Gabriel talks to Daniel/Dream

[cattygabriel]

Date: April 14, 2003
Status: Private (Dream, Gabriel)
Setting: The Dreaming
Summary: Gabriel is led by Matthew to the Dreaming, where he talks with the Lord of Dreams.

 

A light frown, a focusing of will, and he was in the Dreaming.

  Gabriel walked up to the gates of the palace at the centre of the Dreaming, taking in the changes Daniel had made. Everything seemed familiar, and yet different in some way. A light breeze stirred his robes and the feathers on his wings, the scenery in the distance seemed almost to ripple slightly, and he remembered how much he had enjoyed working with Morpheus. He paused before the wyvern, griffin and hippogriff. The griffin, too, was new, he noticed, but the other two most likely knew him by now.  

"I am Gabriel, Messenger of God, and I come here at the request of your master." 

  They let him enter, and he followed Matthew to the throne room, bowing before the throne.

  "Good afternoon, Lord Dream." He had asked Gabriel to call him Daniel, but Gabriel wasn't too sure if it applied to slightly more formal situations, or whichever this was.



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[dream-daniel.livejournal.com]

Daniel sat on the throne dressed in finely patterned white robes, concentrating on the broken sections of the dreaming far from his castle. He stood as Gabriel bowed and walekd over to him.

"Thank you for coming, Gabriel. I hope I didn't interrupt anything but I wanted to let you know what was happening here in the dreaming. Lets walk while we talk..."

[cattygabriel]

"No inconvenience caused, Daniel," Gabriel assured him. "I've been worried about the Dreaming as well, and I do have some questions. They can wait, though."

[dream-daniel.livejournal.com]

"The dreaming will survive. But I can tell things are getting more serious in Lower Tadfield. I don't think it will be long before I am forced to take more extreme measures to protect the dreaming. Things will make more sense when we get to the heart of the problem."

The scenery around them seemed hard to focus on properly. In any moment the surroundings were easy to make out but with each step the surroundings seemed to be different somehow. It was impossible to ever catch them changing and although part of you knew they had changed another part knew that things had always been like this.

"Perhaps while we walk you can ask some of your questions."

[cattygabriel]

"Extreme measures?"

Gabriel studied their surroundings - or rather, tried to. Everything seemed to be shifting somehow, though he couldn't catch them changing, and it almost made his eyes ache.

"Are shared dreams possible? And what causes them? What are they like?"

[dream-daniel.livejournal.com]

"I will have to break down the barriers between this dreaming and the other that is causing the problems. I don't know what effect this will have on all those tied into this pocket. At best, nothing. At worst it will kill everybody inside." Daniel didn't look happy about the option but there was a look of resolve on his face that made it clear to anybody that saw him that he would not hesitate to take the action should it become unavoidable.

"The problem comes in getting through the barriers. If a gap develops then I could slip in and deal with the problem. I have been watching and searching though and no such thing exists."


"As for your other question, shared dreams are possible but to happen on their own. They will seem like any other dream except for the fact that two people are real and not dreams. Depending on the situation the shared dream might be dominated by one or other dreamer, their mind shaping the dream around them. Or it might take elements from both participants. They shouldn't really happen but very rarely they do. Or sometimes they are necessary for various reasons. It is a little complicated to go into though."

[cattygabriel]

"Kill everyone?" Gabriel's eyes widened.

He nodded. "What do you think this will culminate in? Perhaps I can keep a watch for you, and warn you if something major happens. And I think I had a shared nightmare with a Norse god I barely know."

[dream-daniel.livejournal.com]

"Killing everyone is the worst that will happen. If the other option is the destruction of the dreaming though then it is a necessary evil unfortunately."

Daniel stopped and the world around them stopped with him. In front of him great bolts of lightning struck out from a void gouging chunks out of the landscape. The sky above looked like it had been stretched down into the void as if being consumed but now motionless.

"This is the problem here. You can't really see but the dreaming is being slowly eroded by this. I can afford that for a short time but no more."

"And shared dreams are plausible. It is possible that the dream bubble is chaotic and that there is not much separation between the dreams. I would be cautious in case it happens again."

"And I don't know what this might culminate in. I still don't fully understand what might have caused it. I am starting to suspect that there is something controlling the effect. Its growth seems to be somewhat unnatural. I would have expected it to have grown and perhaps even burst by now but it hasn't."

[cattygabriel]

Gabriel's lips parted slightly in shock as he stared up at the - he had no idea what to call this. Erosion? Boundary?

"Who could do this to the Dreaming?" Who could pose such problems for Dream himself?

"I'll keep an eye on things, and try to get a message to you if anything abnormal happens," he offered.

[dream-daniel.livejournal.com]

"I had at one time thought it might be a natural phenomenon. Such things occur from time to time and my thoughts were that in my adjustments I had missed something. The way it is progressing seems more like there is somebody or something powerful controlling its expansion. There are no entities that should have the power or skill to do this though..."

Daniel turned away from the rip in the dreaming to face Gabriel. "Do let me know. The alternative is one I would do almost anything to avoid."

[cattygabriel]

Gabriel nodded, biting his bottom lip in thought. "I will. I'll take the same route Matthew brought me by today, then, if I cannot simply get here from the Manor. Is there anything I should be watchful for?"

[dream-daniel.livejournal.com]

"Be watchful for whoever might be responsible or anything that might give me a way in. I cannot tell you any more than that what to watch for though. Good luck," he paused, wondering if it was appropriate and then decided it was, "friend."

[cattygabriel]

There was already a rather strange mix of guests at the Manor, so Gabriel would simply have to be extra watchful.

His eyes widened slightly. The Dream Lord had just called him friend? A small smile played about his lips, despite the situation. Evidently Daniel was less aloof than Morpheus.

"I wish you the same, my friend," Gabriel smiled, bowing his head slightly before leaving.