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Feb. 9th, 2005 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sign_seeker*A week and more of uneasy nightmare-ridden sleep is not completely erased by a single night, but it can do a fair amount when the power of Morpheus is behind it. Will wakes only reluctantly to a shrieking alarm clock, but when he rises he feels more alert than he has in days.*
*When he looks at himself in the mirror, his face is still a little drawn but the dark circles are nearly gone, and he trots down the stairs to breakfast with a light heart, because Morpheus his friend is back and the long nightmare is over.*
*When he looks at himself in the mirror, his face is still a little drawn but the dark circles are nearly gone, and he trots down the stairs to breakfast with a light heart, because Morpheus his friend is back and the long nightmare is over.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 03:47 am (UTC)*Will digs in his bag for a minute, and then finds his English homework.*
Here it is. All right.
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Date: 2005-02-10 03:50 am (UTC)"Well - you actually look awake this morning, and not terrified witless. Which is a good thing, I suppose."
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Date: 2005-02-10 03:54 am (UTC)Yes. It's a good thing.
*simply* It's over.
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Date: 2005-02-10 03:56 am (UTC)James hears the sound of the bus coming down the road, and sighs.
"I suppose you'll clam up as soon as we get on the public transportation, won't you."
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:00 am (UTC)I mean the nightmares, all of that. Nyarlathotep.
*And then the bus pulls to a halt, and the doors open.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 04:16 am (UTC)*They cuddle silently in the darkness -- the semi-darkness -- the unpleasant brightness of 2 pm.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:23 am (UTC)The agent of that separation? James Stanton, pulling Will by the wrist behind him, and announcing loudly, "We are going to have a Talk."
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 04:28 am (UTC)*He tries again, half-heartedly, to tug his wrist out of James's grasp, mostly on the principle of the thing.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 04:32 am (UTC)*muffled:* What, then?
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:43 am (UTC)Nyarlathotep's gone.
*Simple and matter of fact, but there's a smile lurking somewhere in his voice.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 04:49 am (UTC)*A crooked smile, agreeing.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:53 am (UTC)*He rolls over and appears to go back to sleep.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:55 am (UTC)"We're not done."
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 04:57 am (UTC)*He rolls back over, and sits up, adjusting the abused glasses, and blinking.* Right. Will, would you like to explain?
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:01 am (UTC)Well. I told you that he was an aspect of Dream, I think? Not just a new-come person like any other arrival.
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:10 am (UTC)Thought I did. Sorry.
Anyway, yes. Morpheus who is Dream -- dream personified, you see, all dreams -- has been there for a long time. And then nine days ago, I think it was, that other aspect was brought out.
And now he has been pushed back, and locked away deep inside Morpheus.
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:15 am (UTC)But that's not all there is to talk about."
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 05:24 am (UTC)One, two, three, turn.
"Paul and I were talking," he explains eventually, "yesterday. About you, and your magic bar, and so on."
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 05:47 am (UTC)"What if," he demands, "you hadn't come back?"
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Date: 2005-02-10 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 06:14 am (UTC)*quietly* It's true, though.
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Date: 2005-02-10 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 06:27 am (UTC)And for another, *he shrugs* I would.
*It's a statement of fact, and all the assurance he can offer.*
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Date: 2005-02-10 06:38 am (UTC)"Death doesn't work there"?
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Date: 2005-02-10 07:08 am (UTC)*He looks at them, calmly.*
Magic bar, remember? The rules there are... not exactly like the ordinary world.
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Date: 2005-02-10 07:15 am (UTC)And what are we supposed to tell Mum and Dad, that day when you're - I don't know, trapped in a landslide or eloping with a magical midget or something, and don't come back?"
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Date: 2005-02-10 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 07:21 am (UTC)*It's sincere. Then he sighs, and pulls his knees up to his chest, scooting back a bit to lean against Paul's footboard.*
I won't. I mean, I'll come back, honestly. I'll be fine.
I don't know what else to tell you.
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Date: 2005-02-10 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
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