Welcome to Valerian Night, where the story comes to you in snippets and snatches, snapshots and slivers of 300 words every week. Your input is valued and needed, for what you say may drive the story into a totally different direction. Follow the meandering coils of story that take Alyxa Fairchild onto a direct collision course with Nightmares, Dreams, Old Deities and New Heroes as her world collides with that of Réveille, the land of Waking Dreams and Dead Gods. Trail after Morpheus as he discovers the foibles and confusions of the human world and finds himself strangely enamoured thereof all the while trying to keep his Dreamer safe and ensure the continued peace of the Real World. Let the young Jazzy open your eyes and show you that the world you see is not necessarily the world you know...

Monday, May 17, 2010

XVIII: Ignorance

Morpheus stood at the edge of the living room, staring out into the backyard. Behind him, he heard Alyxa talking with Amy in the kitchen as they went about making ‘cookies’. It sounded interesting, but there was something else that had caught his attention, something neither mortal females could see while they were awake.

-You feel it too, then?- Bast asked him from where she was lounging atop the back of the sofa.

-It is impossible to not feel,- he replied wordlessly.

She flicked a tail and stretched.

-Your Dreamer’s coven is talking about bringing over another,- she murmured.

-They do not understand patience.-

-They are limited creatures, of course they don’t,- Bast said wryly.

They bring too many of us through, the Rift exists for reasons they have obviously forgotten,- Morpheus told her pointedly, -and if they do not rein in their instincts they will bridge the Rift…-

-You act as if I don’t know any of this, kitten,- Bast scolded.

She leapt suddenly and pounced on some invisible prey, a dust mote perhaps.

-Let us hope that Isis and Ishtar at least have the sense to hold back somewhat.-

Bast looked at him as the words floated through the air between them.

-Does Alyxa know that you need her blood to stay here?- she asked him after a moment of silence.

-She does, it is a Dreamer thing.-

-And yet she does not know of the greatest mistake in the history of her kind?-

-She is young still…-

Bast flicked her ears back; young was no excuse to be foolish, or worse, stupid, Morpheus knew that.

-There is a reason why you are the first to come across in eight-hundred years, Dream-King, you should educate your pet before she lets her friends remind the world through their ignorance.-

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