Deep Dreams Are Made of These - Open

[tempredmental]

Who: Keith, Huntress crew, Shiro, open text message
Broadcast: Text
Action: Huntress
When: The night of and morning after the visions/nightmares

[Darkness. Stars. It’s nighttime and the ground trembles. A deep underlying sense of panic permeates everything, tangible in the way your limbs shake and the expressions on people’s faces, though specific features seem to melt away. The darkness turns to red, and the red turns to fire… fire everywhere, uncontrollable and hungry. It burns at your limbs and for a brief second, you see a world-- a planet-- engulfed in a wave of red-orange death.

The background noise is a strange alien wailing, neither male nor female, but it is deep and you find you can almost understand the words. They are strong enough to be word-feelings, which makes them a little hard to concentrate on with the chaos otherwise found in the vision.

<Fire.> <Run.> <Help.>]

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on the huntress

[Keith jumped up in bed with a yell, breathing hard. He didn't have nightmares often, but that sure was one. He rubbed his face. Was that... tears? He looked at his hands for a moment, noticing that they were trembling. Keith hesitated, but then eventually reached for the communicator.

After speaking with Shiro, he made his way out to the common area for a bit. He needed to get out of his room. After the common area, he went to the shuttle bay to beat up the punching bag for a bit.]

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private to Shiro

hey

are you awake

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next morning, after seeing a few posts on the network

so a few people had these nightmare vision things

i think we should compare what we saw

Comments

[tsunergy]

Is that how you deal with such things? Analyzing it?

[How very scientific... and familiar.]

[tempredmental]

I guess so. I mean, I was never really into symbolism stuff and all that. I just try to put together what I know to see how it all fits.

[Keith shrugged a little.]

It just... helps, I guess.

[If Mikleo had ever walked past Keith's room when the door was open, he might have noticed a lot of the information that was currently stashed in the Iskaulit's lecture hall copied and arranged on Keith's wall along with an erasable board he had things written on. To most people, it probably looked like an unorganized mess.]

[tsunergy]

Makes sense. Everyone has their own way, and that's a logical route to take.

[He's not familiar with conspiracy boards, but he's done plenty of analyzing with Sorey over the years, spreading papers and sketches and diagrams of ruins across the floor and piecing them together bit by bit, page by page. It's something he can appreciate.]

I think you're on the right track. If the emotional aspect of it was forced on you through the dream, try to look past it and find the message it's trying to send you. We had something similar happen on my world, and it turned out to be incredibly important.

[tempredmental]

Yeah... it was. Everything I was feeling definitely felt like it was part of the dream itself, instead of me feeling it in response to the dream.

[He remembered Shiro's advice about finding a psychic or someone familiar with dreams to help him with this.]

Have you done a lot with dreams, or visions, or whatever... or know anyone who has that's in the Fleet? It might help to have a few opinions about what I saw instead of just my own.

[tsunergy]

Nothing really with dreams, and nothing here, no. Not premonitions or visions... though I have had hallucinations that were likely caused by our captors. But they went away on their own, and nothing ever came of them except how I responded at the time.

[tempredmental]

Hm...

[Keith nodded. He was going to have to take this to the Fleet anyway. First, to find out if he was the only one. And second, hopefully someone could help figure out what it all meant.]

Thanks.

[He got up, finished with the tea.]

Both for listening and the tea.

[tsunergy]

[Mikleo manages a small smile. It wasn't much help, but until they no more there's very little he can do.]

You're welcome. I'm glad if it helped you.