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Breach!

Day twenty of the month of Domino starts as a perfectly normal day on the Voidtrecker express. Passengers work on chores, or play games, bicker and read. The usual ways of relieving the slight tedium that come with being stuck on a train. Even a train that is hurtling through the void.

It is about mid morning when the whole train tilts, suddenly as if it has been hit. It is enough to knock passengers over if they don’t catch themselves quick enough. For those in the games car there is a loud bang as something hits the window. A small black object is stuck in the window for a moment before it dislodges and disappears as quickly as it appears.

The window doesn’t smash but cracks appear around the impact site. Almost immediately sirens begin going off. "Breach. Breach. Warning. Breach."

Hopefully passengers will remember what they are to do in the event of such an incident. For anyone in the kitchen they will see that the oven, water and other appliances switch off. Doors begin closing around the train, in an attempt to seal carriages.

Those in the games carriage won’t see much of that, they will barely have time to register what has happened before they feel dizzy and sleepy, falling to the ground where they are. This spreads throughout the train, the further away a passenger is from the games car the longer they will have before they succumb but within fifteen minutes everyone on the train will be sleeping. Even including those who usually do not sleep or even those who cannot sleep.

Because this is no ordinary sleep.

For some passengers they will sleep the whole day and night, solidly and dreamlessly. But for others, for most, their sleep is anything but peaceful.

They will dream, strange, wonderful or terrible dreams and walk those dreams with their fellow passengers. Tumbling from one to another with no sense of where one ends and the other begins they will dream the whole day and night, though it will likely feel much longer and perhaps much shorter.

Their dreams may come from themselves, they may come from their fellow passengers and there are a few dreams that all may find themselves dreaming.

Infestation

The train is filled with dralite. They are everywhere, in every carriage. Flying through doors, in your bed. This dream takes the form of a stress dream, every time you think you have emptied a space of dralite there are more.

They aren’t aggressive creatures, just annoying and the ever shifting dream means that every time you remove one from hugging your head another appears. The train shifts and warps, carriages muddling as you move through it trying to contain all of the creatures.

A Distant Light

It is a dark night, though there are stars in the sky. In the distance there is a bonfire lighting up the area. Around it there are figures, they are too far away to make out any features but in the flickering light you can see they wear hoodies in the colours you know well by now.

There is the sound of singing and laughter and you want to approach. But no matter how long you walk the fire is always in the distance, never getting closer. You feel a great longing to be at the fire, but it is out of reach.

Flying

Flying is such a universal dream and so it is not surprising many of your dreams will incorporate this. You fly, over mountain, across rivers and seas, through forests and through the debths of space itself.

But most often you fly through the void, the ever shifting void around you, diving through colours that swirl and dance around you.

Dream well Void warriors!

(OOC: The plotting and information post is here. Characters will wake up on day 21 and there will be an ooc mod post detailing that on the 10th February.)

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"Good. Then I need you two to come with me, hold onto my jacket so I can shield you. We are getting out of here."

The two boys looked at each other, they didn't speak but after a moment they both nodded and went over to Khardeen quietly. They were still holding on to each other but now they held on to the mans jacket as well.

"Where are you taking us?" The blonde boy spoke quietly, Romeo still looked too shocked and scared to say anything.

He put a skin tight shield over the mass of the three of them. "Somewhere safe," he said gently. "Somewhere with healers and food and warm clothes. And quite possibly somewhere with puppies. Or do you two prefer horses? Large cats? Unicorns?"

Healers and food and warm clothes sounded good. As did puppies. Romeo is still trembling. He doesn't want to believe mister Khardeen was a bad person, but he had killed people. Horribly and violently.

He was being kind to them now, was that alright? For them to go somewhere safe with someone who did bad things? He glanced at Alfredo who had a similar frown on his face but he stayed close.

"I like all those animals sir." Romeo whispered, realising they had been asked a question.

He nodded once. "Hold on tight," he said to them and then he jumped into the webs. It looks rather like traveling on the train without there being a train around them.

The trip would have been much longer, if not impossible, were this reality. But somehow they were flying free through a blueish version of the void for less than ten seconds before arriving outside a lovely two story cottage. The front door popped open and about a dozen small puppies raced out at them. He dropped the shields and smiled back at the kids. A moment before the puppies that were fastest could leap at them an adult dog - still tiny - barked once. All the puppies stopped as soon as they heard the bark and planted their furry butts in the grass.

Khary laughed. "Ladvarian is right. Healers first, then the ladies will tell you how much cuddling the kids can take." He smiled back to the children. "You can let go now, let's get you inside."

Both children tensed a bit at the dogs. Romeo might like dogs but there was a difference between liking them and being okay with a whole pack running at him at once. But they stopped and sat and he smiled at them and then his eyes went over to the older dog who had barked.

"Yes sir." He whispered and both he and Alfredo let go, still holding onto each other as they followed Khardeen inside.

He started to lead the way across the lawn, the dogs moving to walk behind the kids happily, tails wagging, tongues lolling. But they only got halfway across the grass when the door to the cabin opened. Three women stepped out, each different from the others, yet there was clearly some similarities. All three were fair, but different shades of fair, ranging from lightly almost tanned in one case, to almost ice white in another. Two of the women looked to be in their twenties. One, the ice white one, looked... older.

The one who was almost tanned had delicately pointed ears, slightly too large blue-silver eyes, and long silvery hair. There was something delicate and ephemeral looking about her. Like she wasn't quite real. One might almost expect to see wings at her back, she moved with such a light step and such grace. She wore a pale green silk blouse and brown trousers.

The middle girl had pale but healthy pale skin. Her blond hair was shaggy, like a bad hair cut growing out. Her eyes were deep sapphire, like looking into an endless well, except... it was as if you somehow just knew that the bottom of that well was safety. She wore an oversized threadbare blue sweater over black trousers.

