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baedalites ([personal profile] baedalites) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2012-03-31 08:21 pm

birds singing in the sycamore tree

As night falls on Baedal, the city is almost quiet. The streets have a few last minute workers returning home, but by now, most citizens have already gone by the temples and picked up their vurt, ready to lay down and dream.

After placing a not-feather in one's mouth, there's a moment where it fizzes against the tongue before sliding coolly down the back of the throat and pulling the user down into sleep. A series of impressions, more sensation than anything concrete, appears before the user and this is how one chooses which Dreamer to enter.
sleaairgid: (~ closer)

[personal profile] sleaairgid 2012-04-11 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
It came to me in the ashes.

And so do his thoughts reach the princess, it seems, drifting like breaths of smoke—a memory of fragile paper, curling, crumbling in his hands, released again to the wind upon being read. He had turned, then, and walked in a new direction. Slipped into a shadow and was gone.

I know where you are now. Where you lay dreaming.
cailisairgid: (a well-behaved woman.)

[personal profile] cailisairgid 2012-04-11 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
(Where she sleeps, her hand curls into a fist.)

I do not hide.

Not in this city; not from him, now.
sleaairgid: (leering)

[personal profile] sleaairgid 2012-04-11 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You cannot hide from me.

By no means is this a threat—it is merely a fact, as inevitable as the passage of time, and it occurs to him naturally, with no sense of pride or posturing. But there is a sort of curling, perhaps, at the edges. The prince enjoys knowing this.
cailisairgid: (he's been around for centuries.)

[personal profile] cailisairgid 2012-04-11 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I have waited for you.

Not only here and not only now but for centuries she has waited, the war-drum beat of his heart pounding in her own chest as a reminder and a reproach both; that she must know him in her own hands when once she could have taken his. She has waited, and waited, and waited and the words are ash, too, ash in her mouth, a regret shaped cold and bright in this shared dream.

It had been a mistake to wait. She should have acted. Where might they have been, if she had but acted.
sleaairgid: (a glint of)

[personal profile] sleaairgid 2012-04-15 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
It is your way, the formless prince observes, by way of reassurance. And so shall it always be. Just as I will always seek out those things that come between us and put an end to them.

But this... this place. It has welcomed me.
Never mind that he had to fight his way in; scars are old news to him and so he's already moved past these freshest ones. I like it much better than the last.