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001 - Dream Recording

Sender: Kazuma Asogi
To: Everyone
Subject: Dream recording

CW: Blood, Dead Bodies, Drowning

The dream starts in darkness, cold and quiet. The muffled sound of something like the swing of a sword cuts through the silence, and someone screaming. Laughter, unsettling gleeful laughter.

It gets warm, a fire in color, appearing and spreading. The screams of people get louder. There are flashes of grayed out people laying on the ground, faces obscured like a staticky television. The laughter still echoes, getting louder. Then a voice speaks up. It sounded like Kazuma, and yet not. There was an edge to it, deeper and wild.

You can't run. You can't hide.

A flash, a clawed hand rising up to strike at something, or someone. The people laying on the ground now visibly show claw wounds. The blood is in color, red.

My time may be up, but I've always been a part of you. Never forget that.

The laying people flash before him again, but now they're in color, their faces no longer obscured as they flash by with the same shocked expressions.

The dream will abruptly end soon after, left with a feeling that someone just broke the surface of water.

[Unbeknownst to Kazuma, he isn't aware about his nightmare having been recorded, currently more rattled by it as he wakes from sleep in a cold sweat.]

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[ So Nier hasn't entirely grasped the situation he's in yet and he's always learning something new. He sits there watching a nightmare and it looks very unnerving from afar. Maybe it's not his place to comment on it or speak his opinions but he feels concern. Kazuma has just experienced a bad dream.]

...Are you okay?

[ It's a simple question that almost anyone might ask after seeing something like that. ]

[There is no immediate response, because it hasn't register to him that dreams can be recorded without the person's discretion. Eventually he will notice his journal is present and open to a new entry. It cannot be seen, but he is frowning deeply at the question being asked.]

Is there a reason why I wouldn't be? [He knows the answer, he just doesn't want to get into, all that.]

That nightmare I just saw was yours, wasn't it?

[ Nier's just trying to confirm some facts because this is the first time he's seen someone's nightmare out in the open like that. ]

I'm a little worried about you, but if you don't want to talk about it that's okay.

[...] Yes, it was.

So this place willingly broadcast dreams with or without our permission then. How troublesome. [He's much more angry then the text is conveying right now.]

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That was quite a nightmare. Are you all right?

Fine.

I'm more unnerved that it was shared. [Dumb tapirs.]

Yes, it is a rather unsettling that something so private could be recorded for others to view.

And I have a feeling there's no way to prevent it from occurring.

Let this be a warning, I suppose.

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[That nightmare... it was definitely something. Roxas doesn't fully understand what happened, but seeing his own face in the dream was quite frightening. So, after a moment, Roxas will reach out.]

Kazuma..?

[He glances at the name messaging him.

...Well, he suppose it was inevitable.] I'm sorry you had to see that.

It's fine, but... what was that? A nightmare?

[...] Yes. I did say our friendship was on and off.

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Wait, this... Is some kind of nightmare? Have we met?

[. . .]

We did, in another world.

( theres a lot to unpack here.
but at least he’s become familiar with the concept.. )

A rough one, looks like. What’s your name?

I apologize that you had to see that. [He's not sure if it's better or not that Ren doesn't seem to remember.]

Kazuma Asogi

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sorry for the delay here, rough work/life balance for a bit there ;;

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No worries!

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♥

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[ ...That was. Not a nightmare he wanted to see.

He'd known about Naomi. She'd told him when he'd come to check on her after her Book scene, and found the bruises on her chest. But Roxas and Ren? Was Shizuo due to how the book ended...?

And even saying he 'knew' about Naomi didn't make that any easier. His mind flashed back to how, on that foggy day, he'd rushed to the scene and saw Chisa--

He shook his head. Taking a deep breath, Dojima opened his journal up, sent the kid a private message. ]

Kazuma, you up?

[The messages keep coming, understandably so, but...now he's gotten the detective on him.]

Yes. [He's not getting any sleep for awhile after that.]

That was a lot.

[ Probably wouldn't be able to sleep after something like that... ]

Can we talk?

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[ Dreams, as well as nightmares, might have their roots in one's memories, but it's not always the case. Noé isn't sure what to make out of this recording, especially since it doesn't seem like something that was meant to be shown to the public. ]

I'm sorry, but I have seen your nightmare.
I didn't mean to, it was just there.
Are you alright?
You don't have to answer if you don't want to, but...did it really happen?
Or was it just a product of your imagination?

[There isn't an immediate response. He needed a moment to get himself together before reading the entry.]

When you ask like that, saying nothing would basically confirm it's validity.

[ Noé's response, on the other hand, appears almost immediately: ]

Does it?
I'd just assume you don't want to talk about it.
Which is fair, I think.
Are you okay, though?
You didn't answer that question.

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[There is a great deal to process through those images. Who were those people? He had learned that this was not Kazuma's first experience with strange worlds, for all what little he still understood of that experience. So he can only imagine that what he knows of Kazuma's demons were only compounded by... something.

But more importantly-- he can only imagine the pain that Kazuma must be in, having had such nightmares.

Given approximately 15 minutes, Naruhodo is going to heat up some tea and come knocking on his neighbor's treehouse door.]

[Not expecting anyone at this ridiculous hour, Kazuma register knocking as something else. Someone else. His current paranoia made the night seem even noisier, he couldn't really tell what was in his head or real.

So he doesn't go to the door when Ryunosuke knocks, remaining seated in his bed, squeezing the journal in his hand. What was this feeling? It felt cold, numbing, his mind being held elsewhere. It's not like him to freeze like this. There was no obstacle he couldn't eventually overcome, but this feeling was powerful enough to trap his mind from moving forward.]

[...well, thinking about it, he can't say it's odd that he doesn't answer. So he has to set down his things in order to pull out his journal.

It's a little late for yelling, and not particularly appropriate, besides. So he will try this another way first; leaving him a message.]

Kazuma, open the door.

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