trans_9 | Deep Dreamer

Though she'd been told to stay in medbay, in case she really did fall asleep somewhere no one would find her, Miku had stumbled and shuffled her way to the observation deck. It wasn't like she was alone, after all, Amane's faded spirit was with her, begging Miku to find her brother and help him.

Miku wasn't sure if she meant Amane's brother, or her own, though, and continued to sway back and forth before one of the large windows. Her lips moved, but her voice was softened to the point of almost silence.

"Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
If you cry, the boat you'll ride
The last trip to the other side
Once you get there
sacred marks you'll bear
They shall be peeled off
Should you fail to lie still."

But that was the problem, wasn't it? The priestess wasn't lying in peace, and instead dragged her deeper and deeper into the manor of sleep. Beneath her skin, the tattoo bruise twisted and burned. Miku sucked in a shuddering breath and pressed her hand against the wall for support. In order to not worry anyone more than she had, she needed to suffer in silence. Which meant being quiet during her rarer and rarer waking hours.

"Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
If the priestess wakes from her dream
Perform the Rite of Stakes
Her limbs pinned tight
Lest the doors open wide
And suffering unleashed on all..."

Miku continued to sway back and forth and murmur the lullaby, senselessly.

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Miku felt her skin flash-freeze. "A..." Was the curse hurting her ability to sense the dead? Miku looked surreptitiously behind her for any sign, but was rewarded with nothing.

The Engraver, however, looked at Nanoha with empty, bloodied sockets, and faded away. "You... you... ah... you wait for the capture circle to light up, and take their picture when it's fully red." Miku couldn't stop the tremor that raced down her back. She turned around. "One more." Really, the only person who had to worry was Miku. Well...

Miku and Nanoha now, she supposed.

Tess looks back and forth between Miku and Nanoha. Ah—wah? D: She tenses up in place, but doesn't move away from Miku... the sensors of her suit aren't picking up on anything out of the ordinary. She looks over at Nanoha again, her hands wrapping together at the worry from the situation.

Nanoha raised the camera again... but nothing happened. "I... I think it went away. Nothing's happening with the circle. I'm sorry," she said with a sigh. "If I'd known I'd have waited to take it."

Miku shook her head, "Don't attract it to you, Nanoha-san." Sometimes, Miku thought that the camera was something like waving a red flag at a bull.

That was, if the bull was afraid of being exorcised by a red flag. She heard the second picture snap and hurriedly stuffed herself back into her plantsuit. "If it's gone, it'll stay away. Sometimes they just... do that."

She also shook her head, giving the other girl a smile. "It's fine, don't worry about me! I'm surrounded by people who know magic in and out, so a little ghost won't be even a nuisance."

Nanoha handed the camera back to the other girl, wondering where they could get the photos developed here.

With careful fingers, used to doing this delicate work, Miku removed the film and handed it to Nanoha. "I haven't seen a place where it can be developed yet," she said, as though she were reading minds, "But.... maybe if you brought it to the sensoriums? Or... or asked that... Stacy-person?" Maybe she would know. "It would probably be best if you had someone who knows how to develop old film, too. I would volunteer, but, I have a bad feeling I'll be falling asleep soon."

Speaking of which, she needed to talk to Steve, too. Before she fell asleep again. "Is there... anything else you wanted to know?"

Nanoha took the film from Miku very gently, careful to not mess it up... though she was deep in thought. If one ghost were here, then maybe there were others, too - including the one that had given her the curse in the first place. "Is it possible to talk with the ghosts? How do you usually interact with them - is it in dreams?"

If it was in dreams, then maybe Roxie or one of the other astral walkers would be able to speak with them.

Miku smiled a bit sadly, "No, though I really wish it were. Then I could wake up." But that wasn't working for her too brilliantly now, was it?

"I've just... always seen them. It's better if you don't talk to them, at least, that's what my mother always told me. Eventually, they just want you to feel their pain, anyway. A lot of my information comes from the objects and things I touch, so... I see that way." Miku explained and breathed a little relieved sigh when the suit finally finished sealing up. "Ghosts... tend to repeat things..."

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