Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:08 pm**

Sitting bolt upright suddenly, Samantha sucked in a breath. Her skin roiled for a moment in her distress, before calming again as she breathed heavily.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:13 pm**

Next to her Nailah was stirring as well, feathers rustling faintly. She didn't wake though, only mumbling in her sleep, sounding serious, almost agitated.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:16 pm**

Getting her bearings about her, she looked to Nailah and leaned close.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:25 pm**

"There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back." she sing-songs, then pauses.

"Well tell her that I'll miss our little talks."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:46 pm**

Samantha almost spoke up at that but paused, unsure if she should as she continued to listen.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:05 pm**

Apparently not, as she kept talking. She was obviously relating half of a conversation of some kind though. Meanwhile Sam could almost feel the Astral twisting around the Sphinx.

"Soon it will be over, and buried with your past."

It is hard to make out to begin with, but somehow this doesn't sound much like Nailah. It's much colder than usual.

"Your mind is playing tricks on you my dear."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:11 pm**

She placed a hand firmly on Nailah's shoulder, and as she felt the Astral start to distort the flock tensed around her, her mind casting outwards.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:16 pm**

And suddenly there was the impression that they were somewhere else. Details are hard to make out, but there are two shapes sitting across from each other, unmoving.

"Don't listen to a word I say."
"The screams all sound the same."

both of them seem to say at the same time.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:20 pm**

"I don't know who you are, but you let her go. Now."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:25 pm**

The two figures turn towards Sam, though it seems they're not actually talking to her but still each other.

"You're gone, gone, gone away, I watched you disappear."
"All that's left is a ghost of you."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:31 pm**

"That was all the warning I'll give..."

Her mind lashed out at them, the flock pouring forth.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:35 pm**

Sam's attack would not really find any purchase in the sense of a foreign mind connected to Nailah. It did seem to cut her trance though rather abruptly.

"We're torn, torn, torn apart, there's nothing we can do."
"I'll see you when I fall asleep."

And with that Nailah bolted upright, almost yelling to get that last part out, somehow still talking with both voices simultaneously.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:37 pm**

"...love? Love, speak to me. Speak to me."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:42 pm**

She rubs her head with one hand.

"What? What's wrong?" she mumbles, disoriented.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:45 pm**

"I'm... not really certain, to be honest."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:49 pm**

"Did I have a vision again?" she asks, jumping to the usual reason to wake up in the middle of the night to a confused Sam.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:50 pm**

"It didn't... it wasn't like a usual vision."

"I thought someone was attacking you..."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:58 pm**

She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.

"I dreamed... something." she mumbles, trying to hold on to the hazy memory. "Were you in my head?"

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:59 pm**

"I don't think I was. The Astral seemed to distort around you, and what you were saying... it didn't sound like you."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:10 pm**

"Why would someone try to talk through me?"

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:12 pm**

"I don't know. It didn't... didn't feel like it ought to."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:18 pm**

"Like what ought to? I haven't had many visions since... well since you let yourself be more aware of things..."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:39 pm**

"It didn't feel like there was someone there... I couldn't reach their mind, love."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:43 pm**

"So there... wasn't anybody." she asks, still a little befuddled being being woken up mid-dream. "I do remember talking but that has happened before."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:05 pm**

"And what do you mean since... do you think I'm affecting this?"

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:07 pm**

"No I mean you never witnessed it happening like this, I think."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:11 pm**

"So to you it was... just a vision?"

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:16 pm**

"I'm not sure. I think so, but when they happen in dreams they're even hazier. I couldn't even quite tell you what I was saying."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:23 pm**

"There wasn't only one person speaking. It was... almost a conversation."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:39 pm**

"Maybe that's just the shape it took? I once had a conversation with several people at different points in time, including myself..."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:41 pm**

"You said there was an old voice holding you back, then you said to tell her that you'll miss your little talks with her."

"When it finally came into focus it was two people saying these things... but all jumbled together at once. I couldn't make out who they were."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:46 pm**

"Well, I can't say that that's making much sense to me. Not yet anyway..."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:49 pm**

"There was something about... it being done soon, buried with the past. Then... being gone, being left only a ghost."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:53 pm**

"Rudra?" she says after a moment of thinking. "Though I'm fairly certain she's moved on. Maybe it was just a strange dream."

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:57 pm**

"Maybe," she said with a tone that still carried some doubt.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:02 pm**

"We'll keep it in mind, okay?" she says, noticing Sam's hesitance to let it go.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:09 pm**

"...aye. I'm sorry, just... hair trigger, there."

Posted: **Sat Oct 20, 2012 5:58 am**

"Hey, no need to apologize." she says, reaching for the journal on the nightstand.

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