[October 19, 2081, probably around midnight.] [We'll... give Keiko the camera for a moment, in her room, laying under her covers, bottom bunk, in her brand new giant shirt from her roommate. (*n_n*). Her eyes are closed, and she looks nice and resty. But then a ghostly form seperates itself from her body, visible in a bit of TV magic! Why do we care? Let's get to that in a second. Mini start.] * Keiko 's ghostly form moves away from her body a moment. The ghostly form looks basically how she looked earlier that day, minus the plush more or less stapled to her stomach. The form looks around a moment, seems to puzzle as it looks towards Zarina, and then floats towards Hotaru's room, disappearing... * Keiko 's astral head peeks out from the wall above Hotaru's bed, looking down at her. Maybe she's awake! Her ghostly hair drapes down around her face as she does this. Oooooh. Maybe she should get some chains to rattle. * Hotaru 's on the lower bunk of the bunkbeds, curled up and with the blankets clenched under her chin. On the bedside table are Ten and her sunglasses. * Ten has joined #mc4 * Ten 's eyes are open, but she's not moving. * Keiko looks at Ten a long moment, and then back to Hotaru, before disappearing. To someone attuned to the astral, though, they'd still see Keiko, but more importantly, they'd see her putting both her hands to Hotaru's head, seeming to want to meld to her. But that'll only work if she's actually _asleep_. * Hotaru offers no resistance. (Ha. Okay, now it's your turn to describe dreamland. Whew!) * Brett has quit IRC (Ping timeout) * Hotaru 's dream is very simple. It's dark, there's a very strong smell of something vaugly floral, and a couple of voices, both male, that seem to be speaking gibberish, but so loudly that the air itself shakes. * Keiko spends a little bit watching, trying to figure out what's going on. Just the gibberish in the dark, for a while? (There's ground if you try to find it, and presumably Hotaru's in here somewhere, maybe even that Ten thing.) * Keiko manifests herself on the ground, looking a bit more solid than she did outside, but still a little unreal. She tries to suss out where she is without saying anything. Dreams can be shaky stuff! [The ground's firm, and Keiko can feel the texture of carpet even through her dream shoes. The voices don't seem to be coming from any particular direction.] * Keiko echoes, quietly, "Hotaru?" through the dark space as she just floats around, trying to pinpoint the girl, or her point of view, in her dream. [Keiko hears a whimper, was it from over there?] * Keiko floats towards the whimper quickly, hands extended. "Hotaru... Hotaru... help me find you..." [Keiko finds a something with he outstreached hand. It's cold, smooth and metalic, except for the top bit that's soft. It's not hard to figure out that it's a stool, but everything here seems to *feel* more. Maybe it's just the lack of light. She hears the whimper again, it's closer and to her right.] * Keiko moves to the right and continues saying, as she searches, "I can make it go away, Hotaru... but you have to let me..." [You find another something! It's waist height, flat on top, mostly smoth, but with small ripples, cool to the touch, and seems to be fairly large.] * Keiko runs her hands over the top of this... table-like thing. Desk. Something, floating over it as she continues to search the top of it and whisper, "Hotaru..." [You find... a thing that's half smooth, cool, and round, and half rough and box like. There's a projection about half way up. The whimpering is realy close now, and the voices are everpresent.] * Keiko exhales without breath and says, "You need to give me more." A beat, then she continues searching with her hands and senses as she says, "Let me take this away, Hotaru, I can't... I can make it a field. You like fields? Just let me in." [There's a hoarse and whispered "Away." that might have been from Hotaru, it's hard to tell given that you only heard her voice once once and she was screaming at the time. Oh, and it seems to be coming from under you.] * Keiko floats her body down immediately, horizontally flat as she continues saying, "You've gotta let me in." (You reaching out?) (Yeah.) [You find Hotaru! Maybe. It's warm but you can't tell if you're touching anything or not, but it does seem to be the source of the voice that now says. "Nobody here."] * Keiko puts her hands against the warmth and pauses a moment before saying, "I'm here. You're here. Just... just let me in." Beat. "The noise is getting to me too." [The voice whispers again. "Please, go.] * Keiko frowns and says, "I came here to talk to you, even if you'll never remember it." Beat, then more quietly, "I... know you're in here, Hotaru." [The warmth seems to solidify for a moment as the voice atualy speaks in a compleat sentance. "You can't be here."] * Keiko replies, smiling a little, "But I am. I'm impossible a lot." She then gets a sad look on her face, before saying, "If you're not gonna let me in, I'm just gonna stay here until the dream breaks. Or you let me in." [The voice starts to sound panicky, "You have to go! She'll find out! The only reason she's not here aleady is she hates my dreams! Please!"] * Keiko frowns and says, "She... Ten?" She frowns again before running her hand through the warmth and saying, "If you let me in, I could try to figure out how to stop..." [The warmth fades to nearly nothing and looses what firmness it had. "Don't say her name!"] * Keiko 's eyes widen and she says, quietly, "I won't. Next time." And then, after a split second longer, she pulls herself out. [End]