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[doeswhathewants]

[Serrure's looking a little worse for wear around the edges, an energy drink in one hand, eyes trying to slide closed closed, dark smudges under them. He hasn't slept in a few days and it is beginning to take a toll.]

I would like to hire someone- preferably with experience and a list of well-satisfied clients in the City that I can contact for references- who has extensive experience in the area of dreams, to ah, well- fix the nightmares I am plagued with.

The problem is, potential employees, that these are no mere abstractions of disjointed bits of fantasy, nor prophetic visions of the future. They are [A frustrated noise.] past occurrences. Terrible things that are over and done with that play out nightly in my mind.

I am so tired.

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[hatedbyfanboys]

... Hn. I could use that as well...

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[doeswhathewants]

Nightmares?

[hatedbyfanboys]

Yeah.

[flensing]

I do not know if nightmares can be fixed. [Not in her world anyway.] I hope there is someone to help you.

[doeswhathewants]

From experience?

[flensing]

[She hesitates.]

...I have many nightmares, yes.

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[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

[Hey, look! Mindy is for once not trolling. She's concerned. That's right. Concerned. Don't get used to it.]

I think there's a magic shop. Maybe they have something?

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[doeswhathewants]

That kind of magic? Or just... tricks and things?

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[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

I dunno. Knowing this place, it's worth a look, right?

[eiremagic]

There's shite to do about it.

[doeswhathewants]

How can you be so sure?

[eiremagic]

Because I have a fucking brain.

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[threeolives]

[ Go go gadget maternal instincts. ]

Oh, Serrure. You can't let nightmares torture you like this. Sleep deprivation can do awful things to you. [ This she knows from first hand observation. ]

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[doeswhathewants]

So I have experienced. Especially lately. But... they are so vivid and terrible. [He kind of likes your maternal instincts. Just saying.]

[threeolives]

Oh sweetheart. If you ever want to talk about them, you can always come to me. I know we're not very close just yet, but I've got a certain amount of experience in [ caring for sleep-avoidant PTSD sufferers? ] this kind of thing.

[ She can... make soup, or something. That's motherly, right? ]

[tangledintower]

[Rapunzel is a very concerned friend/roommate.]

You've been having nightmares?

[They sound more like bad, suppressed memories. Either one is bad though. She is worried now.]

If there isn't anybody here who can fix dreams...well, you could always talk about it with somebody. Maybe getting them out will make them go away.

[doeswhathewants]

Yes. I did not wish to say anything, but they've gotten so bad.

[They are memories, of his past life.]

How would talking about them make them go away?

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[charring]

Try keeping a journal. It's what I do. It helps a bit.

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[doeswhathewants]

Keeping a journal is ...kind of girly.

[bythreadalone]

Everything okay there, Future King of Thieves?

[doeswhathewants]

Is having vivid nightmares of things that have already happened but you have not witnessed personally some kind of super power? Or a mutation? That would be the lamest one ever.

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[asofwar]

[LOOK AT THIS, concern! Holy shit.] Were you older, I would tell you that they are things to get used to -

But one your age should not have to.

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[doeswhathewants]

[Snuggle him to your tender, armored bosom, Sif.] I do not even understand why they trouble me. I have had nothing to do with the events my mind is recreating.

You have nightmares, Sif?

[debrief]

I don't think nightmares are something that can be fixed easily.

[ A beat. And then, a bit softer, because for all that he enjoys the battle of wits he and Serrure have going on at times, he's a kid. ] Do you want to talk about them?

[doeswhathewants]

Many other things can be fixed easily, why not this?

[And he does look like a kid at this moment.] They are terrible things, each crimes bad enough to get the one who perpetrated sent to the gallows ten times over. People dying, buildings collapsing, twisted horrible monsters that used to be men... these things all happened in my world. But, I was not witness to them. And the one who did them is very much dead.