of jade hair behind her ear. I'm very busy. It dawns every day, you know.
Nunnally says, We'd like our wish now, Ame-no-Uzume-sama.
You squeeze her hand before speaking up. Our wish is for a peaceful, gentle world, where -
We're out. Ame-no-Uzume is filing her nails.
What!? You jump up. That can't be! Nunnally is tugging at your leg, leaning forward very awkwardly in her wheelchair.
You can have another wish, but I can't do the 'gentler world' one, she says. Hurry up, I'm delaying Hong Kong's sunrise for this.
You turn to Nunnally. She smiles. I'm not sad, o-nii-san, she insists. This is a beautiful world. And I'm happy if I'm with you. You should wish for what you want.
But I want you to be happy, you protest, dropping to your knees so she can wrap her arms around you and you around her. I did all this for you, Nunnally. I want to see you smile...
Well, she says, I am kind of hungry... Why don't we just ask for something to eat, and stay here?
That sounds perfect, Ame-no-Uzume says, shoving a pizza box between the two of you. I'm off to Hong Kong now. Have a wonderful time. Oh, she adds, I charged that to your credit card, by the way, Lelouch.
You open your mouth to protest her using your credit card without permission again, but Nunnally opens the box and the smell of the pizza inside hits you. Oh, she got pepperoni, she says, clapping her hands, that's my favorite!
Maybe we should invite some people to help us eat this, you say, I know I want to see Balthier's face when he tries it...
[ Lelouch wakes up without any grand fanfare, and shoves the Hitomi off the bed. ]
[[ooc: The person in the image is C.C., Lelouch's friend and ally. Ame-no-Uzume in this dream is actually her, because it's a dream and it isn't supposed to make sense. :D]]