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[imaginate]

Characters: Eridan Ampora, Garrett Hawke, Hal Jordan, Jim Kirk, Kyle Rayner, Mark Grayson, Pavel Chekov, Tony Stark, and Yousuke Hamamura.
Date: March 10th - 15th.
Location: Hawke, Kyle, Mark, and Chekov in an Earth Sector warehouse; Eridan, Hal, Jim, Yousuke, and Tony in the Metal Sector warehouse.
Situation: Exploring the Dreaming plane.
Warnings/Rating: None, will be added later if necessary. Starters in comments.

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[imaginate]

[At first he can't even tell it's not his own landscape. Coast City is a ruin too-familiar to him, and Hal's shadow over him always felt long and inescapable. It's maybe only fitting he sees it too, picking his way past the broken buildings, but unlike his own dreams, it doesn't automatically change to an empty field, with Hal's statue anywhere in sight.]

[Kyle stops dead, looking at the area more closely. The steel - that's not his, he couldn't possibly have noticed or cared about it enough to reconstruct it like this —]

Hal?

[It's a bare whisper at first, then, he shouts:] Hal!

[animosus]

[At this point, Hal's sure that Kyle's voice is just a part of this weird place. He barely remembers anything from that point onwards until his resurrection, but he knows that Parallax clashed with Kyle a few times. He's not sure what to expect. He doesn't hold any bad will to Kyle, but at the same time his friends seemed to be weirdly biased against him.

But regardless of whether or not this was all part of Dreaming, it was something new and he had to investigate it.]

Kyle? [He heads towards where he thought he'd heard Kyle and unseen behind him his shadow starts to stretch out and lengthen.]

Over here!

[imaginate]

[He finds nothing around the first few corners. The place is probably making itself a maze because he's beginning to feel that it is - Hal's shout came from.. over there? Or in the other direction? Inwardly frantic, he keeps looking, jaw tightening.]

[His shoes crunch on some broken glass and he swears, kicking them off and imagining new ones in their place. It's not a big deal; he can get more later.]

[He finds the shadow first, and wanders towards it, approaching Hal from behind.]

This is weird, huh?

[animosus]

[There's a symbolism here that Hal doesn't understand or see. His shadow stretched out before him and covering Kyle, but why should he. He knows the wary reactions of his fellow Leaguers when he first came back and what his actions had cost the universe.

Like he told Barry, he died a sinner.

Anything positive he's managed to build up should have been a result of his actions since his return. And Kyle's more than managed to prove himself several times over. If anything, Kyle's the one that deserves to be touted as the one of the greatest.]

It is. [He scuffs his foot on the dirt. The movement travels oddly through his shadow and it ripples and seems to widen slightly.] Think there's supposed to be some message in this?

[imaginate]

[Kyle sees it. Or rather, he feels it, stepping out of the shadow where he can, annoyed that it seems to be following him wherever he walks.]

What, like a subconscious thing? [He snorts, derisively.] Sometimes there is, but it's what people create, not from the place itself. As far as I can tell.

[animosus]

What we do? Sounds like this whole place is a giant ring. [They knew how to shape things using their will so it couldn't be that different to will his shadow to cut that out.]