Ari Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 "No harm done," Leroy agreed, "besides, we brought our own little demons here. We should be asking your pardon." Sitting next to Judy, he leaned back on his hands and watched the light grow. Under his breath he murmured bits of a song. We are alive Beneath HER light... "Also, 'cause someone's got to say it: odds are good none of us remembers any of this anyway. Most dreams just fade, good or bad." Dio was still sulking at a distance, but his great crocodilian head was raised to scan over the much-changed reality. "Fine by me, I don't want to remember, but if you people learned or figured something out thanks to this, it's a hassle." Leroy broke off, eyes sliding over to the dragon's own. "Yes...they are only our imaginations taking the reins. Whatever significance they may have is minimal." He turned back to the dawn, smiling "Either way, Victoria, take heart: this was merely an accident. You will grow in your power and a day will come when you step into memories and dreams with the power to heal and protect. The power to make a better world." "Shame we can't all have that," Dio said, "but we'll get by."
RocketLord Posted February 25, 2019 Posted February 25, 2019 Pan was starting to feel younger, once more. Look the part, too. He grinned, marveling as the wrinkles faded from his hands. The golden Pixie Dust still illuminated the area around them. Imaginary or not, a dream or not, it was a nice thing to look at it. Victoria was free from her power, it seemed. And she feared what they would think of her? Pan frowned at the thought. Awful, her? No! Before he could reach her, Judy was by the child, kneeling and reassuring her... though Pan did not quite agree with the reassurance. He walked to her, waving off Dio's comment. "We might remember, we might not. This is hardly a normal dream, is it now? Besides, it appears that we have seen much about each other. Learned much that we did not know before." He might mean himself. He had not told many at Claremont about how long forever had been so far. It was not something he often thought necessary to bring up. Maybe he should have told his teammates, but he had hardly thought it necessary. And at the same time, Pan did not speak of only himself. He shot a pointed look at Ashley. He wished to learn more of what he had seen in her nightmare. He did not believe for even a second that the Raven was purely the child's imagination. But not right now. Right now, Victoria was in pain. He knelt down besides Judy, reaching out and placing a hand on her shoulder, a warm smile on his lips. "I could never think such of you, Victoria. You are my friend, and you made a mistake. It is as simple as that. Listen to Leroy, he has the right of it. Your powers are not a bad thing. it is not something you should hide away in some closet and throw the key away. They are a wonderful thing, one that you must one day learn to control, one that you may one day use to help the world. Just imagine what you could do. There are many that could use a hero in their dreams, after all."
Avenger Assembled Posted March 2, 2019 Author Posted March 2, 2019 And then, they woke up. There was nothing particularly dramatic about it; whether they were curled up in a ball like Judy or tightly wound, teeth grinding in their sleep like Ashley, they bolted awake in the early morning hours to find cereal bars being passed out to the kids and the soft sounds of Minecraft from the television. The long night was over - and if Mardo, Victoria, and Anna were waking with tear-streaked faces as a half-awake Miss Lupine moved towards them, they were waking up smiling too. Children are funny that way.
RocketLord Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 Young again, no longer old. It had all been a dream. Pan opened his eyes and sat up. He could see the others waking up too. He lingered on Ashley for a moment. Until now, while he had gotten along with her fine enough, she had not really been that interesting, had she? But that dream, the image of the Raven and the destruction around them, and the way everything else had been a mix of the children's dreams and his own... well, now Ashley had started to become interesting. But it was probably something for another day, and another time. He flew across the room, landing by Victoria and gave her a quick hug. He was not about to let a misadventure such as this mess anything up for the young girl. No, she was much too bright a light for that. Laughter would soon replace the tears.
Ari Posted April 1, 2019 Posted April 1, 2019 "Another night done, eh Dio?" Leroy said, helping tidy up the children's bedding with the dragon's studied, methodical help "And who knows what the next might bring." Dio looked at him blankly. Which was usual, because he couldn't exactly mimic human faces without looking horrifying. "What-you know better'n I do what happens tonight! The schedule's on every wall, it's impossible to miss!" "It is a rhetorical device, disciple, to allude to the uncertainty of the future." Leroy folded a blanket with a flourish. Dio rolled his eyes and slithered down the line, delicately fluffing pillows back into shape. His human watched the pattern of Cosmo the Moon Monkey prance and gyrate with the movement of the cloth. Since waking up he'd shown no sign of remembering anything that had happened, besides singling out Mardo for an encouraging word, and seemed smilingly oblivious to any of the hints Judy might have dropped. His dragon apparently remembered everything about his nightmare, much to the green goliath's dismay. But once Leroy's eyes wandered to Ashley and her sister, and at the same moment something made Dio glance at them as well, before hurriedly turning back to work. But there was a lot to do that day, and in the press of managing a small crowd of children many things went unremarked or forgotten.
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