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Willow Rosenberg ([personal profile] guiltapalooza) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2011-03-16 11:55 pm

☆ 01

[Willow's been practicing, and practicing with intent. This is the second or third night of sleep that she's been at this. She's at a point in her life where she feels responsible, like she's the one who has to step up and take care of things now that Buffy's gone, so when Anya tells her that A, she's seen Buffy and it wasn't the Buffybot, and B, this is probably a dream, she immediately tries to deduce what's going on.

Conclusion: shared consciousness, as she'd thought. It explained a lot. Willow stands from where she'd been sitting cross-legged in absolutely nothing, and decides to try something else out. The current surroundings of pure, unrelieved white, massive blankness, are challenging to keep up. She'd had to stay in meditation for a good while to get it down, but she thinks she's getting the hang of this now. It's not so different from magic, just all mentally based and without the props.

Anyway, her new experiment. This takes a different sort of concentration, and in the fringes of her vision as she tries, the Summers house starts to bleed into the blank environment like paint on a canvas. An open, cheerful, lived in two story, it's a bit cluttered but clearly loved. Willow frowns in frustration, and it vanishes completely.

She tries one more time, and thinks she has it. When she speaks, it's directly to you, wherever you are - and if you answer, you'll find yourself suddenly, mysteriously beside her, in the way that abrupt shifts in dreams feel natural and unsurprising.]


Buffy, if you're out there, I need to speak to you. [The hard cast to her face, set and determined, relinquishes into an edge of vulnerability.] ... Please.

To everyone else - we're dreaming, and we're dreaming together. If you concentrate, you can learn how to change things, but it takes some effort to get the trick. Like riding a bicycle or learning to swim. I'd be interested to know what you've experienced so far; this is more than a simple dream.

[ooc: IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR CHARACTER TO KNOW THEY'RE DREAMING YET, her mental 'call' failed for your character and they never got it. As in, feel free to ignore this. Otherwise, proceed. This post is a placeholder - I'm going to bed and will get to tags tomorrow. |D]

[identity profile] auncyenhalig.livejournal.com 2011-04-07 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She nods. ] Better not to be complete strangers peeping in each others' dreams. You've seen what I do already. I'm a flower girl from the city of Midgar.

[identity profile] auncyenhalig.livejournal.com 2011-04-11 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She waves it off. ] Not that much information. Getting to know each other means no pressure! But it's nice of you to be there for her. And going to school on top of everything else ... wow. That's a lot to do. Big plans for the future?

[identity profile] auncyenhalig.livejournal.com 2011-04-14 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ The idea that Willow was a person of her own and not Aerith's imagination was being proved more and more by how the conversation took turns she wouldn't have expected. She'd meant plans for that schooling to be put to use, which she didn't think was too personal -- but then, she really didn't know Willow's life, so maybe it was. Goodness knew her own life could get complicated. ]

Okay. Hmm, I don't have anything really exciting going on right now, so how 'bout we wait until next time? And we can share if we've learned anything new about the dreams.

[identity profile] auncyenhalig.livejournal.com 2011-04-15 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! See you around, Willow.

[ Aerith gives a tiny wave and then turns away, nearly skipping off -- and fading easily from the dream. ]