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[And now for something completely different. Now that they're all back and settled, Marco has his phoenix half back and he missed it. Maybe a little too much. With the cold weather and snow he's too sleepy to be bothered running around like an anarchist. Nope, instead, there's a fiery blue phoenix curled up around a family of baby chocobo. And then the phoenix is just Marco, still covered in fiery blue sparkly flames and fiddling with the communicator seeing that it's already on.]

Mah... annoying thing. Well whatever, these little guys had their Mom eaten so uh... [Gee, how does a tough pirate guy explain that he's adopting a bunch of baby birds?] I'm keeping them warm until the snow's over, eh? Fuck it's cold. If anyone needs me, I'm out here. [And screw it, he's just switching back into phoenix to cuddle some birdies and make a haphazard nest in the straw.]

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i could get you one

That would be a big help, thank you Eridan.

Careful, it's cold out.

i knoww ill be careful
wwhere are you?

The barn.

ill be there as quickly as i can get there

[At least fifteen or twenty minutes pass before he finally shows up at the barn.]

im here wwhere are you?

[Chirps and waves a ridiculously huge wing, switching into partial hybrid mode with wings for arms.]

Over here, eh.

Oh, hey Marco.

[Eridan loosens his scarf, and reaches into the bag he's carrying, pulling out a couple of blankets.]

Wwe havve a horde of them, so don't wworry about a epidemic of blanket shortages or anythin on our behalf. And they're clean. Wwell, as clean as anythin gets around here.

Whoa, thanks mate! [He's pretty impressed and switches one arm back to human to take them and bundle up the babies ;;]

You guys aren't going to be cold yourselves or anything, are you?

Marco. Wwhen I say wwe havve a horde of blankets. I mean wwe havve a horde of blankets. Wwe havve them in piles around the hivve and some in the closet. It's for wwhen wwe havve to go outside in the sun and for our recuperacoons.

Hah, understood. Thanks, eh.

So how have things been since you all got back?

I... I'vve been havvin nightmares about it.

[Eridan fidgets nervously, both hands tracing the fins on his face in a sort of calming and reassuring manner. He looks really hurt.]

Like wwhat I see seems so real but it's all a blur and haze wwhen I dream or think of it.

[Tugs Eridan for a one-winged hug too. Even manly pirates need hugs so trolls get one too.]

Probably because it basically was a dream, eh.

But that's the thing, I don't think it's just a dream. I havve experienced, havvin experiences through dreams. Back in the game, wwe could see another wworld in our dreams. Some of us saww Derse, others saww Prospit. And I knoww from experience wwhat is a truly a dream and wwhat is nothin more than an unconscious experience.

[He glances down at the ground from the hug, tenderly touching one fin.]

In other wwords, wwhat I'm seein... I think it happened for real. But... I can't see wwho did it.

So what do you think it was?

Hm? What do you mean who?

[Because Marco doesn't intend to get Rika in more trouble when she's already having a rough time.]

Someone ripped my fins out, and broke my leg... and then my heart feels like it's stoppin and I wwake up breathin deeply.

It all feels vvery real, I wwonder if this is wwhat Kar meant wwhen he said Prospit dreamers perished.

[Eyes widen. Wow. Gruesome. And this would be a phoenix checking for troll!blood and dismemberment.]

You're in one piece now though. What's a Prospit dreamer? I'm all ears.

Yeah but in my dreams I am bleedin to death....

A Prospit dreamer is someone wwhos dreamself is a resident of Prospit. When they sleep, they dream and interact wwith this place as if it wwere real life.
I was a Derse dreamer, wwhich is basically the same thing except instead of Prospit, my dreamself inhabited Derse. It's all part of the game, and their conflictin wwar sides and stuff.

So long as you're not while you're awake?

I see. Was this when you had to fight the angels?

Yeah. It's just I'vve seen fins ripped off that wway in front of my eyes, so I knoww it's not just some fantasy blood cullin dream or anythin. Though wwhy I wwould cull myself is beyond me.

No. I fought angels awake. Derse is basically like... a dream that you keep returnin to.

I see. So what happens now? Are you worried the nightmares that are sort of like Derse will continue?

Yes... they're more like nightmares though. But, it's been reoccurrin since wwe got back here....

This place does seem to have a knack for making people relive nightmares, eh.

Maybe try falling asleep in a room with a friend? That's what helped me. [Of course since his nightmares are all about Ace and his father dying, having Ace around would sort of make it better.]

That's a good soundin idea but I can't.... I sleep by myself awway from evveryone else.

Want to hang out with me for the night then? See if it helps.

I'll be okay...

[Gosh look at him blush Marco. >:T ]

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