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tuvishan ([personal profile] tuvishan) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-05-11 02:31 pm

the dreaming [open]

Characters: Tu Vishan and you!
Date: May 11th
Location: All over Keeliai.
Situation: Tu Vishan is attempting to reach out to the foreigner population, with... mixed results?
Warnings/Rating: Should be pretty tame. Will update if this changes.
Notes: This log is set at night, and characters are technically encountering him in their 'dreams'. He may or may not be exerting some subtle supernatural influence to make characters fall asleep, so if your character doesn't require sleep feel free to say he's done something to them. Technically, every creature in Tu Vishan would be sleeping during his little foray, so the streets are uncharacteristically empty.

This is not a predominantly plot-driven log. Tu Vishan is reaching out to people and may surrender plot details if the right questions are asked, but this is mostly part of his ongoing effort to become acquainted with people and the thread direction may stick solely to slice of life, depending on how your character chooses to direct it.

A character's 'dreamscape' should be shaped by their subconscious mind, so feel free to go wild with whatever you'd like. This includes details of their location and what their dream!selves might look like. Tu Vishan will appear to the characters as a young boy, between fourteen and sixteen years of age, and anyone he visits will have extremely peaceful dreams. It's considered a gift and a blessing to have been visited thusly by Tu Vishan, and one can expect good fortune in their futures if they are visited. Characters may also not remember perfect details of these dreams in the morning, or remember them at all. That much is up to you.





[The night is calm and still and on this night, Tu Vishan wanders.

He does not often take a form not his own, but there is a growing sense of unease in his shape, in his body, that he cannot escape. He knows it. He has felt his brethren sicken thus, and die. So for a time, when he can, he escapes. Like smoke, like a ghost, a breath, he escapes and he wanders.

The city is sleeping when he does so. He likes the cities at night, though the dimly flickering light of his shell is...

(Sad, he thinks)

--Inevitable.

He passes from house to house, between buildings and shadows. He listens.

'Keeliai' means 'Finality'. It is an irony he has never sought to correct. Instead, he stops at doors, on rooftops, in the empty rooms of old houses, and he thinks of all the lives scattered here. Small enough to be insignificant to him, but hardly that. He cannot so much as feel the patter of their movement across his back, but he is aware of each of them as a tiny heartbeat, an audible echo of life and hope.

When he finds a receptive mind, he will sometimes reach out and touch it gently. A calm, gentle reassurance. If they wish to speak with him, he is there.]
willofjustice: (joy)

[personal profile] willofjustice 2013-05-25 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[A pause on her end as well, eyes widening.]

Ah- . . . !

[It takes her a moment to recover beyond that syllable, and she bows deeply.]

I really . . . I'm so honored to meet you.

[There is absolute genuineness in her voice.]

May I . . . ask you something?
willofjustice: (be brave)

[personal profile] willofjustice 2013-05-25 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes soften.]

I hear that you're sick . . . There are places on you that are decaying. I'm a healer. The most powerful spell, Resurrection, can restore a human to life even when they're almost at death. I can't cure you entirely; you're so much more than me, but . . .

I feel like I could help. With a few places. The Emperor says it wouldn't help, but . . .

You bear us all. You're important to everyone. If I could do anything, even just a little . . . I would fight for that. Can I help you . . . ?

[As in, does he know if her spell could heal just a little of him? Then a small frown takes over her features.]

And the Emperor . . . she's so angry. Do you know why she's so angry?

[Her head ducks a little.]

I guess that's two somethings.
willofjustice: (look to the sky)

[personal profile] willofjustice 2013-05-26 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Even if it was just a stopgap . . . I would. Even if it was so very little . . .

[There are tears in her lashes again.]

It's only right. Just. I'm always too small. Too little. But. Even if everything else is bigger than me, I can't . . . just do nothing.

I can't just watch . . . Please don't ask me to watch . . .

[Her tears battle against his sense of peace. The sky above the flower field darkens.]