Dream 01 ❀ "Wishing you were somehow here again"

[purethingsonly]

Effects: A sense of longing and hopelessness that turns to a bit of anxiousness and excitement with a few moments of an unsure feeling.

[There's an odd scent in the air. Burning incense. Not a normal scent to burn either. What is it? You might not want to know. But there is a girl lighting candles in a dim little basement of a room with a hopeful smile on her fact that seems to like it. There are a number of materials scattered about.

Preparations for a summoning ritual.

There is something utterly dark and magical about the items and the preparations in general.]

I want to see him again...

[She doesn't say who at first, but he's foremost in her thoughts.]

Vincent...

[The sound of her voice is a bit unsure, and still it is longing.]

I have so many questions I want to ask you...

[And she goes back to her ritual, thinking to herself. It's not until the ritual is just about complete that she wakes up with a start.]

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[purethingsonly.livejournal.com]

That's perhaps more of what I should be, though honestly I never really thought it was enough.

But back home my brother was taken to a place called the Abyss. I wanted to help find a way to bring him back and the occult seemed the best place to start looking for information about a dark place like that.

[knightofchanges]

A little change and going out of your intended role never hurts.

The Abyss?

[purethingsonly.livejournal.com]

Still... I wasn't sure if I should really tell anyone that.

But the Abyss was something I'd once only considered a tale meant to scare young children when in fact, it was a dimension in our world devoid of humans and filled with monsters called Chains. A place where time doesn't flow at all. That's why my older brother returned ten years later without having changed and is now... physically my younger brother.

[knightofchanges]

I suppose the cat's out of the bag now, huh? [a small laugh.]

But what a strange place. It's amazing that he was able to survive.

[purethingsonly.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose so. But at least here I won't face quite as much trouble as I might have if it came out back home.

It is. And that's why I was so worried. But it's also why I'm so glad he survived.

[knightofchanges]

Was it strange finding your older brother now suddenly your younger brother?

[purethingsonly.livejournal.com]

It's still kind of strange. I grew up always looking up to him and following him around, but now to do so would be strange in the eyes of the world because I'm the elder, the one who seems to have developed the most. But I think he'll always be my big brother to me.

[knightofchanges]

I suppose that's what counts most, doesn't it? How you feel, anyway.

[purethingsonly.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think so anyway. [Pauses.] Though I've never really gotten the chance to ask him how he feels about it. [She hadn't thought about it that much before.]

[knightofchanges]

He probably doesn't mind it, but it would be an interesting question to ask.