03-25-2019, 03:15 PM
they promised that dreams can come true
They were just gone. Just like that. Well, sort of just like that. Mom, well Kagerus, because Mom alone doesn’t really differentiate well, explained what was happening. Or, she tried to but Oriash didn’t quite get it. It’s hard to quite grasp why your parents are going into a self-induced dream coma when you aren’t quite a month old. The whole concept doesn’t really make sense. Somewhere in there it got distilled down to “we are going to keep your Mom (Solace) safe”, which made some amount of sense to Ori but not enough. She was sick, yes, but how did disappearing into a dream coma make her un-sick? It didn’t, she didn’t think.
She was pretty sure there were other powers that could make someone un-sick, because though she spent most of her time with her mothers, Ori didn’t live in a bubble and she wasn’t entirely stupid. At best it seemed like it just meant they were leaving her because it was easier to escape the pain and the truth and live in a dream world together. Certainly Kagerus didn’t need to go too, but she did, and they were gone. Their bodies were there, tucked away in some brush, but they were gone and Ori was on her own without even a guardian in place. For a while she just sits there, staring at their bodies, afraid of what might find them here. Little does she know, as their bodies meld into the brush around them, that she is the cause. They simply disappear from view, without the sound or smell of them left either. She has no control of the power that flows through her, no awareness of it, it simply responds to the emotions that churn within her.
She keeps staring, wondering if this was part of the dream coma, if that someone her mother had camouflaged them or simply pulled them into some dream world never to return again. There are no tears, just churning emotions that don’t show on the outside. Eventually, the little girl gets up on her gangly legs, the perfect combination of her mothers. If you knew them, you’d know her parentage. They’d stayed in the Cove all this time, tucked away now, but still in the Cove. Oriash knows the land and the faces from a distance, though she’s never really spent much time with the others. A little here and there, but mostly she stayed with her mothers. It seemed important, then, to spend what time she could with them. Though exactly what was wrong was a mystery to Ori, she had always known something was wrong. Neither of her parents had ever had the heart to tell her that she had been what was wrong – the pregnancy, not her existence, but the two could be so easily confused.
Now though, on a beautiful spring day and with no sign of her mother’s in the bush, Ori finds herself wandering through the land that is her home but not truly her home. She doesn’t who to turn to, doesn’t know if she should be sad or angry or just move on with her life. What was the point in mourning and missing something she cannot and will not have? She’d known her mothers, at least, and they’d loved her if only briefly. Why then did they both leave?
Ori shakes her head, coming to rest on the black sand beach, the stones the same as the obsidian of her hooves. Ori curls up there, in the shallows of the surf on the black beach, letting the cool spring water wash over the edges of her. What now? What next? She didn’t know, and so she simply stayed.
She was pretty sure there were other powers that could make someone un-sick, because though she spent most of her time with her mothers, Ori didn’t live in a bubble and she wasn’t entirely stupid. At best it seemed like it just meant they were leaving her because it was easier to escape the pain and the truth and live in a dream world together. Certainly Kagerus didn’t need to go too, but she did, and they were gone. Their bodies were there, tucked away in some brush, but they were gone and Ori was on her own without even a guardian in place. For a while she just sits there, staring at their bodies, afraid of what might find them here. Little does she know, as their bodies meld into the brush around them, that she is the cause. They simply disappear from view, without the sound or smell of them left either. She has no control of the power that flows through her, no awareness of it, it simply responds to the emotions that churn within her.
She keeps staring, wondering if this was part of the dream coma, if that someone her mother had camouflaged them or simply pulled them into some dream world never to return again. There are no tears, just churning emotions that don’t show on the outside. Eventually, the little girl gets up on her gangly legs, the perfect combination of her mothers. If you knew them, you’d know her parentage. They’d stayed in the Cove all this time, tucked away now, but still in the Cove. Oriash knows the land and the faces from a distance, though she’s never really spent much time with the others. A little here and there, but mostly she stayed with her mothers. It seemed important, then, to spend what time she could with them. Though exactly what was wrong was a mystery to Ori, she had always known something was wrong. Neither of her parents had ever had the heart to tell her that she had been what was wrong – the pregnancy, not her existence, but the two could be so easily confused.
Now though, on a beautiful spring day and with no sign of her mother’s in the bush, Ori finds herself wandering through the land that is her home but not truly her home. She doesn’t who to turn to, doesn’t know if she should be sad or angry or just move on with her life. What was the point in mourning and missing something she cannot and will not have? She’d known her mothers, at least, and they’d loved her if only briefly. Why then did they both leave?
Ori shakes her head, coming to rest on the black sand beach, the stones the same as the obsidian of her hooves. Ori curls up there, in the shallows of the surf on the black beach, letting the cool spring water wash over the edges of her. What now? What next? She didn’t know, and so she simply stayed.
Oriash
but they forgot that nightmares are dreams too
@Dawn and twins and whoever else feels like finding poor Ori