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Kazuma Asogi ([personal profile] chippedsoul) wrote in [community profile] dreamcrystals2021-09-11 11:30 pm
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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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chippedsoul: (A moment's thought)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-09-26 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
You don't owe me anything. You would have done the same for me.

[He sips his tea again, going quiet once more. He's got plenty of experience being the silent apprentice afterall.]
mychosenpath: (pic#15123958)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-09-26 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah-- but... it's kind of hard for me to picture you getting yourself into a mess like that in the first place.

[He... is not going to talk about how unsurprising it is that he managed to. This is fine. We're fine.]
chippedsoul: (I'm here for you)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-09-26 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. You're right. [He sets down his teacup.] You'll try just about anything as long as it doesn't have onions in it, even evidence.
mychosenpath: (pic#15123938)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-11-11 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That's--! [Not incorrect.] I don't want to hear that from you. Not after all the trouble I went through because I ate your chicken for you.

[Chicken trauma, the gift that keeps giving.]
chippedsoul: (clipped my arm right off)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-11-11 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
What happened just further proves chicken aren't to be trusted. [Yep, he's actually blaming the chicken for everything. Silence falls between them as he looks at his own teacup.]

. . . I'll be all right. Just need a little time.
mychosenpath: (pic#15191444)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-11-12 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Right. The chicken. [He should have KNOWN it was somehow the chicken's fault.

Though his concerns for Kazuma have grown, his faith in him remains unwavering, when Kazuma speaks up, he nods.] I know you will. [In the end it just feels like a question of what he can do to help support Kazuma while he struggles to get there.] ...Do you want me to stay a while?
chippedsoul: (what the hell are morals?)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-11-12 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He considers his question for a moment, quietly letting out some air.] It be waste of tea if you leave now. [Yes.]
mychosenpath: (pic#15191441)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-11-12 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking the same thing. [There's no need to make it about anything else. Nothing concerning here-- just two friends hanging out.] ...But if it's all the same to you, I think I'll just sleep on the floor this time.

[He's had enough cramped spaces for a lifetime.]
chippedsoul: (assuredly so)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-11-13 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[A moment of confusion. It's been three or four something years, but then he gets it, and laughs.]

Are you sure? When there's a perfectly available couch over there? [Now he's teasing.]
mychosenpath: (pic#15191447)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-11-22 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
[He wishes he could forget. Those were memorable and uncomfortable times.]

Well. Since you offered. Yeah, that does sound nice.
chippedsoul: (have faith partner)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-11-22 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it's yours to use. And thank you...[A small hah, recalling a distant memory.] It's been some time since we've stayed over each other's place like this. Always falling asleep while you studied.
mychosenpath: (pic#15191442)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-12-03 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
...waking up with huge marks on my face from my books. [He sighs and shakes his head. It's still a very fond memory.]

There's no reason we can't make a habit of it now. Especially when you consider I'm just next door.
chippedsoul: (ballad of the somber)

[personal profile] chippedsoul 2021-12-03 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Just like old times... [He says it, but there's a small part of him who wonders if he should. He sips at his tea in silence. It's been so long...a part of him, still struggling to reconnect.]

There's still quite a bit of catching up we need to do.
mychosenpath: (pic#15191460)

[personal profile] mychosenpath 2021-12-03 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
I like to think I've grown a little since then.

[Although it's hard for him to really judge for himself-- it's felt like a lot.] ...yeah, I'd like that.
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