Dreamscapes or Nightmares

[Elrith]

"I'm so useless almost getting myself drowned before we accomplish anything." A bittersweet smile is shown to Lilly before she bows in apology. The supernatural periwinkle rose in her hand sways languidly, behaving as if the rules of this dream hardly apply to it.

A familiar sound reverberates from above; the jarring noise of a droplet splashing against water. The scene presented in the scrying pool changes. A ripple distorts the moon into an indistinct bleak forest with rows of trees waiting silently.

Rin recognizes the image at once. It is the beginning of the nightmare that brought her to these lands. What was once a figurative threat now literally hangs over their head, waiting to devour her and Lilly.

She did not know when, but some time since she had been gazing into the pool, the proportions of the room had changed. The ceiling once again was close enough to touch.

Involuntarily swallowing her fear, the Anjiran girl reaches out to Lily with her free hand. The other holding on to the mysterious rose that had replaced her katana.

The threshold of the dream is before them, waiting to be crossed.

[Necrosphere]

It had happened as he had crossed into the circle, carrying the dreamer, the link. He had not realised the depth of his error until now. His body was moving, carrying out it's last instructions, patrolling, but the hooks were once again set. And now, within the creation of his own defences, he became powerless.They had invited HIM in, letting HIM beyond the wards, all unknowing. Subtle darkness began to flow into the room, the shadows a shade deeper, the light slightly smothered.
Within the screaming of his own mind, Orion could only hear mocking laughter.