001 ╰☆╮ Dreaming after a battle {intro!}

[angeliquerebel]

Before this dream started there was a bright flash of white light, followed by a seemingly endless flower field appears, extending way beyond to what the eyes can see and at the moment Rinoa is not quite sure if it's accurate or not, there's even the distant sound of the ocean and it's enough for her to recognize this place as what it is.

The flower field behind Edea's orphanage, a gentle drift of wind sweeps by causing the sea of flowers to sway in rhythm with it, some petals even fluttering in the wind, the wind even move through the bright white feathers of her wings, ones that she hadn't even realized yet and even if she had she won't pay any attention to them at the moment

Rinoa moved further in the flower field, kneeling down her fingers touches one of the flowers, before a deep weary sigh escaped her lips and the wings slowly start to disappear, some lingering feathers being swept away with the wind. "Did we win or…?" Had they failed?

(ooc: *coughs* why yes the last thing she remembers at the moment is fighting Ultimecia, I am going with the assumption there was a quick passing out after Ultimecia blew up.)

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[drinkandforget]

"If you're here, that question is no longer relevant to you." This, in Lethe's view, is also why Rinoa is having trouble remembering the answer. (Or, in this case, was unable to see the answer first.) She steps forward, not particularly cruel in her visage but not particularly kind.

"You've already left it behind." This is the simple and absolute truth of the world, as she's experienced it.

[angeliquerebel]

Rinoa tenses a bit at the sudden voice, a voice she really can’t recognize and she turns around slowly, she is still a bit confused regarding certain things but not enough to at least not be in her guard, slowly she stands up to face the woman better. "What do you mean?" She frowned just a bit. "I’m not dead, am I?"

She didn't thought she was, since she will be sure she will be aware of that and well sorceress couldn't die that easily.

[drinkandforget]

She's heard those very words so many times. If this person is indeed dead, Lethe does not seem troubled by it. She ignores the question and instead kneels to pick a few of the flowers, before standing back up with them in her hand.

"These smell very sweet," she says irrelevantly. "Were they favorites of yours?"

[angeliquerebel]

The fact that her question wasn’t answered her bothered her a bit, but she wasn’t going to dwell on that for long since she will expect she was still alive. She looks downs at the flowers and smiles a bit.

"I guess you can say so." She favored orchids a bit more, but this place was special. "But this place means a lot to me, it represents something very important in my life."

[drinkandforget]

There's the answer Lethe wants. She'll lead Rinoa to her own answers now.

"Then is that why you came here right now?" Think carefully. "Was this a place you would want to return to in the end?"

[kaiserknuckle]

The flower fields are familiar. Well, not physically so but they remind her of the garden in the church that she visit every now and then, a similar scent, a similar layout.

The area itself is beautiful, even if Tifa's never seen it before in her life, and she moves across it slowly, squatting down after a moment to reach out and brush the petals with her hands. Aerith would have loved it here, she thought. And maybe Cloud, too.

Tifa turns as she hears words carried on the wind, and she stands, turning to face the girl with the angel wings, offering her a smile. "You won?"

[angeliquerebel]

Rinoa takes a deep breath, this is strange, she can feel that much but she can’t exactly place her finger on what exactly it is yet. She stands up, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear and looking around the flower field again; this was the place she was supposed to be after all.

The sudden female voice startles her a bit and she turns around quickly, before blinking a bit at the woman that’s there –one that kind of looks like her in certain aspects, now this is stranger. "I’m not sure if I did, though I can hope."

[kaiserknuckle]

"There's nothing wrong with that."

Tifa smiles, tilting her head to the side and looks slightly apologetic.

"I didn't mean to startle you, sorry. My name's Tifa."

[angeliquerebel]

Rinoa smiles back, she supposes there is nothing to worry about her since she is apologizing and even introducing herself. "It’s okay, don’t worry." She should after all been a bit more aware of her surroundings. "Nice to meet you, my name is Rinoa."

[findmyownreason]

It's a... flower field.

He expected to wake up in a flower field after losing his fight for the kids.

What he didn't expect was -

it's the wrong flower field.

He sits up too suddenly and it makes his head spin, sends the blood rushing to his head and blacks out his eyesight for a second. He knows he should be on his feet, sword ready for whatever came next but his arms and legs feel like lead and there's a part of him that says 'why bother?'.

Grass and flower petals fall from his hair as he shakes his head, eyesight clearing.

It's still the wrong field of flowers...

And what's Tifa doing - no. That's... not Tifa.

His voice comes out raw, rough at it's edges, as he asks:

"Aerith?"

[angeliquerebel]

This is their flower field, in that she can be sure, Rinoa suspects that the only thing she can do now is to wait for Squall or see what will happen next. With a small sigh she stands up and turns to walk to the orphanage, see if someone is there but stops when she notices the new man standing there, one she had never seen before and considering what had happened last she is a bit guarded when it comes to certain things and even people at the moment.

She looks a bit confused at the name, another draft of wind sweeps by, forcing her to raise her hand and keep her hair from getting in her face. "…No." She has never heard of that person but – "…who are you?"

[findmyownreason]

The ass kicking he's just received has followed him into his dream and so he's a bit stiff as he moves. But he does move. Because there's something about her that tugs on him at an instinctive level and that makes him just want to be nearby when she's there. Not too close, he doesn't know her any more than she knows him but when he stops just out of arm's reach it feels better, like a thread down his shoulders relaxes - just a little. He should feel wary. Instead he just feels... comforted.

