un: alice

[adventageous]

Name: Alice Elliot
Date: 8/5
Format: Video

[Alice looks into the camera, looking underslept. She never did go back to sleep after waking up several hours before sunrise.

More than that, however, she's determined to tug on this thread she's been given.]

I have a question for any of the Mirrorbound who are still left: did any of you have a strange dream last night?

I ask because I did. It felt as vividly real as the other times we've been pulled into dreamscapes, but this time I was alone. I was called to a large and pulsating flower in the forest by my own voice, which promised me whatever I wanted if I just stepped into it.

And then I woke up with this.

[She shows her right hand to the camera. It's marked with a flower (a striking a crimson against her pale skin, but that detail is obfuscated by the watch's sepiatone) that looks somewhat like a pitcher plant.]

I'd like to hear from anyone else this may have happened to, and compare notes.

Comments

[adventageous]

Given that the dream voice asked me to step inside of a large plant like this, I would say that the plant being carnivorous is more likely ominous than not.

I don't believe I recognize your username--to whom do I owe my thanks?

[sparkofgoodness]

[ Crowley has no idea what he's being thanked for, given the obvious nature of his observations, but accepting credit for things is always nice. That, and he's pretty sure any ambiguity about who was behind this username has long since lapsed. ]

Crowley. Never been personally eaten by a plant before but I'm pretty sure pitcher plants dissolve things. Not a pleasant way to go, but probably quite slow. Decent pair of boots and a knife, you might get out of it.

[adventageous]

[He gave her information she didn't have before! That's worth a thanks, Alice thinks.]

Should we encounter the plant in real life, those may be good protective measures to take. The dream seemed to make entering the flower optional, but dreams and real life don't often coincide.

[sparkofgoodness]

Oh yeah, never trust dreams or visions. Always a little bit of ambiguity in that stuff, space to allow for cosmic shuffling to make it seem like everything is going to plan.

[adventageous]

I agree. I promise I'll be careful.

[Alice has been burned by that before, although it was less ambiguity and more inevitability that did her in.]

[sparkofgoodness]

[ Great! Good!

Not that he was that concerned, but definitely good advice in theory.

Something else, though. ]

Should probably let us know if you keep having the dreams too. Or, you know, you spot this big possibly-carnivorous-plant. Just in case it does all mean something.

[ Also, because Crowley is relentlessly nosy and he has no intention of going anywhere dangerous but does want to know what is happening. ]