03 // Video

[stfuelly]

[The feed turns on as one Vanessa Nightray is arranging a bouquet of snowdrops on her desk. Yes, Elliot, she actually left the house and walked all of the way down to the edge of the lake in order to pick those. But comment on that fact with even the tiniest bit of sarcasm and you're getting slapped. Finishing her arrangement, she tightens the

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[ofnoise]

'The events surrounding them'...? Echo is uncertain as to what you are referring to, Miss Vanessa.

[stfuelly]

[Ah - Vincent's servant. As much as she'd like to tell the girl to mind her own business, she does have questions that Echo might be able to answer.]

Have you ever had a dream that you could control at the time?

[ofnoise]

[stfuelly]

Then if it's possible, misfortune cannot always be permanent, correct?

[rendtheskies]

[tilts her head] Try to affect this world? Mean like if I were to think of an apple, it would appear right in my hand?

[stfuelly]

Perhaps not quite to that extent.

[rendtheskies]

Care to give an example?

[stfuelly]

You can blink in a dream, open your eyes and be somewhere else. Or stab a needle into your hand and not have it hurt.

[resonancy]

A lucid dream? I don't know, I've never thought to try, myself...

[stfuelly]

I've...been told that it's an impossibility. So you can excuse my question altogether.

[resonancy]

-- You were? But- wait, it's something to consider, isn't it?

[stfuelly]

It would be something to consider if it were at all possible. But surely someone would have figured that out by now if it were.

[bloomtrigger]

... Well, sometimes I wonder if we're all being pulled into one person's dream, so that's why we can't really control the 'reality' of it.

[stfuelly]

Into one person's dream... [Pondering that.]

I guess that explanation is no more ridiculous than any other.

[bloomtrigger]

Well, it is a pretty strange situation to be in, to begin with. I've kind of learned how to suspend by disbelief after a while...

[Well, there doesn't seem to any point in further discussing that subject, so...]

What kind of flowers are those, Miss Vanessa?

[stfuelly]

[Suspending disbelief is getting easier, but...]

Oh - [glancing back over her shoulder at the vase] - snowdrops. There are so few flowers that continue to bloom in this sort of weather.

[boat_lights]

[Three hours later--]

Did you call, sister?

[stfuelly]

Hours ago, yes. Are you sure your servant is so capable if she's taking so long to get a message to you, Vincent?

[boat_lights]

Echo is efficient, sister. Perhaps it was your words that weren't. You never did specify a time, did you?

[stfuelly]

Then it is only your disregard for my inquiry that is the problem here. Shall I put a time limit on everything that I ask of you?