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applesaucedream2015-11-27 09:50 pm
applesaucemod) wrote in applesaucedream2015-11-27 09:50 pm
Ain't Never Had a Friend Like Me
YOU GET THREE.
That's what the signs posted all over this enormous shopping mall say, anyway. The signs are impossible to miss. They're posted in every store, on every escalator, and even in the bathrooms. They're on the gates to the rides in the indoor amusement park and taped to the glass in the aquarium. Those three words appear over and over, standing as some kind of invitation to the dreamers…or is it a warning?
It could mean three of anything, really. The mall is empty aside from the dreamers, no shop clerks or attraction attendants to clarify the rules, nor crowds of shoppers to lead by example. Could it be three items from the shops? Three items from each shop? Or maybe it means three soft pretzels. It could even mean three sharks. It probably doesn't mean three sharks. No one knows!
Sooner or later, though, someone is bound to figure it out by accident. Everyone who finds themselves in this dream will get three wishes to do with what they please. They may find themselves a little more inclined than usual to phrase their desires in I wish statements, but there's no real indication until it happens that that's what they're supposed to do. Surely nothing can go wrong with that.
[OOC: Standard dream party rules apply: you and/or your character don't need to be a member of the community in order to participate, and characters will remember or forget the events of the dream at their players' discretion. Characters may make any wishes they like and have those wishes granted, but the effects of potentially game-breaking wishes (ones that would alter the setting of the entire dream, for instance) will be limited to the threads in which those wishes are made.]
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She shifts into otter shape, first, scampering up the escalator until she's a few steps above Cole. No sense in taking human shape while she's still in the water (though she does feel a bit sorry that he'll still be soaked while she's mostly dry). Once she's back in her usual form, she leans her elbows against her knees and cants her head down at him, brow furrowed in something between bewilderment and disapproval.
"Most folk consider it polite to ask before you go poking round in their heads," she says, a bit sternly, but not unkindly. It almost seems as if he really doesn't know better.
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"I'm sorry," he says. "I can't stop it. Sometimes it just happens." He looks at her again, slowly, gently. "You wished they weren't caged and so they weren't. Your wishing made it so. That's what the dream does." He twitches his head away. Dreaming like this is - wrong, but it's not like the Fade, it's just like living, but a little different. "You understand," he observes. "This has happened to you before. Does it happen a lot?"
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But he's not, and deep down, she's stopped expecting him.
Daine wrinkles her nose when Cole reveals the Rift's trick. There are worse things it could do, but goddess forbid it just leave them be. No more wishing, then.
"Yes," she says. Maybe he read her mind, but he could just as easily have read her expression. "Not exactly like this, but yes. The Rift likes to bring us together in our sleep and mess about with us. Sometimes it does things in the waking world, too, but usually it just happens here." She scrapes a stray curl out of her face, then wryly adds, "You'll get used to this, too."