OOM: About your creepy brother and his weird-ass dreams... (working title)

[awesome_lilly]

[After this]

Lilly wakes up frowning. She's still not entirely sure what was going on in that dream, but she knows Mel needs to hear about it. Yawning, she sits up, slides out of bed, pulls on a t-shirt and heads for the kitchen.

Mel's already there, making cocoa. All the ingredients are out, milk, chocolate, marshmallows, whiskey... Lilly smiles.

"Hey. Got enough for two?"

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[slayer_fray]

Mel surveys the space in front of her. From the sheer volume of ingredients she's dumped out of the cupboard, she's got enough for a small army.

"Sure thing. Couldn't sleep?"

[awesome_lilly]

Yes, but one of the two is a Slayer, with accompanying Slayer-sized appetite.

"Not really," Lilly says, frowning a little. "I was having a seriously odd time in the Dreaming."

[slayer_fray]

Doesn't mean there's no room for a normal ghost-sized mug of cocoa, and Mel grabs a mug from the drainer for just such a purpose.

"Yeah? Woulda thought the Dreaming in general's pretty odd."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly's grateful for the cocoa, both as warm chocolate goodness and a stalling device. No good putting this off for more than a few seconds, though.

"Yeah, um. It turns out your brother's dreams are at the high end of odd."

[slayer_fray]

Cocoa splashes across the kitchen floor as the cup drops about six inches before Mel catches it.

She doesn't look up.

[awesome_lilly]

"I was in one of them, just now," Lilly says. "I didn't want to upset you, Mel, but... I thought you should know about it."

[slayer_fray]

"No, that's OK," Mel looks up at Lilly, eyes wide. She looks almost wistful, and there's a small element of desparation there.

"Did you see one of the Slayers, before me?"

[awesome_lilly]

"I think... I think I saw a lot of them," Lilly says slowly. "There was a fight going on, between this creature and a girl, but the girl kept changing. I didn't recognize her most times, but once she was you and once she was Faith."

[slayer_fray]

Mel frowns.

"All the Slayers? That doesn't make a lot of sense. I thougth those dreams were supposed to focus on one life at a time."

[awesome_lilly]

"All the Slayers, yeah," Lilly says. "Kinda all of them fighting this demon thing, only each girl was there for like a second at a time. They were fighting over an amulet, or something."

[slayer_fray]

She looks up sharply suddenly.

"An amulet? Can you remember what it looked like?" abandoning her cocoa, mel vaults over the breakfast bar and sprints towards the cupboard where the girls keep the party games.

[awesome_lilly]

"Yeah," Lilly replies.

"It wasn't that big or shiny or unusual looking, really, but I remember it."

[slayer_fray]

Mel's found the Pictionary by now and pulled out a pad and pen, which she presents to Lilly as she returns.

"Can you draw it? This might be really important."

[awesome_lilly]

"I thought it might be," Lilly says, nodding. "The dream... it felt different. I tried really hard to remember everything."

She's sketching as she speaks, an amulet with a kite shaped base and a symbol she doesn't know but is managing to reproduce fairly well.

"This part, the base, was black and the thingy here was silver."

[slayer_fray]

Mel peers around Lilly's arm as she draws.

"They're mine, you know. The dreams. They're supposed to be mine."

As Lilly finishes she almost snatches the pad out of her hands.

"I know this..."

[awesome_lilly]

And instead her vampire brother got them? Lilly does not think this equals any kind of good thing.

"It's what the girl and the demon thing were fighting over, and Harth was watching them and he was holding one too, but it was the same one. Because um, dream."

[slayer_fray]

Mel nods, absently.

"Hang on..."

And she's off again, this time rounding into her own room, and after a long pause of much swearing and the sound of books being thrown on the floor, she returns with a book in her hands, flipping through the pages.

When she's found what she's looking for, she throws the book on the counter next to the pad, displaying a photographic plate of an identical amulet.

"This belonged to the last Slayer before me."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly's looking intently at the picture.

"That's exactly it, too. That's the one I saw."

She frowns.

"Oh, and there was something else, just as I was leaving. Like, chanting or or something."

She repeats it, slowly and carefully.

"Lathrak'an tei vors an... kin'elt a fora tei..."

[slayer_fray]

Mel's finger is tracing text opposite to the plate.

"That's not quite it," she says, "but it's pretty close. Why was he dreaming about that? I'll need to read more about this..."

She blinks up at Lilly.

"Thank you for telling me this, Lil."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly smiles at her.

"Hey, no worries. I'm sure if you had dreams about strange amulets somehow connected to my mysterious destiny, you'd tell me too."

It is entirely possible that the amulet of Lilly destiny would be pink and glittery.

[slayer_fray]

Mel frowns at the book some more, and grins up at Lilly.

"You got it," she says, shutting the book and retrieving her cocoa. "But first you have to tell me why there's hot pink nail varnish on my sword..."