The third woman... she looked at least ten years older than the other two, if not more. She was ice white pail with short white hair gelled to sharp spikes above her head. Her eyes were icy blue and sharp. She wore a medium grey silk blouse and dark blue trousers. She also had a cane on either arm, the sort that attached cuff like to the arms and had handles. Her legs were painfully skinny, too skinny to hold her weight. She looked frail.

Khary stopped walking and ran towards them, relief and love on his face. "Thank the Darkness you three are here, these children need healing and..." he was about to scoop the frail one up. She smacked his side with one cane.

"Down, boyo. Healing first. Soft mush junk after," she said tartly. "And if you're really nice I might even forget that you owe me a game of chess."

He laughed and kissed her cheek. "Darling, I wouldn't play chess with you to save my life." He turned back to the boys. "You boys can come on. These three are the strongest healers in the realm. This is Lady Gabrielle" the point eared one with the silver hair, "Lady Karla," he said, nodding to the one with the canes.

She bared her teeth at Khary. "Kiss kiss," she growled.

"And this is Lady Jaenelle. The Queen."

"Former," Jaenelle said, sounding amused. Her voice was like velvet, soft and comforting. Her eyes faded from midnight and deeps to a pale summer sky. She had a friendly, warm smile, and knelt a bit. "Hello, it is nice to meet you both. We have warm soup inside." After a look from Khary she blew hair out of her eyes, exasperated. "I promise, I didn't cook it."

Khary grinned.

Romeo watched the three women warily, they all looked a bit scary but mister Khardeen seemed to know them and like them so it should be alright.

Then again, mister Khardeen was scarier than he had ever known. The two boys looked at the three healers with frightened eyes but nodded. "Hello lady Gabrielle, Lady Karla and lad... um queen... um lady..." They glanced at each other and Alfredo smiled brightly. "Lady Jaenelle."

Soup sounded amazing, still wary the boys followed her inside.

Jaenelle chuckled lightly. "An honor you meet you, young lords," she gave them a slight bow, amusement on her lips, as she led them inside. The cottage was comfortable and warm. Cozy. A fire burned in the hearth. There was a sitting room with multiple comfortable couches. Jaenelle sat and gestured to the seat beside her. "Would you two care to join me? Lord Khardeen will bring out the soup."

Khary bowed deeply. "It would be my honor to serve, of course." There was something easier about him now than even in the waking world on the train. As if he felt comfortable here in a way Romeo had never seen. As though he hadn't just been brutal minutes before.

They glanced at each other and bowed back, Romeo a little clumsier than Alfredo. They looked around, it really was warm, a lot warmer than before and they sat down carefully. Romeo worried they might get the couch all mucky, both her and Alfredo were pretty grimy but lady Jaenelle didn't seem to mind.

He watched as Khardeen went to find soup, he did seem happier here. That was good, it would hopefully mean he wouldn't be scary again.

"Thank you lady Jaenelle."

She nodded, smiling warmly. "You can just call me Jaenelle. Now, while he gets the soup," she held her hands out to them. "May I look inside to see what healing is needed?"

The boys nodded and looked at each other again. "Um okay miss Jaenelle." Romeo said, wriggling a big closer though he wasn't completely sure what she meant. She was probably going to use magic though.

She smiled warmly and touched each of them gently on the side of their face and closed her eyes. There would be a feeling of warmth as she tried to sense what needed to be fixed. Had this been actual canon healing would have taken time and work and such. But as Khary thought of these three? Gabriel and Karla moved over and also touched the boys, and there was a blessed coolness everywhere they'd been hurt. Khary came out with soup for all on a floating tray and as soon as he did, Karla's eyes snapped open and her touch withdrew. A large urn floated in the air between them. "Go heat up this healing brew we made," she told him.

"So the boys will be okay?" He asked as he settled the tray onto the table and took control of the floating urn.

"Who exactly do you think we are?" Karla asked, lips twisting in an odd sort of smile.

He chuckled. "Two hot mugs of healer's brew, coming up." He and the urn vanished back into the kitchen.

Karla shook her head. "Males," she muttered, but she was smiling. Jaenelle and Gabrielle pulled back. All but the most superficial of cuts and scrapes were gone.

"You'll need to drink the brew we make twice a day for the next few days," Jaenelle said gently. "We pulled a lot into the healing so you'll be tired. But your body can do the rest now, so you need to drink the brew and eat good hearty foods. Understood?"

It felt nice and Romeo leaned sleepily against Alfredo as they were healed. They nodded as they were told they had to rest and drink the healing drink and eat nice food. Both boys could barely believe their luck. Romeo's head hurt a little as he tried to make sense of all that had happened.

"Thank you miss." He whispered sleepily. They were safe now, Alfredo and him.

Khary came back out with warmed drinks for each of them. "Here, these will help," he said, gently. "Drink up, eat, then we'll get you kids into bed for a few hours."

"Thank you sir." The boys took the drinks and drank slowly, feeling the warmth spread through them. Romeo stifled a yawn, at this rate he would be asleep long before he was put in a bed. He's exhausted, it's been a very scary day.

Khary settled on the boys' other side. He kissed the top of Romeo's head gently. "You're safe now, both of you."

He nods, he feels safe. Even though mister Khardeen had been really scary and did something really bad... He doesn't think he will hurt him or Alfredo. Neither will any of the healers.

He closed his eyes and as he drifted off so did the dream, moving them on into the next.

A bunch of the puppies would have formed a living blanket over the boys, protective and comforting....

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Breach!

Re: CW for violence/gore

CW for violence/gore

Okay to transfer to a place he remembers?

sure

Cool. Probably next post they will see him get knocked on his ***, lol.

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and wrap!

Thank you for the thread!