OOM: Into the dreaming
Sep. 11th, 2012 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awesome_lillyIt's been a while.
Lilly hasn't consciously avoided the woods. It's just that, well, for a while there was nothing back here, and then with the sceptre she found other ways to get between worlds.
But now, after talking to Coop, she's been reminded that there's a world here, and it has a Lord, and she hasn't spoken to him in some time.
Lilly passes the Caribbean inlet with a single longing look and heads straight into the woods, walking until that spot where everything blurs, for a second, and she's not in the woods anymore.
Lilly hasn't consciously avoided the woods. It's just that, well, for a while there was nothing back here, and then with the sceptre she found other ways to get between worlds.
But now, after talking to Coop, she's been reminded that there's a world here, and it has a Lord, and she hasn't spoken to him in some time.
Lilly passes the Caribbean inlet with a single longing look and heads straight into the woods, walking until that spot where everything blurs, for a second, and she's not in the woods anymore.
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:59 am (UTC)It takes some time (but how much time?) for the trees to fade, and well before then a path resolves itself among them, and the sunlight that filters through seems to point the way.
And it is no time at all before the path emerges into a clearing, and in that clearing is a table, and on that table are three limes, a knife, a small cutting board, two shotglasses, and a bottle.
The Lord of Dreams sits with an elbow on the table, flames licking up his lapels, legs crossed, waiting.
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:07 am (UTC)... to be honest, she's walked into way worse places for good tequila, and this is likely to be the best tequila.
Lilly takes a seat at the table, and smiles. It's a bit crooked.
"What up, sai?"
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:13 am (UTC)It is indeed very good tequila.
"I could ask you the same question, Lilly Kane." Morpheus does not seem angry about this, however. "You have not entered my realm in some time."
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:24 am (UTC)Damn good tequila. And limes!
She sets down her shot glass.
"I was out of bar for a while too, traveling mostly. But now I'm back and catching up with all my old friends."
The implication that Dream is one of them is purposeful. Lilly does consider Dream a friend! An occasionally terrifying one, sure, but she basically specializes in that sort of friendship anyway.
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:29 am (UTC)"It is important to renew such relationships," Dream agrees. "As you saw, I have recently done something similar."
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Date: 2012-09-12 08:12 pm (UTC)"Yeah, I saw. It's nice, having this back."
A long time ago, it was the only way she could leave the bar without becoming a bloodied echo of herself.
"You roll the welcome mat back out for anyone in particular, or did you miss all of us at Bar tracking mud and angst through your nice clean dreams?"
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Date: 2012-09-12 08:17 pm (UTC)But he seems unbothered.
"It came to my attention that the connection between the Dreaming and Milliways had been severed. I thought it fitting to reestablish that connection."
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Date: 2012-09-14 12:24 am (UTC)She frowns at him.
"You didn't know? That the connection had been cut?"
That surprises her a little. To be fair, the Dreaming is kiiinda big. But that also means-
"So you'd given up stopping by for a drink, then."
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Date: 2012-09-14 02:12 am (UTC)This is, technically speaking, true.
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Date: 2012-09-14 02:38 am (UTC)"You've been busy, huh?"
Hopefully not with nightmares getting loose or anything.
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Date: 2012-09-14 02:41 am (UTC)Lilly should know this by now.
(Although he is starting to get suspicious.)
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Date: 2012-09-14 02:55 am (UTC)"I thought it might have been the breakup, too."
She eyes him.
"Are you okay, with all that? Because breakups suck, and I'm totally willing to watch every trashy tv show anyone's ever dreamed up while eating ice cream with you if Lucien and Matthew aren't."
Other possibilities include sitting and brooding silently together, but Lilly opened with her strengths.
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:01 am (UTC)Dream is silent.
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:03 am (UTC)"Fine. I get it. You're a classy anthropomorphic personification.
Downton Abbey it is."
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:06 am (UTC)"All stories," he says, "are my province. Your trash and your class make no difference to me."
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:11 am (UTC)"Got it. You're good on stories."
She spins the knife idly.
"But- does it make a difference? Having someone here or not, I mean? Seriously."
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-14 03:21 am (UTC)"None, I guess." Lilly shrugs. "There are people who like to talk about these things. It helps them."
She glances across the table.
"I'll cross you off that list."
(Not that stupid, though.)
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:28 am (UTC)Dream seems to be staring at the path that leads out of the clearing. He also does not seem pleased.
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:36 am (UTC)There is a pause. You could call it awkward.
If you enjoyed understatement.
"You know that's actually true? Granted, it's only true in this one planet where they hadn't figured out how to ferment alcohol yet, but they totally think I'm a genius there now. I have a feast-day!"
It's a hell of a feast, too.
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:39 am (UTC)Dream actually seems interested in this.
(Good job, Lilly.)
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:48 am (UTC)There's a tiny hint of self-mockery there, if you listen closely enough.
"I mean, it's not organized or anything, but everyone there regards Our Lilly of the Champagne Fountain as totally worshipful."
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Date: 2012-09-14 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-14 04:02 am (UTC)Lilly brightens at the thought.
"So I could go back in a few years and they'd still be doing it? Awesome."
Of course, a few years after that there would probably be factions, and then a bitter war over the acceptability of pink champagne despite the Sacred Cocktail Napkin clearly stating 'yes way rose!' in the drunken slant of their goddess.
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Date: 2012-09-14 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-14 04:06 am (UTC)"Drink it?"
They're talking about champagne, right?
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Date: 2012-09-14 04:15 am (UTC)It's entirely possible she wasn't.
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Date: 2012-09-14 04:20 am (UTC)That'd be a no.
"Kind of? But don't you have to like, actually have power first?"
Like one of those 'spend money to make money' things. Lilly's good at those!
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Date: 2012-09-14 04:23 am (UTC)"It would not be the first time that veneration of the dead resulted in a fundamental change of that sort."
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Date: 2012-09-14 04:29 am (UTC)"...oh," Lilly manages, after a minute of staring ahead at nothing in particular.
"Well. That'll be... interesting."
Oh god, how will she even be able to tell? Is there a rash that breaks out when you get worshipped, like with chicken pox? Or do you just suddenly develop halos and look good in white? BUT SHE ALREADY LOOKS GOOD IN WHITE OH GOD IT'S STARTING MAINTAIN YOUR COOL YOU MIGHT BE A GOD NOW.
"You know, if it happens."
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Date: 2012-09-14 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-14 05:01 am (UTC)"Right."
On the bright side, maybe there's a clubhouse!
"So. Um.
More tequila?"
This sounds like a GOOD IDEA to her.
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Date: 2012-09-14 05:08 am (UTC)