Every Time you Close Your Eyes

[brodakota]

Who: North and Luna
What: North had nightmares and Luna attempts to solve all the Freelancers' problems.
Where: Hotel in Traverse Town
When: Night
Warnings: Mentions of AI Torture, death, and generally not happy things.

North has started having dreams again.

Although this time the dreams are more like nightmares compared to the confused wanderings of before. He's not sure if he's himself, or Theta, but there's mentions of security failure, and someone's died and he couldn't save them. He's not sure if it's South or Wash, or even himself who's died and that scares him. It scares Theta even more, and the dream continues with worries of things falling apart, the project, Maine, his friendship with Wash. There's the sense that it can all be fixed but Cactus usually wakes him up with a chomp on the arm before he can get any further. After that he's wide awake, and has to walk the halls of the hotel to offer Theta some measure of comfort.

Tonight, however, is one of the worst nights. The dreams are there with a vengeance, amplified due to Theta's anxiety. He tries to calm Theta down, calm his own thoughts down, and remind Theta that things can be fixed, that that's what happens next in the dream but Theta is too scared to respond, and North can't seem to wake up when he usually does. If Cactus is chewing on his arm, North has no idea, and his focus is split between Theta and waking up.

And he's terrified.

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[raisethemoon]

By now, Luna's not terribly surprised to encounter frightened Freelancers in the dreamscape. There's something strange about Agent North's dreams, though, something she can't quite put her hoof on. Perhaps the presence of the AI? She's never ventured near enough to the sleeping minds of York or Wyoming to compare.

Ordinarily she prioritizes children in her rounds. Adults, in her mind, can handle the occasional nightmare every now and then. Here, though, her duties are much lightened, so upon sensing North's distress, Luna turns her power to him. Manifesting in his dream, she finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings. Well, that's quite typical for a non-Equesrian dream. Fluttering her wings at the almost-palpable sense of anxiety in the air, she starts moving forward, looking around. "Agent North? Art thou near?" Surely she couldn't have manifested herself too far off?