57th Draw = AU Special [Accidental Voice]

[selphie_t]

[The dream starts out plain enough. Selphie’s wandering through a large field of wildflowers. The sun is shining and there’s a gentle breeze blowing the sweet smell of flowers and petals toward her. Something about this field of flowers is familiar, yet unfamiliar at the same time thanks to the Malnosso’s tampering. Small plumes of dandelion puffs take flight as she brushes past a bouquet of weeds. Regardless, she takes a few steps forward before the dream changes.

Now she’s standing in a hallway with students in school uniforms milling around her. These uniforms, like the field before her bring out a sense of familiarity as the perky brunette opts for shrugging this off. There’s no way that this is real, she’s thinking. She’s lived in Luceti her entire life, raised by loving parents. Looking down, Selphie’s wearing the same uniform as the rest of the students before she sees the faces of friends that she can’t quite put a name to the face of. She spots Irvine in the hall and stares at him in confusion when he tilts his hat to her. Zell comes next with an enthusiastic wave followed by Quistis, Squall and Rinoa.

Who are these people; she’s wondering as she steps forward again and the scene changes.

Now Selphie is being engulfed in flames as she immediately wakes up. Sitting bolt-upright in bed with a startled cry, she wraps her arms around herself protectively. What was that, she’s wondering before she slips out of bed and gets dressed. The rush of adrenaline the last fragment of her dream gave her means she won’t be getting back to sleep anytime soon. Grabbing her nunchaku, the perky brunette has slipped into her training clothes and heads for the Battle Dome to work through it in quiet. She doesn’t want to worry her family as she slips into her training boots and leaves her home quietly.

Or she’d try to anyway. In the process, she knocks open the journal as she starts talking to herself in a soft tone.]

What a weird dream...

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[Voice]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[Time for fatherly concern, pushing aside the fact that last night was filled with peculiar dreams for him as well.]

A dream? Selphie... are you all right?

[Voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

[Oh shit! Dad you were not supposed to hear this!]

Yeah. I'm alright. You?

[Voice]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[His own dreams have been extremely vague so far, fortunately. But the fact she's had an odd one too is such a strange coincidence...]

I've been well. What sort of dream did you have?

[Voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

[And they're not the only ones. She explains to her father about her dream in the meantime.]

[Voice]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[Vincent listens thoughtfully to that description, trying to make some sense of it.]

A nightmarish scenario... and all of those unfamiliar people... I don't like the feeling to any of it.

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

[Your half-brother also had a weird one, too.]

Weird dream, Selphie?

[Voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

[Well at least it's a small comfort that she's not the only one.]

You too, Kouki?

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

Yeah. [Tall, oddly familiar buildings and many, unfamiliar people.]

Are you okay?

[Voice] - I suffer from html fail today. xD

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll be fine. I don't feel like sleeping though so I was gonna head down to the battle dome.

[Voice]

[heavenslament.livejournal.com]

What happened, Selphie? Do you want to talk about it?

[Voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Just a weird dream, Mama. I'll be okay.

[She doesn't wanna talk about it just yet.]

[Voice]

[heavenslament.livejournal.com]

As long as you're sure....

[Voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

I'm sure. I'm gonna head out for a bit, okay Mama?

voice

[lunarianlegacy.livejournal.com]

Selphie?

[He's worried, alright? Although well... this comes much later in the morning. Ceodore doesn't do mornings and sleeps like a log.]

voice

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Hm? Oh, Ceodore, you sleepyhead. I'm okay.

[Just perplexed. Is this part of the shift?]

voice

[lunarianlegacy.livejournal.com]

[Yeah except he was having strange dreams all night himself about being a child playing in a castle courtyard with Selphie's step-father and a strange woman he'd never seen before in his life. A very nice woman. Then there was the part of him standing alone in a meadow of dead soldiers and the wreckage of something he had been flying on?]

A dream's just a dream.

voice

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

They're just weird sometimes.

voice;

[byakkoyagirl.livejournal.com]

You okay, Selphie?

voice;

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Kinda.

Paprika, you know more about dream stuff than I do, can I ask you a question?

voice;

[byakkoyagirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure! Do you want me to make a filter or anything?

voice;

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Yeah... we better filter this. I don't want a certain somebody finding this.

[voice]

[justicereigns]

You too?

Think it's another shift?

[voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

To be honest... I'm not really sure. I hope it is though.

[voice]

[justicereigns]

[....]

I cannot accept any other alternatives. [Growly and you can practically hear the twitch.]

[voice]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

That it's all just part of the shift? I really, really hope that's all it is.