003 | believe me |

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

[ Wherever you are in your dreams tonight, you'll notice a particularly odd looking blue box with a man standing outside of it. His hands are in his pockets as he leans against it, grinning, looking at the landscape of the dream, which is fashioned to your liking. A city, hills, perhaps even just an open field or even a ship at sea. Tonight, the dream is shaped to your liking! ]


(( ooc: If we've talked things for the event this month, feel free to throw it in the subject! otherwise, no-event Eleven post. :D ))

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[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[She knows. No version of Usagi ever once concerned themselves with her - too busy with the prince, too busy with their other friends, too busy to even notice anything that had happened to Ami - or care about it once she saw it it right before her eyes.]

Are you saying I'm wrong?

[Answer carefully. She knows the lie.]

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I'm saying you're being thick.

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So I'm right. [She fills in the non-answer.]

You're pretty bold, still coming to complain to me. Let her come herself - if she's interested.

[Of course she was right. Of course Usagi wouldn't have even bothered mentioning her to this person who was close enough to Usagi to defend her.

She'd never mattered.]

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[ He put his finger to her face. ]

Do not make this into things it isn't.

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Then what is this about? What did you come here to do?

[Because in her view, she stopped listening at Usagi.]

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I came here because you wanted to see home.

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And you agreed. Why?

[The sharpness is met by a decided wariness and suspicion; she's already decided on the answer she believes.]

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Because I see you as a friend.

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[It's the last thing she expected to hear, and she debunks it - she thinks - in three simple words.]

Even after this?

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Of course.

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You're her friend. Not mine.

[This is a girl who hasn't allowed even her own lover to stay close to his other friends and comrades; only to her. That the other person in question this time is Usagi only makes it even worse.]

Don't treat me as a fool.

[She's not stupid enough to believe words of friendship from her enemies.]

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It is possible for the both of you to have the same friends.

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[This time, when she answers, it's stripped away of the bravado, the arrogance, even the anger. It's quiet but it's firm, and absolute.]

You can't be on both sides of a war.

[Even when it's not your war at all; oh, she knows it. She knows it in what happened when she dared to confess she was drawn to the kindness of the wrong person - a person who served Beryl, in another world where Beryl had appreciated that service, it was claimed.

But Beryl had been the enemy in hers.]

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There's no point in having a war in dreams.

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This may be a dream, but my intentions and my views won't waver just because of that.

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Then there's no point in dreaming.

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[There's not. Dreams are tantalizing at best, frustrating or even dangerous at worst. Besides:]

Dreams won't do me any good in reality.

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You would be surprised.

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[Somehow they've moved away from the truly dangerous territory, but she still disagrees.

She is not beloved, or sheltered and protected, or lucky; she does not wake from dreams into smiles and happiness. Her dreams, at best, are an escape.]

When I wake up from this dream, I'll never have come here right now. I'll never have been at the glacier.

None of this is real.

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Now that all is relative.

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Are you saying you don't know the difference between dreams and reality?

[Obviously, he does - or should; and that's why he should understand the futility.]

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I'm saying that dreams can have a profound impact on the waking world. Inspiration can come in the form of a dream.

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[That much is true; ideas, solutions to problems, those can still occur in a world entirely in the mind.]

Even then, it's the effort we make in reality that acts on those thoughts.

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Only if you chose not to.

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So making that effort is choosing not to do it?