Dt10: Dreamweaver

[Lily Nicks]

(Open thread)

The common room was filled with bubbles.

To be fair, they weren't actual bubbles, just projections. Lily's avatar was hovering in the middle of the room, blowing multi-colored bubbles that drifted through the room.

[Alex Carpenter]

Alex looked around as he walked in, trying to pop a bubble and (obviously) not being able to. "Okay, that's new..."

[Lily Nicks]

"Oh, wonderful," Lily 'says', her voice being telepathic instead of vocal, "New setting. New characters."

Drifting over to Alex, she looks him over, "And who do we think you are?"

[Alex Carpenter]

Huh? "I'm... um... Alex," he said, a little thrown off by the odd way she was talking.

[Lily Nicks]

"A conqueror!" Lily exclaims, clapping her hands together, "Fun, fun, fun."

"I'm Lily. I'm a flower," Lily says, "...No yonic symbolism intended."

[Alex Carpenter]

"Well, I don't... know that I'm a conqueror..."

[Lily Nicks]

"A wishy-washy conqueror. Interesting," Lily says, floating around Alex in circles, "And who's your friend? A fellow Macedonian?"

[Alex Carpenter]

What's wrong with this girl?

She's pretty, though. Even if she's not really here...

"What friend?" he asked, a little confused.

[Aisha Khan]

"Um, hi." Aisha said "You can see me?"

[Lily Nicks]

"Of course, but that's not who I'm talking about. I meant, Tweedledee right there," Lily says, pointing in a vague direction next to Alex.

[Alex Carpenter]

"Oh, hi, Aisha," Alex said, glancing (uselessly) back toward where her voice came from. "How've you been... um... wait, what?" He looked back toward Lily, confused. "THere's... just me."

[Lily Nicks]

The bubbles fade away and Lily produces a pair of bifocals, a pen, and a notebook from out of nowhere.

"Very interestink," Lily says, scribbling in her notebook before floating over to Aisha.

"You're cloudier then most characters," Lily says, looking right at Aisha, "What do you stand for?"

[Aisha Khan]

"I'm a person." Aisha said "I'm invisible, usually. I am invisible, right?" she asked Alex.

[Alex Carpenter]

"Yeah, you're invisible," Alex confirmed. "She thinks I'm two people, though, so... yeah."

[Lily Nicks]

"You are two people, even if you don't know it."

"If you're invisible does that mean you don't want to be seen or you feel like you aren't seen?" Lily asks Aisha.

"As for you, we're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad."

[Aisha Khan]

"It means that people don't see me." Aisha said "Most of the time."

[Lily Nicks]

"That's a very boring interpretation," Lily points out.

[Alex Carpenter]

"Well, how would you interpret it?" Alex challenged.

[Lily Nicks]

"That's what I'm trying to do," Lily says, rolling her eyes, "And I'm not being mean. I'm just curious, but if it bothers you I'll drop it."

[Alex Carpenter]

"I... what? No one said you were mean..."

Oh god, this is too weird...

[Lily Nicks]

"No one that you can see or hear, anyway," Lily says, sitting cross legged, "Isn't that interesting?"

[Alex Carpenter]

"I'll... take your word for it," Alex said. "So... where are you from?"

[Aisha Khan]

"Excuse me, but I DO actually exist."

[Lily Nicks]

"The City of Angels," Lily says, offhandedly to Alex.

"Of course you exist," Lily says, "That doesn't mean anything. A dream exists. A memory exists."

[Alex Carpenter]

"Yeah, but I can actually touch her. Or... Er... Could if that wasn't impolite," he quickly amended.

[Aisha Khan]

"I exist outside of people's thoughts."

[Lily Nicks]

"Every dream thinks their real," Lily says, "That's what makes them interesting."

"But, if it really bothers you, I'll pretend you're real," Lily says, "It doesn't get us anywhere to argue whether or not someone's real or not. It just goes around in circles."

As Lily talks, a pinwheel appears in her hand and slowly begins rotating.

[Alex Carpenter]

"Don't take it personally," Alex whispered to Aisha. "I don't think she's... all there."

[Lily Nicks]

As Alex whispered to Aisha, Lily started rotating counter to the direction of the pinwheel in mid-air.