Slightly backdated.

[talkyourwayout]

[It's early in the morning when a new post on the BBS goes up.]

Guys, it's Louie. I want to see if anyone else knows anything about this. I mean, the weirdest thing happened last night.

I think I went home. Not just for a night, either. I mean, maybe it was some kind of dream, but it felt so real, and I had a weird dream that was definitely a dream. I think. I don't know! That felt pretty real, too.

Has something like this happened to anyone else?

Comments

[couldabeenturbo]

Mmmmnope. You've probably just lost the last of your sanity.

[talkyourwayout]

[Well. He knows that handwriting, and he has a bone to pick with the person it belongs to.]

Uh-huh.

You need to come up to the Valhudor dorms. Now.

[With the whole house rivalry still going strong, especially among the native students, like heck he's going to Dewey's turf right now.]

[couldabeenturbo]

Um.

[why is he using the angry voice WHY IS HE USING THE ANGRY VOICE]

O ... kay?

[and he'll just .... head over. wondering if he needs to stop making sanity jokes. or if he did something dumb while stuck in Louie's body that he's just finding out about. or ... or ... there's something else he has a feeling he's missing. it'll come to him. eventually. maybe. right? ... no really there's something ... ugggggh, it's right at the edge of his brain]

[talkyourwayout]

[Louie is there waiting, in the common room. He looks ticked off, but not furious, or anything. Still, the moment he sees his brother, he drags him over to a quiet corner of room. Fortunately, most of the other students are off at breakfast.]

Were you going to tell me?

[nomoremistergneissguy]

Only with Sundering research, and it was more a vision than a dream, so...sorry, bud?

[talkyourwayout]

Don't worry about it, Cliff. Although, out of curiosity, what was your vision like?

[nomoremistergneissguy]

Home, mostly. Though I could've done without seeing Katya and Raven locking lips, to be honest. It was better than some things I could've seen, though.

And like I'm not gonna worry? I'm your friend. Sheesh!

[talkyourwayout]

Right, that was when we met! That still sounds like a total nightmare to me. Really weird stuff.

Oh. Thanks, man, and sorry - I didn't mean it like that.

It really was a weird dream. There was this woman and she was really stressed out about this green ball that was breaking, I guess? But then she said it was okay for now, but everything else was getting messed up, and... I don't know, it's dumb, but it kind of freaked me out.

[woo_oo]

I have so many questions I don't even know where to begin!!!

[talkyourwayout]

So I guess this hasn't happened to you, then, Webby?

[woo_oo]

No way, I definitely would have told you if it did!

[daughterofclay]

Why do you think it wasn't a dream?

[talkyourwayout]

Going home? It felt way too real.

Like, okay, I don't know about you, but my dreams don't usually feel like normal life. They don't make sense, and there's never time when nothing's happening, and I can't smell things in my dreams. Stuff like that.

[daughterofclay]

Do you have any evidence? Like, is anything different about you? Or is there something you brought with you?

[shiningkindness]

Oh wow. I don't think I've experienced anything like that before. At least, I'd like to think I'd remember feeling like I went home.

What was it like, though? Going back home after being here?

[talkyourwayout]

You probably would, if it was like this. I really don't think this was just a feeling.

And it was weird, I didn't actually remember being here.

[shiningkindness]

Really? You didn't remember anything at all?

[paradoxical_personality]

[Louie, it's about time. Not that she was casually looking for you in the halls or anything. Cough]

Must have been nice for you... [Or.. I missed you or something. As Hel has time to think it over the incident strikes her as peculiar too, possible important.]

I've never experienced what you're describing. There is an Aesir I know who can manipulate dreams, and a Succubus but if you actually managed to return home... that's a moot point.

- Hel, Queen of the Underworld

[talkyourwayout]

Nice? Not exactly the word I would use. It was crazy, I mean... Not just the going home and the weird dream, but the stuff that happened at home, too.

[paradoxical_personality]

What happened at home?

[You can't just throw that out there then not be expected to explain it]

[puzzlers]

Louie! I'm so glad you're back.
And that sounds super strange.
You weren't really gone for long here...

I wonder if it was another rogue sundering spell that did this,
but I haven't heard of it happening before.

[talkyourwayout]

Thanks, Yugi. And super strange is right... I guess if it was any kind of spell, it would be sundering, since that's what brought us here. Well, the going home part. The weird dream might have been intimation. Almost like I was doing that sort of spell in my sleep? Except I don't even take that class.

[goingbythebook]

[His note back was simple, and almost immediate.]

Is everything okay?

[talkyourwayout]

[He can do this. He needs to do this. He was furious at Dewey for not doing this, and yet... Faced with the reality of telling Huey about their mom being alive; being home again- Internally, he freaks out. It's just too much responsibility on him.]

Yeah. The dream part was pretty freaky, but it was a dream, you know? I'm sure it's not a big deal.

[goingbythebook]

[The delay in reply is a big sign that he's unsure of how to proceed, period.]

Are you sure? I know upsetting dreams can be a pretty big deal, for you and anyone else.

If you need to talk about it, I'm here.

[Can't you just hear Big Brother Huey saying that, Louie?]