∟004 ► Voice | after four luscious days of dreaming bliss

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[Alex hasn't exactly been the best at sleeping since -- well, since before his brother died, really. There's his time in the hospital where they had him knocked out on medications, but he honestly has a hard time remembering any of that. Too busy living in his own little world, mostly. Since Silent Hill? He's not a fan of sleeping, period; having a few hours is good enough, and if Heather ever poked him in the direction of sleeping pills he'd have to pass on that for a number of reasons that's hard to really talk about, even with her. He's not too proud of his stint with psychosis.

But talking in general is getting easier (and maybe he should hit up that Irene chick for her heart-to-heart she asked for; maybe he will). Just like... sleeping has. In fact, he wakes up ten hours later with his eyes practically glued shut and has to roll himself out of a dreamy lounge. The dreams were good -- Josh alive and not cold and blue-lipped, Elle hugging him and inviting him out to the lake -- Murphy and Heather, acting as if nothing bad had ever gone wrong in their lives, meeting him for dinner somewhere. He dreams about living here in the ship, happy, content. Dreams that Josh would come here like so many of the dead do, and he could apologize and pray he'd forgive, and they'd get to try again. And he'd do it right this time.

Just... good things. Good -- no, great things. Even with his contentment in staying on this ship, if only for the family he's made... he hasn't been this fucking happy in a long time. Asleep, anyway.

Alex just can't bring himself to think good things just happen here. Not four for four. 

A borderline disgruntled voice comes through in an entry, belonging to a scowling face.]


Okay... ever since the jump, my sleep has been really great, and I've been having good dreams that I've never had before -- no signs of monsters or creepy shadows or... crappy life issues or anything that I usually have to work with; it's all really damn calming and I actually like all of it. Hell, I've been sleeping more than I ever have since coming on board. Since before that, even.


[.....]


Something's not right here.

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[chromosomes]

You too, huh?

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[unsoldiered]

... Yeah, me too.

Kind of horrible that something like this really sets off my alarm bells, but -- that's sorta' how the ship likes to operate, doesn't it? And like hell would I ever have a good night's sleep like this, after jumps, crushed corpses, and red smile entries.

[ I SMELL BULLSHIT ]

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[chromosomes]

Yeah, seems like. I haven't had a good night's sleep in months; no reason for it to start now, and not for several days in a row.

[ urgh. ]

Makes it harder to get out of bed, too.

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[toomuchtenacity]

[Oh good it's not just her, she was starting to wonder.]

Your nightmares are gone too?

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[unsoldiered]

Yeah. No rhyme or reason, just. Stopped.

I mean, I'm not as bad as I used to be, but this is pretty much a 180.

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[sweetmotherofgod]

Alex.

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[unsoldiered]

What.

[whats that tone young lady]

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[handelaar]

There's - nothin' weird, about yours.

[That's supposed to be a question. Oops.]

Or wrong.

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[unsoldiered]

Everything's very weird and wrong.

Just not in the way people would think, I guess. These nice dreams -- they just came out of nowhere. I don't trust it.

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[fuckinghysterical]

That's strange -- heheheh -- I've been able to sleep well lately myself.

But isn't that a good thing?

[Because sleeping well is something she hasn't been able to do for a long time. :(]

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[unsoldiered]

[o-oh LB ///

He's been dreaming pleeeenty about you...]

Could be... I mean, it's nice to see -- all that good stuff.

But I'm just worried there's something to it that'll screw us up later.

[Like usual, right?]

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[deprecate]

Are you sure nobody's just been helping you out? There's people can mess about in dreams onboard, after all.

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[unsoldiered]

Don't think so. Don't know. I haven't really talked to anyone about my nightmares before, anyway... If it is someone helping out, I'm apparently not the only one they're helping.

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[redhotsummers]

Nothing is ever right here.

It's just weirder than before.

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[unsoldiered]

Weirder, yeah.

But things like this make me want to get ready for the storm after it. Maybe I'm just being a little paranoid, I don't know... the jump felt pretty weird this time around, too. Can't explain it.

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[ironsights]

[ yeah, the fact that it's apparently a ship-wide thing is really suspicious, gotta agree that. ]

Maybe related to the uneasy feeling after the jump.

forever audio.

[unsoldiered]

I was thinking that, too. It's not like jumps are supposed to be rainbows and sunshine, but... this one just didn't sit right with me. More than usual.

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[suddenlycaptain]

Smiley told us to sleep well.

[ It's supposed to be helpful but Carolyn says it like everyone around her is a moron, so perhaps it's less so. ]

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[unsoldiered]

... Oh, great.

[Basically, read: the ship is doing bad things and smiley knows about it and well fuck.]

[voice]

[yardbird]

[Groggily, like someone who might've actually slept in today:] Mn, I thought somethin' was off these past couple of days...

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[unsoldiered]

[Yeah, Murphy, he heard you were having a shitty start to the jump.

Best to just sleep that shit off.]

What, the fact that you can sleep around here without all the crappy dreams we all seem to get?

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[coy]

So what you're saying is that having good dreams means 'something's not right'? [ paranoid much?]

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[unsoldiered]

Yeah, kinda.

[super paranoid

mostly because the ship does that]

Around here, nightmares are pretty much a normal thing. For a lot of us. Suddenly they're gone and replaced with really nice dreams? Something's fishy.

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[skindeep]

Or maybe in this small way, things are getting better here.

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...

[He relents with a sigh at that — because yeah. It's better. And maybe he should just accept a small good thing and prepare for the worst in the meanwhile. Hell, maybe they're just lucky and something got slipped in their crappy blue goo. Who even knows.]

That's true. Good things can be kinda hard to come by, sometimes.

It's just — been surprisingly nice lately. After the pirates and all that, kinda' feels like it's peaceful.

...

Minus the passengers being crazy half the time.