driftfleet | voice. a quick sad post.

Who: Sam Winchester
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: Red Fish
When: after a sad shuffle :C

[Sam's very much subdued the day that Dean vanishes. If he reacts more viscerally to it, to knowing that this Dean was returning to his inevitable death at Sam and satan's own hands, nobody'd know it — he closes himself up in his room, keeps himself distant for a little while. It helps, because it also gets him away from those damned echoes that have begun to snowball. He's tried his best to ignore them, and with Dean suddenly gone... he doesn't trust himself to be anything but stressed at the sight.

Anyway. Um. Best to move forward, right...? Get back into things. Working at the bar keeps his mind busy, as does helping with the garden, and there's also helping with the weird messages from the planet, and — dammit, Sam, get back into things. Fake it 'til you make it. This too shall pass, if you pretend hard enough that you're fine. So he breathes in deep, breathes out, and addresses the fleet.]

My brother, Dean, um. Dean Winchester's left the fleet. I wasn't sure how many people knew him, but...

[A pause.]

Anyone want to talk? I could use something to keep me occupied. Your choice of topic, just shoot. I can be a pretty good listener, too.

[Help me get out of this funk, huh.]

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Yeah.

[He tries not to pay attention to the echo. But, uh. It's hard.]

It's not -- a ghost, though. It's just... an image. It's not real.

...uh, Sorry.

[Well Vash is certainly trying to pay attention to the echo he can't see. Looking left-right, up-down, any direction he can think of to try to see her.]

Sh- she's not? But you can see her? So she's here, isn't she? Where is she?

[Sam seemed to sincere to be pulling a really terrible joke on him.]

At your right.

[He shakes his head, regretting this whole thing immediately.]

I see her because... she meant a lot to you.

But she's not really here, Vash. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything.

[Vash's head immediately turns towards the right. He's not surprised that he doesn't see anything, but he is still a bit disappointed. He holds out an empty hand for the echo to take. Again not surprised, but still disappointed when he doesn't feel anything.]

She was. She meant a whole lot. She was very important to me.

[He shakes his head and smiles brightly at Sam. If he means that smile or not is anyone's guess.] No. No, it's fine. Really. It means that she's always with me, right? And if she's an image and not a ghost it means she's not being hurt, right?

[He smiles sympathetically.]

I know the feeling.

Still -- sorry anyway. This is all, um. Kind of new for me. Haven't always had these images.

Is it new in since you've arrived on the fleet? The last few days? Or developing just before you arrived?

[Mostly curious if it's a glitch or possibly something else. That and now he's more trying to distract himself from thinking about Rem than any real interest at the moment.]

[He shakes his head.]

I've, uh. Had them for a short time in another world.

They started up again since I showed up here, but... they got worse after that weird planet with the tech on it. The one that blasted that weird energy. When it happened, it made it all more common.

Luckily, I don't... see it 24/7, but it happens in doses.

The weird energy. Hm. Maybe it awoke something in you? Was there something similar that started these visions in the other world?

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