[Eight] Video

[buymedumplings]

[It's a dark room when the feed starts. There's a little whine from behind the camera and if you know your Dream Eaters it sounds like it might be a Meow Wow. The creature shuffles closer and the dim light from the doorway can now be seen bathing the face of a familiar young man: Bolin. He's broken out in a sweat and is tossing and turning like he's restless but he's also not waking up.

He whimpers and curls up on himself.

Ping whines again and then there's a bleating of as a Tama Sheep, Chi, appears. Chi has had enough of this apparently and she bleats again and then rams herself into Bolin's stomach. He yelps and falls out of bed from the impact, disappearing for a moment on the other side of the bed. Ping drops the communication device and jumps over the bed with Chi.

Bolin groans and finally appears on the other side of the bed, rubbing at his face.]

Bwuh? What are you guys doing?

[Ping nuzzles Bolin and he notices the fallen communication device.]

...Seriously, what are you doing? I was sleeping.

[He rubs at his face and then stops. He shudders, recalling the dream or nightmare he'd been having. Chi nudges him with her horns again, this time a bit more gently though it still causes Bolin to tilt sideways a bit.]

Oh...uh...better get the communicator before we wake anyone.

[Kyoshi, the Kooma Panda, picks it up in her claws and hands it back to Bolin. He avoids looking at it because he knows if he does they'll see the troubled and sad expression on his face. He shuts if off.]

Comments

[buymedumplings]

Sora? I didn't wake you up did I?

[Bolin looks tired but he can't go back to sleep either.]

Hmm...yeah looks like nightmares are back. I wonder why this keeps happening.

[dork_of_keys]

No, I was up already.

[Of course, Sora was awake rather than still tossing and turning because Jelly Bean had decided he had enough of not being able to do anything about his person's Nightmares and decided to drag him out of bed by the seat of his chocobo-printed pajama pants. Incidentally, Sora's current activity to keep his mind occupied is mending said pants.]

Well, they weren't much a clue the first time. The second they showed stuff, well relationships, breaking and then being mended and after the boss we found the Keyhole by gathering three people around it. I'm not sure what to make this theme. It's... conflict, I guess, and there is an enemy to deal with on that ship.

[buymedumplings]

Do you usually wake up this early?

[Bolin leans back, apparently getting comfortable.]

Maybe we need to find the invisible guy first. Or...you don't think it's encouraging us to get in a fight with each OTHER do you?

[dork_of_keys]

... No.

[Sora checks his work on the pants before turning the communicator around. The rustling of fabric is a good hint as to why he did so. It's still turned away when he starts talking again.]

I wouldn't be surprised. That guy, or monster or whatever, it pretty dangerous...

[And then the latter statement registers.]

I should hope not! I can't see that doing us any good.

[buymedumplings]

Yeah, I've been avoiding the ship myself. I can't use earth bending on a metal ship unless I'm bringing in my own rocks. But that aside, it's still going to be hard to fight something we can't see.

[He hasn't encountered it obviously since he hasn't been aboard the MoI much. He nods.]

You're right. Why would we need to fight each other anyway, that'd be silly.

[dork_of_keys]

It hits pretty hard. And it's fast. I'm not sure how much help it would actually be to be able to see it.

[He's lucky then.]

I just wish we had some idea of what we do need to do in this case...

[buymedumplings]

Well we'd be able to counter it a lot more effectively. Just because it's fast doesn't mean we can't hit it...eventually.

The hints are never very clear, are they?

[dork_of_keys]

[Sora shakes his head. Yeah they could eventually hit the thing once they could see it. But how much damage would it do before then? Although, thinking about it now... he's starting to get an idea.]

No, they're not.

[buymedumplings]

I was never very good at riddles either.

[Sigh.]

[dork_of_keys]

Me either.

[Nor any other real brain work, now that he thinks of it. The puzzle in the mansion was easy enough, but that was because it was a video game type puzzle and Sora's not too bad at those.]