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Who: You =D
When: Day 114, Evening and alll night long~
Where: In ur dreams
What: Dream post!

[Maybe you have gotten used to the regular hum of the HQ's engines as it flies slowly over a rippling canopy. Maybe you even find their sound soothing as you drift off tonight... Or maybe you don't drift off at all, maybe wherever you are, whatever you were doing, you just find yourself inexplicably sleepy.

Whatever it is, you end up in dreams. Your dreams? Or someone else's? It's hard to say.]

((OOC: DREAM POST!

For those of you who have never participated in a dream post, everyone interested in running a character's dream posts a top level comment and people comment to that to be in that character's dream. There are basically no rules about how it works! Be a lucid dreamer, don't be, figure it out halfway through, push and pull between who controls the dream. w/e have fun! If you need an OOC excuse to be asleep you can totally assume Rew's power just made your character unreasonably tired at some point. Solitary dreamers will find ocean waters rising in and drowning out their dreams, but Rew won't be making any appearances in this post.))

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[...god damn it, you took the guts with you again. He doesn't really wait this time - stomping off in the direction of that light again]

[before you get there, the blood suddenly rises

it also turns darker, close to black, and thick

it will suck you in and drown you if you can't stop it!]

[Oh stop that. Instinctively, he tries to grab for something in the darkness, a ledge or wall or something to use to haul himself up]

[but he doesn't want you here!

and yet Shirou's will is stronger, and so he manages to get himself a ledge

when he pulls himself up, he's in an auditorium where similar nasty liquid is just dissipating

from outside come the familiar smells and sounds of a city ablaze]

[It's nearly automatic, the way his pulse quickens, the way he feels his stomach sink, and his fingertips go numb. It's several long, terrified moments before he forces himself to move, looking for the closest exist. N o p e, we're leaving.]

[well you can go further into the collapsing, burning building

OR you can go outside]

[.....outisde. Outside very, very fast, which might be a poor plan overall, but the memories of being burnt and crushed underneath the rubble are becoming all too clear now, and he doesn't want to tempt that again, even in a dream]

[Congratulations, you're outside in a burning city.

The strange thing is that everything is like a short loop -- a flickering image that moves only a few frames before starting over. Here the couple from the rich house carefully escaping the flames and heading for safety and a waiting car. There a smartly dressed woman searching the destruction with business-like grace. Yet another place, Kirei laughing as he speaks to a man who is somehow regal in his nudity.

And there's Saber, standing in the middle of all of it with a blank look.]

[He's seen this all before - he was here too, or should have been, perhaps. The smoke stings his eyes, and he can almost feel the flames licking at his flesh, and in his panic he latches on to that image of Kirei that he sees. That's how it's supposed to go - his father is supposed to find him and rescue him, and he's certain that if he can just reach Kirei somehow, he'll be able to escape this nightmare.

Moving is hard, though, his feet are heavy, rooted to the ground, and he stumbles right into Saber]

[Saber is pushed to the side by that stumble, and suddenly he notices Shirou. The look he gives him, however, is dazed.]

...You're real.

[Nearly tripping, he grabs onto Saber's arm to steady himself and shoots Saber a rather disapproving glare.]

And? Let me out.

Do you want to die?

No, that's why I'm asking.

Hm...

I don't know how to leave, but if you die you might. I never do.

[baaack to staring into space]