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[accidental video]

[Not long after the assembly...]

[Becca has a PDA with video function now, but she's had that for a little bit. That's not the important thing. She tosses it onto her bed and it turns on accidentally. She sits down with a memory charm, which she puts on eagerly. Almost immediately, her eyes go wide, and she tips over onto the bed, drawing her knees to her chest. She cries out in fear and remembered pain, shuddering horribly as tears fall from her eyes.]

[WARNING: Becca just got back a memory involving a physically abusive childhood. While she won't dump this on just anyone who responds, there is a good chance it might come up at least in passing. PLEASE indicate your limits when responding so I can keep her responses within your comfort zone. I can keep threads completely trigger free if that's what you would like, but please tell me what you need. Please exercise caution when reading comment threads to this entry as there may be triggering content in the individual threads.]

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Yeah. 2-B.

[ A short while later, there's a knock on the dorm door. She pokes her head in. ]

Is it okay for me to come in?

Yeah, I'm here.

[ She enters, and sits on the edge of the bed gingerly. ]

I've got lots of stories, if you want to hear them.

Nothing...with evil stepmothers...

[The thought alone sends a shiver down her spine.]

I'll tell you one about a good queen, then. She's my favorite.

[ Steering away from evil stepmothers: check. Jade doesn't even think she knows any of those. ]

She lives in a giant, bright castle made of gold. And every day, she walks through the city that her castle is in, talking to everybody. Some of her guards think that's silly, and she may get hurt. But she doesn't care; she likes to make people happy. That's what she's good at. That, and protecting the two heroes who are asleep on her planet! The heroes were supposed to wake up one day, and the good queen kept them safe while they were sleeping.

[Becca's hand starts moving absently, as if she's trying to draw the queen in her bedsheets.]

She sounds like a good person...

She is. She's never done anything bad. In fact, she's made sure that no bad people will ever hurt her subjects! Which is why she likes to walk with them, because she wants to make sure that everyone's okay. Sometimes she even climbs the towers to check on the two heroes, because they need to be okay too.

One of the heroes sleepwalks a lot. That's a little girl. Sometimes the nice queen has to catch the little girl and tuck her back into bed! [ She smiles; Becca doesn't know it, but that's a true story about Jade. ] The other one has bad dreams, and writes stuff all over his walls. So the nice queen pets his hair until he has good dreams again.

I wish I lived there....

[Becca isn't really in the mood to do much other than listen to Jade, but it's soothing her soul to have something other than her memories to focus on.]

Maybe you can! It's a dream world. You fall asleep, and wake up there. And nothing bad ever happens.

That sounds so nice. But if it's a dream world, how come the heroes are asleep? What happens when you sleep in a dream?

You have weird dreams. [ She shakes her head. ] When I was asleep, I wandered a lot. I couldn't figure out my dreams, they were always gold-tinted...but it wasn't until I was awake in the real world for a long time before I finally woke up there for good.

John wrote on his walls.

So that was you? You're a hero?

I'm not. But the alpha Jade is.

[ The one that's still alive, but that doesn't seem like a proper topic for a girl who's having bad dreams, so she stays quiet on that part. ]

Dave is, too. There's another world just like the one with the good queen, only it's made of shadows. Prospit -- where the good queen is -- is golden and light, all the time.

That sounds...kind of confusing.

Kind of! But when you start experiencing it, you realize it isn't very confusing at all.

I think that's how life always is. It's easy to understand what you live through.

That's true. And not so easy to understand everyone else's lives.

Yeah... Especially the weirder their lives are compared to yours. That's...why I gave up on finding anyone who understands...

[ Nods. ]

If you ever want to talk...I don't mind listening. Even if I wasn't there.

Did you have a nice family?

I had a nice dog! Grandpa was nice too, when he was on the island, but he died when I was five. So I was raised by my dog.

I wish my mother died when I was five.

[ ... ] She wasn't very nice?

[pained laugh]

To say the least.

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