"Cloud," he offers it, not expecting recognition. Girls in flower fields. Maybe Aerith's not the only Cetra lingering and each of them gets their own field of flowers. "Where am I?"

[angeliquerebel]

Now that she has been around enough fights with the rest, she can recognize the stiffness on his movements when he approaches her. She looks at him quietly, carefully examining him before deciding or more like feeling that he’s not a threat for her maybe that is why she allows him to get somehow close. She smiles just a bit at him, rather warmly despite that the circumstances are just a tad bit strange.

"Okay, Cloud…" No, she doesn’t recognize the name. "I’m Rinoa and you’re in…hmm I guess you can say just a flower field, unless you want me to tell you which continent it is?" She tilts her head a bit. "Are you okay though?"

[promotedpawn]

A flower field. It doesn't take him even a moment to realize it's not Beatrice's garden of golden flowers, or that it's a place he has never been in before. At least that he remembers.

Primo stands among the flowers calmly, a presence that is there and yet doesn't seem to fit, because there's no way he can fit in any world. He takes notice of the young woman and of her question. He has no idea where she's from or what she's talking about, yet he had no trouble giving his own opinion regarding what the answer could be. "Are you sure that matters here?"

[angeliquerebel]

The question is sudden and it startles her a bit, enough to accidentally pluck out a petal from the flower she was touching, she hadn’t meant to do that, she turns a bit to look at the person that had asked that, not really sure what to say for a few seconds, this was still a bit confusing and strange.

"Do you think it doesn't?" Maybe it wasn’t the best to answer a question with another question, but it was the best that she could do right now.

[promotedpawn]

"Yes, after all, this place doesn't seem like a place where a fight is being held;" he gestures to the flower field. Smirking a bit at her, "I can think of reasons for you being here both if you won or lost after all."

Indeed, this place looks more as a result and ending place, than anything else. If she's already here, does it really matter how she arrived there?

[angeliquerebel]

She supposes that he is right, but then, the garden’s battle happened not too far from here and she doesn’t knows if anyone made its way here during the battle, there had been more important things going on in that moment for her, like staying alive.

Moving to stand up, she turns to face him fully and tilts her head a bit. "And what are those reasons?"

[ladyhyperion]

Seira knew this field, she'd run through it as a kid on more than one occasion.

"Yeah. You did." She said, standing with Hyperion resting upright between her feet as she had at Edea's parade though her expression is more pensive than prideful. "For whatever that's worth anyway."

[angeliquerebel]

A sigh that Rinoa hadn’t realized she was holding escaped her in that moment when she heard that, they had won and that was all that mattered to her right now. Though the next comment maybe bothered her a bit, of course it was worth it; she stood up and turned to look at whoever it was only to freeze in her spot.

It was the gunblade that did it for her, she could recognize that nearly anywhere and then there was the scar, she looked at the woman and that was the issue there. "…Seifer…?"

What…wait…what…?

[ladyhyperion]

Seira gave Rinoa a look that was pure confusion, though only a little worried about the way the other woman had frozen.

"No. Did you hit your head or somethin' Your Majesty? It's Seira, I don't have a dick." She stated increduously. They had spent an entire summer together being... girly.

[angeliquerebel]

And now Rinoa is staring at Seira as if she’s seeing her for the first time, which technically she is because she had never seen her before, and for a few seconds she’s not sure what to say.

"Well…last time I saw you, well you apparently had one…" She blushed when she realized what she had said and how it could be taken. "I mean, last time I saw you, well, you were a man! And you had pushed me in front of Adel."

ohai >D

[waterfell]

This isn't what she'd expect of limbo, and that's coming from a girl who's been there several times. Mercury steps slowly through the flowers, and frost touches the ground where she walks. Her own wings are soft, feathery, and black. They wrap around her as though to cover her along with the sailor-style uniform and tall boots.

"If you won, shouldn't you be celebrating that with your companions?" Their absence is perhaps the most notable thing, to her.

Why hello there...how you doing? ~_^

[angeliquerebel]

It’s the light chill that alerts her first that something is off, standing up she turns around to meet the other person that’s now with her and the first thing she notices is the wings, then the light frost on each of her steps, but the more she look at this new person, she can tell there is something off but this person is not a sorceress so maybe it’s safe.

Rinoa blinks, her friends, she hadn’t exactly thought about them. "I promised to meet with someone first."

I'm ok! eager for our cr XD sleepy though. T_T

[waterfell]

"Someone more important than your friends?" There's a touch of a sly smile at the words; as she'd thought, those bonds means little. "How unfortunate for them!"

She knows the side of waiting, wanting to be important enough; she hates those memories as much as she hates the feelings associated with them. There's a slight edge to her outward facetiousness.

"And when you meet with them again, will you explain that?"

Sorry for taking so long, RL blew up on me as always.

[angeliquerebel]

Rinoa looked back rather calmly. "I never said that they were not important." Because her friends were, but she had made a promise to Squall to be here and that she was going to be waiting for him.

That promise had been something that both have needed, especially Squall since he was used to people leaving him and she had wanted to let him that she wasn’t going to do the same to him.

"They already know and they understand."