onepassingnight | 002 | iridescent |

[ The dream tonight is a rather empty one, compared to the brilliant things that people could find themselves in. A simple beach surrounded by mountains, clear blue skies and a deep blue lake, and a small picnic area set to the side. The moon can be seen, despite it being day, rippling in the water. By the waterfront is an old station wagon, and of course the Doctor. He stands with his hands in his pockets, staring out over the restless waters, with his back to the dreamer.

He seems older than normal. He doesn't look a day older, but his shoulders are sagged and his head held as if he were carrying burdens upon burdens of the universe - similar to Atlas. With a deep sigh, he tilts his head back and looks up at the sky. ]

(ooc: This is Future!Eleven for the time event! As explained in the ooc post, it means this is the Eleven we see from the beginning of Impossible Astronaut as opposed to the Eleven from The Doctor's Wife. Your character doesn't need to be affected by the event to tag him, but Eleven will be acting as if he has known your character for nearly two hundred years~ )

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Maybe you need to look harder?

I guess I surely do but ... [ She looked out to the water again. ] I don't got no clue what I'm lookin' for.

Or how I ... [ Her brow furrowed in confusion. ]

Or how you...?

... got here. How'd I get here? I don't- [ She looked around again before finally turning toward him. ] I don't remember a thing. We had a job ... I think ...

It's a dream, Kaylee.

A ... dream?

No, no it ain't. You're real. I just gotta remember.

Well, of course I'm real! It's a shared dream.

A shared ... but that ain't possible. How can ya share the same dream with someone?

An' I can't be dreamin'.

Why can't you be dreaming?

If ... if I'm dreamin' then all of this goes away when I wake up. You go away.

I'm still real. This is a shared dream. Think of it as my mind and your mind have connected and the dream we meet in is the space our minds create. We are in two different universes, this is the bridge.

A what? [ She felt a bit like how she did when one time the engine had lost power and they'd been spiraling out of control until Wash did his magic and got them all sailing straight again as the emergency backup kicked in. Bridges and universes and shared dreams? ]

The space is a ... beach?

For today, yes. It's a beach.

How come it's a beach? I've never been on a beach like this 'fore. How can I be dreamin' of it?

Everythin's so clear.

It's my dream.

Why are ya dreamin' 'bout a beach?

You're a real good dreamer. [ Seriously, this is so clear. And it doesn't hurt her head as much to just accept, for now, that this could really be a dream. ]

[ He gives a small shrug. ] It'll be the last place I ever go to.

This is a real beach somewhere? [ Wait ... ] W-what?

It is. Place called Utah on Earth... my Earth, not your Earth.

[ ... first shared dreaming and now- ] There's more 'n one Earth called 'Earth'? Folks wanted to call one of the planets New Earth when they were terraformin' them after everyone left Earth-that-Was.