Dreaming on Prospit | Open to All Prospit Dreamers

[cuteandquarky]

When Jade woke to see her world bathed in gold, she smiled.

For as long as Jade could remember, she had dreamt here, in this golden fantasy land with spires and towers. She could fly through the air as long as she willed herself to, and she loved talking to the strange, paper-white people who lived here. They called her titles of royalty, like "princess" and "my lady," but Jade refused to be at all queen-like. She didn't care for power; she just wanted to have some fun while she dreamt, and if that meant dirtying up her golden dress a bit, then so be it!

There were others here - humans like her - whose faces she knew well at night, but faded from memory when she awoke. They weren't always here. Most of them lived in a separate building, apart from the boy who lived in the tower next to hers, and since he was sometimes asleep when she dropped by, she assumed the same must have been true of the others. Still, when they were awake, she enjoyed 

Jade sat up and stretched out, letting feeling return to her body. She felt more powerful here, like she could spin the world at her fingertips if she wanted to. Not that she'd tried. (Yet.)

She poked her head out of the window of her tower and then jumped right out, soaring through the skies with a triumphant laugh. She couldn't wait to see what kind of adventures the golden kingdom of Prospit would give her today!


((OOC Note: please feel free to mingle with other people's opening posts here! Not everything has to be a direct response to Jade - this is just sort of a free-form catch-all for people that want Prospit adventures.))

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[cuteandquarky]

Jade loved floating through the gardens - she loved gardening in real life, so of course when given the chance to visit a fantasy-like dream garden, she was all over it. She hovered a few inches off of the ground, leaning in to smell each fantastical flower. They smelled impossibly like flavors, this one chocolate, this one strawberry, and she loved every minute of it.

As she floated along, however, she nearly ran into another person - a human, most notably. Jade recognized her face, much in the way someone might recognize another student they passed in the hall, but she couldn't claim to really know the other girl. Yet the blood on her mouth immediately caught Jade's eye.

"Oh my gosh, are you alright? You're bleeding!"

[drawntotheflame]

Kanaya looked up from the blood on her hand. Another person! Kanaya didn't think she knew the girl. She was dressed just like Kanaya, and her earnest expression and wild hair did seem quite familiar...

"Oh, hello," she said from her seat on the tree, her accent providing a lilting quality to her voice. "Yes, I'm alright, I just bit my lip by accident." She attempted to wipe the blood from her mouth and only succeeded in smearing it further up her face.

She tossed the apple in her hand over her shoulder and looked at her sticky hand, not wanting to dirty the pretty silk of her gown. She had nowhere else to wipe it, however, and just made due by placing both of her hands on the branch.

"I'm Kanaya," she said. "I would shake your hand but I am afraid they are both unsuitable for the task at the moment." She smiled at the girl, her growing eye teeth poking over her bottom lip a bit.

[cuteandquarky]

"Um. Yes, I don't think that now is the time to be worrying about handshakes!" Jade agreed. "You should see a doctor or... something."

Come to think of it, Jade couldn't remember ever seeing a doctor here. Prospit had always felt safe and secure, like the sort of place where injuries simply didn't happen. The worst thing that Jade could remember happening to her was banging her elbow on a door, and even that didn't hurt for very long.

"Does it hurt? Oh, and my name is Jade by the way!"

[drawntotheflame]

"No, and actually..." Kanaya opened her mouth and lightly ran her tongue over where the cut had been. "I think it's already healed. How strange... But I suppose that makes sense." She gazed slightly to the left and below Jade's head while she pondered. "I've been dreaming here for years and I don't believe I've been hurt before. Perhaps wounds heal so quickly I don't remember them."

[cuteandquarky]

"That would make sense. It does seem like it would be hard to get hurt here, even with all of the flying around and sharp spires and stuff. That's nice of them, though!" Jade noticed the odd placement of Kanaya's eyes and leaned over to the right to see if she was just staring into space, or if her eyes would follow. But she wanted to keep talking, too.

"Um - so you've been dreaming here for years? Do you also have a dream tower somewhere?"

[drawntotheflame]

Kanaya snapped out of her reverie and focused on Jade again. "I do. You can come see it if you'd like." She thought it'd be nice to finally show off the pretty curtains and the normal-looking plants to someone. This was the first time she could remember talking to anyone here for so long. The carapacians were often friendly and willing to speak to her, but then they had to quickly scurry off to their tasks.

Kanaya pushed off from the branch and gently descended until she was kneeling by the shallow stream. She cleaned her hands in the water and then turned to look up at Jade again, shaking off the last few drops. "You said also -- do you have one? I think I've dreamt of my friends before, but I don't think I've seen you around." This time seemed different, somehow, too. More clear than before.

[cuteandquarky]

Jade's eyes followed Kanaya as she drifted towards the fountain, watching curiously. It was always interesting to see another person flying around here - the carapaces never showed any capacity for it, though all of the humans she'd met so far did.

"Yes, I have one too! And... I don't really remember seeing you around before, but you seem familiar somehow!" Jade shrugged. "Maybe I just saw you in passing or something. It seems easier to forget the stuff that happens here, somehow."

[drawntotheflame]

"Yes... but even if we can't remember it all, at least it's beautiful. And there are enjoyable things to do. Like flying." Kanaya kicked off gently, floating until she was eye to eye with Jade.

She looked around awkwardly. "How do you think these plants work, in any case? They're completely golden, but I'm certain they're alive." She leaned down to touch a flower, but stopped suddenly. "What's that noise?"

Kanaya's eyes flew open in her real bed. Her father's alarm had gone off. The first rays of dawn were streaming through her curtains. She squeezed her eyes shut and rubbed her face, and was startled to find blood on her lip. She stretched her mouth. No pain. Had she somehow really cut herself and healed so quickly?

She hurried to the bathroom and washed her face and hands, then examined her lips. Yes, definitely no cut, but... had her eye teeth always been so sharp? She touched one gingerly. It didn't hurt. She twisted her mouth. "Hmm."

During breakfast she remembered her dream, and cursed the distraction the blood had caused. Now she hardly remembered anything. But... she did remember there was a girl. And how real it seemed. Maybe she'd be able to meet her in her dreams again soon.