two ○ voice / text

[mylegacy]

Who: Caesar Zeppeli & u
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: None this time!
When: Late night, 7/28

( joseph : voice : 1 am )

[The dreams are always the same. A great wind comes and cuts his skin; he is alone, and it hurts, but he doesn't cry out, his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth in the dry air. Blood bubbles out of his nose. He is very afraid.]

[He's pretty sure he doesn't make any noise during these dreams. No one's said anything, anyway. He could get away with keeping it to himself. But tonight something at the base of his skull urges him to tell secrets.]

[His voice, when it comes, is very quiet.]

Are you awake?

( public : text : 2 am )

I have questions about nightmares.

Do you have them? How often? What do you do to make them go away?


( ooc ; caesar is affected by augment glitches / compulsion! )

Comments

[mylegacy]

[He wants to be ready now, of course; he is a perfectionist, but he is also impatient, and his impatience has a tendency to take over in the worst of ways, at the worst of times. It's an effort to school himself into even a moment's patience now, so as not to appear rude to her after she's been helpful.]

I understand it will take time. [He understands. Just . . . doesn't like it.]

I'm Caesar. You're . . . [He doesn't know how to put this.] Are you just a counselor here? Or were you, before?

[tothefly]

[Always hard to be patient, especially for things like this. It's easy to tell yourself that you know what needs to be done, what will change things, another thing entirely to cope with your subconscious. It doesn't tend to follow things like schedules and waking logic.]

[His question gets a slight tilt of her head, a long, thoughtful look.]

I'm not a licensed psychologist in my world, no. Does that matter, here?

[mylegacy]

[He purses his lips, considering.]

No . . . no, it doesn't. I don't know why I asked. It's not like I'd ever met one when I was alive, anyway.

Just curious, maybe.

[tothefly]

Curiosity is fine. Guess it's natural to wonder.

What did you do, back home?

[mylegacy]

[He's come to realize in his short time here that this question is both very common and extremely difficult to answer. There's a moment of telling hesitation, as he tries to come up with a palatable not-quite-lie.]

Fight, mostly.

[It's incomplete, but also, all things considered, fairly comprehensive.]