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[mis_match]

[accidental voice post]

Really, Father, you must let the children have some of the cake! It's a wedding! I'm sure they do not normally eat cake at home. Look at what fine, healthy young children they are.

[silence]

Father?

Father!

Mr. Weston!

Miss Taylor?

[A longer silence as Emma thinks.]

When did I fall asleep?

Comments

[charitaslamia]

Are you alright, miss?

[mis_match]

I am quite all right, thank you. Or I will be, once I wake up. It wouldn't do for me to miss the wedding, after going to such great efforts to arrange it.

[charitaslamia]

Regrettably, miss, you are quite awake.

[mis_match]

I assure you, if I were awake, I would not be here.

[misterblackbird]

Miss? Are you all right?

[mis_match]

How kind of you to inquire. I am quite well, thank you. I'm simply...waiting to wake up.

[misterblackbird]

Then I think you may be waiting quite a while.

[mis_match]

Oh really?

[thebearjew]

Ya aren't dreaming.

[mis_match]

So people persist in telling me. But why should a dream admit to being a dream? Granted, in a dream I have never asked, but I have never had a dream quite like this.

[thebearjew]

Well, I know I'm not a dream. This is...some strange futuristic city thing, or not so futuristic depending on what year you're from. Bad news: Ya aren't leaving any time soon.

[mis_match]

And just who, pray tell, will stop me?

voice;

[alleviatingly]

Are you okay?

voice;

[mis_match]

Do I seem ill?

[short pause]

I am quite well, thank you.

[absinthe_eyed]

Why would a dream deny that it's a dream?

[mis_match]

Why -- why does a dream do anything? I do not claim to understand them.

[absinthe_eyed]

You claim to understand them well enough to dismiss this as a dream without conclusive evidence.

[mis_match]

Without going anywhere, I am not where I was. That evidence is conclusive enough.