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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2022 12:23:37 GMT
Its a dream again,
When he see's the blonde woman next these dreams will be refreshed in his memory. But right now they are in a grey space in the past.
The young woman finds herself in a cave....but not the sort of caves she remembers from her previous dreaming. A working mine, with slaves all in chains. They are tired men....broken men...hungry men. There are men who have tasted the lash of discipline and punishment. They have a strength to them and a hardness, but not a hale strength.....a sickly sort of strength to them. But in this dreaming sitting in the center of all of this is a familiar looking face with red hair.
His hair is dirty and mused. His body seems to have grown strong and hale even here. He has tasted the discipline and the lash but his body seems to have taken the punishment far better hen the others. Where he was a child there is a different sort of energy in his eyes. He is speaking in a strange sort of tongue almost meditatively in his dream. Its like he is practicing words of a language in his mind. With each syllable he tugs at his chain.
He then perks up for a moment and looks at her.
"I......either you are a good omen from the Sub and Unconscious parts of my mind or...." He is silent "Or something else. You said you were something else before. I might be inclined to believe you now."
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 15, 2022 12:34:18 GMT
Walking in the cave past the beaten though still working man she recognizes the taste of pain and perhaps hopelessness, despair or anger in the air.
In such a gritty setting her appearance this time would almost seem ghost like.
White hair, her cold light blue eyes this time instead of the course convent dress a white sundress. She does walk bare feet.
Now and then her fingers touches chains the cave wall. A rippling muscle of the workers.
Until she sees a familiar face.
Seeing he has felt the lick of the whip as well she kneels before him. Lays a hand on his cheek and gives him that same soft and warm smile he might remember.
"Your path has gone further i see.
Have you flown out the nest?"
She looks at his chains with a frown.
"I doubt i am an omen. Though i could be inspiration. And yes i told you, we both are alive. Sharing a dream."
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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2022 12:41:05 GMT
"Well...." He says nodding " I need to remember that's likely a thing that can happen now. Its one thing to know the idea of other worlds its possible.....entirely another to experience it." He concentrates for a moment and the chain vanishes and the dream moves along. Dio recognizes the routine of WORK. Brian is....watching the pattern.....watching the guards work. Now as the dream is playing out more of their words come into focus. He breaks out of the pattern of the dream and moves towards a door with a strange writing. "If I am right....this is the armory." He traces his fingers on the writing. ᚐᚏᚋᚑᚏᚔ
He then pushes open the door....a room of spears and clubs mostly.
There is a deeper brightness in his eyes.
"It....its been a few months since we last spoke. They've been running us on 18 hour shifts here. Some of the guards are talking about running me on 22 hour shifts next week. I'll need to act quickly."
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 15, 2022 15:29:05 GMT
Dio stands and when Brian freed himself she walks along.
Seeing the door and weapons inside she nods.
"22 hours yes. Cruel. What is your plan? Beat the guards gather weapons, run out?"
She looks further along the cave.
"Will there be guards outside?"
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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2022 15:43:33 GMT
" I've made friends. The guards dont know I've figured out how to speak to the others." I turn to her " I need to be able to demonstrate this is what I found."
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 15, 2022 15:56:02 GMT
Dio nods
"You need to be at the front. Show your new friends you will fight with them for eachothers freedom."
She smiles changing her meek stance to a proud one head high, chest forward, a cocky smile
"Show you are a leader, one not to be pushed over."
She folds her hands before her and relaxes her pose.
"Once you show you are confident and have found the weapons. Share them between your friends they will follow. They might even respect you or revere you.
But be weary my questing friend.
Leadership, to have people follow you is a crueler chore at times then 18 hours of physical labor. You will do nothing right, even if you do what is the best for all."
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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2022 16:42:09 GMT
The scene changes to the routine of the mining....there is one of the guards however who seems absent from the field of vision of the dream. Brian wanders to where the food is.
" This is where I started to figure out their writing."
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 15, 2022 19:25:45 GMT
Dio nods.
"Smart you waited and learned. Took time and observed. So this already passed. Where are you now? Have you already freed yourself? Or are you about to?"
She looks at the guard, the writing. calmly walking about, clearly more confident in her abilities and surroundings.
"There are in every world you could visit a form of slavery it is a thing of the living. To create a caste beneath oneself. The insecure can only feel confident and secure that way.
It shows of a lazy or a unstable rulership.
At a point one can no longer control the raging masses who are building up from the pits. "
She turns to Brian with a smile on her face, soft warm, kind.
"Do you need anything young warrior?"
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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2022 19:36:34 GMT
" on the cusp.......you always find me on the cusp of things it seems. We had abolished slavery on the place I am from. But....my dad made sure I did hostage training."
I sigh softly " I've practiced the scene in my head. The moment when the shift change of the guard....is about to happen."
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 15, 2022 19:41:03 GMT
"I do not know if i found you or if you called for me, I do wander about in dreams. Though this is clearly not something my mind would be seeking. "
Turning again to Brian.
"So the guard shift is about to happen. then what do you do? go over it with me. Let me be your soundboard for now to test it out loud. "
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Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2022 19:49:30 GMT
I play out the lunch fight, powering through the armory.....and then fighting the guards. Seizing the keys....but there is that one guard still in a blind spot
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 16, 2022 7:15:26 GMT
Dio walks as an observer along with the events.
With the guard in the blind spot she first stands where Brian is. Then she goes to see from where the guard could be visible.
"This is tough and might require a touch of luck."
She says as she is pointing to the guard.
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Post by Brian on Oct 16, 2022 8:22:54 GMT
I frown looking at the guard I concentrate and show a few other scenes. Hes always out if Brian's vision....even when that doesnt make sense.
" my mind has noticed something about him....even if I dont understand it."
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 16, 2022 8:25:36 GMT
Dio stands before the guard studying him.
"What have you noticed? Try and put words to it perhaps it helps to understand."
She smiles turning to Brian.
"I couldn't know or see i have not seen this person in reality only here. So all i see and know is what you see and tell me."
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Post by Brian on Oct 16, 2022 8:43:14 GMT
" I dont know what I've noticed. I think that's what the dream is telling me....not at a state where it's clear to my mind."
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