[mingle] what's the dream and what's the reality?

[lovetheme]

Lately the castle's nights have been very clear and almost warm, even up so high among the clouds as they are. But regardless of the weather, they are generally peaceful nights, and few things seem to stir during them...apart from the castle's inhabitants, be it with late-night roving or with sleep. The dreams, by extension, are at least undisturbed...if maybe not always pleasant. That sort of thing tends to vary by the person, of course.

But now--and for several nights, consecutively--the castle residents may find their dreams starting to take on stranger shapes: memories they've never had, friends that don't usually arrive, strangers they've never seen. These odd impressions might cling and continue to confuse even upon waking, vivid as they were; was it really just a dream, or maybe something more...? Does that newcomer in your dream remember you there too, in the daytime?

Either way, there seems to be an strange energy in the air during these nights. And it's bringing dreams together.

((ooc: And here's the catch-all post for the dream-sharing event! Feel free to top-level with your character's dreams here, or thread around in others! The event should only last about a week, but backtagging is eternal c: The ooc planning post can be found here!))

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[antitemporal]

"yeah!" He nods enthusiastically. "they taste really good! this one takes like lemons." He nudges the star in question. "but this one takes like cupcakes." He nudges another, seemingly identical star.

"you can also pick some from up there, if you want." He nods up at the sky overhead, at the countless stars still surrounding them. "they're for everybody, so you won't get in trouble."

[lostlegacy]

"Cupcakes?"

Suddenly, it doesn't matter whether they're hard to eat or not--if they taste like cupcakes, they gotta be good, right?

She reaches up and catches a star in her hands...she thinks. They aren't pointy like she was expecting, but more like trying to hold the head of a dandelion after it had gone to seed. She scoops it in her mouth and tastes....

"Milk."

She wrinkles her nose. Not cupcakes? And how can she eat milk, anyway?

[antitemporal]

"oh!" Sans-Serif gasps aloud, his eyes shining as brightly as stars as well all of a sudden. "you found the milk ones! i was looking for those!"

Without making any apparent move to do so, he manages to direct his cloud to float a little nearer to hers'. Then he reaches up past her, though the apparent distance is a bit of a strain, and plucks a couple more stars into his hand. Immediately and happily, he eats those, too. Then he holds out his palmful of stars to Sophie. "do you want the rest of mine? those were really the only ones i wanted."

[lostlegacy]

"Yeah." For sure. Who would want milk-stars, anyway?

She reaches over with both hands to scoop the stars out of his palm. Touching bone like that should feel weird, but she doesn't feel anything at all. She doesn't notice she isn't feeling it, either.

Once the stars are sitting in front of her on her cloud, she picks up one of S2's crunchy ones and has a bite. There's the cupcake ones.