@ Stone, audio | December 5

[scarsolderthanyou]

Who's shitting great idea was it to show some people something out in the middle of the lake and then kill them when they try to find it again?

[The querulous old man voice is currently very angry-sounding. There's a weird rumbling in the background of his voice. Stone might actually be... growling? Yeah, he's definitely growling.]

Did anyone see what did it? I want to find whatever that was and tear their throat out.

[He's a bit bloodthirsty when he's pissed off. Sorry, kids.]

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[onlyeverdoubted]

...Your dream experience was apparently a lot clearer than mine.

[scarsolderthanyou]

[Stone motions for Bodhi to come along. Might as well get out of the church and out into the open.]

It wasn't like any dream I've ever had. Eliot called it dream magic. What was yours like?

[onlyeverdoubted]

[He's still not used to the way the word magic is applied, like it explains every stupid thing that happens. Presumably he just doesn't understand the rules and they do exist, but still. He's used to being able to get his head around things.]

Not much to it. I--we, I guess, they were, uh, shared somehow?

[He certainly didn't realize it at the time.]

Wandered around the town hall--that's, uh, what I heard it called? There were some odd notes and voices, and one creepy flier, and then it got a bit gory at the end, but, you know, dreams. None of it made much sense.

[Bodhi's dreams are usually frustrating, inscrutable, and unpleasant.]

[scarsolderthanyou]

So you died in yours, too, huh? We got eaten by a big metal underwater building. But there were boats all going out across the lake, and into an underwater tunnel, and we were basically shoved into one by the dream. So it seemed clear enough that's what we were supposed to be seeing.

[He frowns around at the church.]

What kind of creepy flier? Did it say anything?

[He assumes Bodhi means a flying person or thing, not a piece of paper.]

[onlyeverdoubted]

[The word is second-hand for him, too. Paper barely exists at home. All of which just makes the confusion worse.]

Something about a... ride? Like, the kind they have for children that spin you around fast? Only. Um. The words 'painless' and 'humane' were used.