001 | brand new day |

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

[ It's an unfamiliar site that you find yourself in tonight. An impossible room with different colors and glass floors, staircases that seem to go nowhere. At the center of the room is a column made of glass with panels filled with nonsense items: a typewriter, levers, hot and cold handles, even a phone! There's even a monitor hanging from the ceiling next to the man dressed in a tweet jacket and a bowtie. ]

No, this is definitely not the Eye of Orion... it doesn't make any sense! You're giving me nonsense, old girl, absolute babble! I know that the transfer might of been a bit confusing and backwards for you, but, no data whatsoever? What sort of nasty thing have you got in your time rotor this time?

[ Suddenly the man stops and turns and looks at you. He glances to the sides, shifting slightly, his hands flexing into small fists as he steps towards the edge of the glass ramp. ]

How did you get in here? No one can just walk into the TARDIS.


((ooc: intro post! ♥ this is a dream taking place within the console room of the TARDIS. if you have any questions regarding it, lemmie know! and, he doesn't know he's dreaming just yet. ))

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[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

It all depends on the level of consciousness.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

There's a level we call reality. [Which she says plainly, not to mock but set her stage.]

What we do in dreams won't necessarily affect that. Our attitudes, maybe.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Says someone who has never been affected by psychic pollen that can create realistic dream states.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[No, but she's familiar enough with the Dead Moon's power over dreams not to like the idea.]

Are you implying they can alter waking reality through the dreams?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

If you feel strongly enough in a dream about something, who is to say it won't carry over?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Seriously? She does not need lectures about ~feeling strongly enough~. When were her feelings ever enough to reach the person she wanted them to reach, or change anything? She makes a derisive sound.]

Don't tell me you're just peddling pretty speeches.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

You wanted to know.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

How can I believe something like that?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

You do or you don't. That simple.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Then I don't. [She may want to be convinced to - but she hasn't expected that.]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

And you go for the boring answer.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

I go for the true answer.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Your truth. Not everyone elses. That is the thing about truth. It's different for everyone.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Don't you think there's a truth people just don't want to find?

[Or maybe it's just her, who's always known her own true motives, her true despicable nature, but doesn't like to look at it full-on.]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Of course. That is when people attempt to rewrite their history.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

And if that's necessary to bring the future you want? What's wrong with it?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

You lose who you are. You sacrifice yourself for that future.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

['I want to do what I have to, but I want to stay myself.' 'Men lose themselves trying the same. What makes you think you're different?'

It's the same old theme. She really never comes far, does she? Mercury glances downward, briefly, introspective for just that moment.]

Is that sacrifice worthwhile?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

That depends on the future.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[A nod. He's right, of course.

And some things are worth it. That was the choice she made. When the future was destruction, sacrificing everything was fine if it prevented that.

Only... if it could have been resolved another way after all, what then? Is it enough to say 'I did the best with what I knew'? Is she fine with that?

These are questions that never bothered her at first, and she hates that they bother her now. Irritably, she snaps herself out of it.]

If there's a future that's worth it, I'll go for that future no matter what. I won't wait for a fate I don't want to see.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Then that is your choice. Don't let others change your mind.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[She's supposed to be like that, confident in her decisions, shrugging off the consequences for the sake of the benefits.

It's harder, in practice, she's learned. It's harder for that earnest girl who always questioned herself and her motives. Hadn't she gotten rid of that?]

I don't let others change my mind. I do what I decide.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Then why did you need reassurance?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[If she could answer that...

It's because she's not what she should be - a failure, Mio had never tired of reminding her in Econtra - and it left behind these ridiculous uncertainties she doesn't even understand herself.

She seems to consider the question awhile before her answer.]

It's not that I need it. But maybe I wanted it, for a moment.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Only for a moment?