What dreams may come [Open, bendytimed to before GTFO plot]

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In her sealed, silent, sensory-deprived meditation room, Roxie is sleeping. It's a special sleep: for all dreams are connected, she knows, and by spinning her mind out along the web of thought, she might step into others...

[Roxie is dream-hopping, getting a look at the subconsciousnesses of the other people on the ship. So, how it works - if you're interested, go ahead and post with a dream your character is having, and Roxie will slip into it, subtle at first but more obvious as she tries to satisfy her curiosity. Just her being around will make the dreamer more lucid and more likely to remember the whole thing when they wake up.

Also, feel free to ask any OOC questions in a thread here, or poke me on AIM at 'anagramarye'.]

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"You must learn to see through to the core of a person, perhaps?" Halina suggested. "We are no longer in t h e place from whence you came. Do the same rules apply in all Universes? Do all those you must kill wear the face of a would be friend?"

Arha wondered that herself.

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"... I'd like it if not," Roxie says quietly, and then she is silent for a long moment.

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"Perhaps this place is different," Halina said thoughtfully. "Such is a possibility, as there is all manner of possibilities available."

"What to the things you kill truly look like?" Arha interjected curiously.

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"They don't really have faces of their own," Roxie says, shaking her head. "Everything the cho have ever been is stolen from others."

But there's a little twist in her face. "The oldest ones I've encountered... they never look alike, but wings and hooves and fire are common themes. And spiders."

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"Such a terrible thing to be borrowed and transient," Arha said quietly. "It does not sound as if they would be a good thing if they steal from all like that. Why must you kill them?"

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Roxie frowns, just a little bit. But for her, well, that's quite a lot. "Because they want to take everything."

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"That makes sense," she said after a moment of contemplation. "No one would take everything away from everyone else. I can see where the problem lies. How do you recognize these cho? Can anyone?"

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"I can sense them," Roxie says, and there's just a little bit of helplessness in her tone. "It's part of the magic of my empowerment. They have some detectable biochemical elements, but most of the time a hiding cho is impossible for other people to find."

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"It is a hard burden," Arha murmured. "But you do what must be done and you do it as you should. If I could aid you, I would and thus, perhaps, the burden light be lessened."

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"I haven't been able to duplicate it yet," Roxie says, shaking her head a little. "Being able to sense them. But... if you ever see anybody with white eyes—like cataracts—and they don't seem to be slowed down by it, stay away from them. That's one of the signs."

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"I shall keep that in mind," Arha murmured. "Truth be that they do not sound like pleasant things. I will watch for such, your words are noted and shall be made mindful."