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[npc-excolo.livejournal.com]

Dream.

There is a great sea. The sky is grey, the water green, and the seafoam is the flecked white of milk on the turn. The shore is stone and shingle, and the cliffs are bone-shades. Will you wake on the little fishing boat that rides the waves, wary of great beasts that lurk beneath the surface, or on the cold and stony shore? Or perhaps as some watery thing yourself, breathing in water as cold as ice and with a salt-iron taste like blood?

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[marbasthefallen.livejournal.com]

This is all well and good, but dreams can be tedious when they are not yours. All symbols and half formed ideas. I turn a deaf ear to fishing as I look up the beach towards the cliffs. I can forget this being human thing and fly up there---

Daddy! My head whips around at the sound of CeeCEe's voice. She is a whiry-gig at the edge of the water, spinning and splashing and laughing. My smile spreads to match hers, and I run down to the water and scoop her up, spinning her about above my head.

"That's one mystery solved!" I laugh, kissing her forehead. "Where is your mother, kitling?" I ask, nuzzling her hair with my face as I walk back from the water. Since this is dxream, I warm up and dry our clothes as we walk.

[celeste-excolo.livejournal.com]

Daddy picks me up and I'm laughing and flying again! Its better than climbing trees.

"Where is your mother, kitling?"

I rub my face against his, I growl a little and hug him and kiss his cheek. "We were taking a nap. Oh! maybe she's playing hide and seek!" I giggle and look around, wiggling to get down. "Where are we? Is this a new garden? Who are they?" I've never been this close to people before! "Daddy, are there monkeys here too?"

[marbasthefallen.livejournal.com]

My kitling purrs and growls and nuzzles me back. CeeCee thinks Lilith may be playing. It's a good bet if she realizes what's going on, she will be playing, but not hide and seek.

"Where are we? Is this a new garden? Who are they? Daddy, are there monkeys here too?"

My little cub obviously wants down, so once we reach dry sand, I do. I laugh and ruffle her hair. "So inquisitive. I am not sure where we are, I think those are people from town, and the only monkey here is you. I think there are sea serpents in the water though, and those silly people are thinking about catching one. As for the garden..." Kneel down so I may whisper to her. "... that is our secret, so you can't tell anyone." I tap her on the nose and smile.

"So what shall we do, go try and find your mother, or watch the people catch sea monsters?"

[celeste-excolo.livejournal.com]

I think those are people from town, and the only monkey here is you. I think there are sea serpents in the water though, and those silly people are thinking about catching one. As for the garden...that is our secret, so you can't tell anyone."

"Okay, Daddy," I say about the Garden with its stupid flowers. It’s not even a good secret. "Sea Serpents?! Can we?!" I only heard about them in stories. Maybe they ate all the monkeys. That would make momma happy, she doesn’t like monkeys. "Hi people from town," I call out, waving at them and twisting so my feet in the sand. It feels neat! Maybe they don’t know about the serpents. If they eat monkeys they probably will eat people too.