[1] Asleep or dead.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[Long silence. Cloud stands and stares around him, everything about him screaming misplacement.]

This...............I remember here. Buganhagen and his machine. But...
I wasn't there. I was looking for a store.

[He looks behind him.]

So this is where she came from. It's not...so bad. Quiet. I wonder how stars made her? Calamities. Always calamities...

I'm dreaming. But this. This isn't a dream I mind...It's only me. But what about 'The Machine'?
Peaceful. I could stay here for a thousand years. With no memory. But...home?

[Cloud stands in the stars silently, gazing at them, content.]
 

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[lamb_of_gold]

And another comes to join us, it seems.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[Cloud looks at him out of the corner of his eye, then a slight nod

How...many of 'us' is there?

[lamb_of_gold]

*returning the nod*

I've yet to count exactly, but I'd hazard a guess of a little over a dozen, not including the woman and twins.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

...Okay. Thanks. I'm Cloud Strife.

[lamb_of_gold]

I am Mu. A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Strife.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you...
Just call me Cloud.

[lamb_of_gold]

Cloud then. *small smile*

I've found that it is possible to return home from here, though according to the woman "We may never leave."

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

...How? How do we get home?

[lamb_of_gold]

It seems to be a matter of simply willing it...


Oh good, I didn't di- *poofdissapears*

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*poofreappears*

...*sigh* That's getting rather annoying.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

Willing it...? Okay.

[Cloud is gone. And then, hello again.]
...Oh. But...if we're in an experiment, why are. Why do we still have home?

[lamb_of_gold]

Unfortunately, I do not know the answer. Though I spoke with the woman, she evaded my questions and spoke with such vague statements, it was very hard to make sense of them.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

...Yeah. She's one of those types. Heh.
I'm going to find out...[and Cloud wanders off like his namesake. he does that.]

[lamb_of_gold]

*Mu's voice, though coming from his mouth seems to echo in Cloud's head as he turns away* I wish you luck, friend.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[oh man is Cloud disturbed]
What-?
[he turns back and looks at her for a moment, before shaking his head and continuing on.]

[lamb_of_gold]

[Mu has no boobies DX]

*Slightly bashful look. Didn't mean to do that*

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Boo~!

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[slight smile]

......hey.

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Oh~ Not afraid of ghosts, are you? That's refreshing~. [ Yuyuko floats around him. ] Calamities, hmm? What kind of calamities?

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

There's worst things than ghosts...

Jenova. She was a calamity from out here...space, I mean. She's...it's hard to. Imagine, how she came from something beautiful.

[Cloud seems a little amused by her floating around him.] But I'm Cloud. Who are you?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

There is much unfounded fear for us, though~.

Jenova? She was like a demon? Or an ogre? Perhaps both?

Saigyouji Yuyuko. It's a pleasure to meet you, Cloud~.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

I guess.

She was. She was destruction. She...it's complicated. [body language says he doesn't want to talk about this anymore]

Nice to meet you...uh. What do you want me to call you? Just Yuyuko or...?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I see~. [ She taps a closed fan to her lips. ]

Yuyuko is fine. Humans need not call me their princess while living~.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[Cloud looks at her quizzically while she thinks. Small smile when she decides.]

Mm. Yuyuko, then. You're a princess?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Princess of Hakugyokurou, yes. [ A pause as she remembers how many people haven't known what that was. ] The land of the dead, that is~.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

The Promised Land...? Oh. Nevermind. Guess not all worlds have our...land of souls.
[slight smile.]
Mmm. Do you want me to call you Princess Yuyuko, then?

[bloodyroadking.livejournal.com]

Newsflash, this isn't a dream. Doesn't that sound spooky to say?

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

But people say that in dreams...