Crossposting Broken: Side Quest and A Dream Story

[aldersprig]

Twenty: The Kitten

The gardener in front of them cut a strange figure, her pockets wriggling.

Raizel bowed politely anyway. If she had learned anything so far on this trip it was that she might find the god-touch or even stranger things in places she was expecting nothing of the sort. “I, uh. I offer apology? We were hiding from,” she dropped her voice lower. “We were hiding from a deserter who wanted to accost us, and this was the first open gate. I didn’t mean to trespass.” She might have said We didn’t mean to trespass, but she was fairly sure the Diamond Raven had meant exactly that.

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Dream: The King’s Castle

Story based on a dream I had
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The King was raving.

Not that anyone would ever say that; he was the king. You didn’t mention he was raving — or hallucinating, or having fits — if you wanted to hold on to your head, your soul, and your volition.

But the King had gotten it in his head that one of his trusted advisers and lieutenants had betrayed him, and was going around the castle, using The Voice that filled every corner of that huge edifice, declaring that when he found that Lieutenant who’d betrayed him, he would kill them, rend them, destroy them.

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Comments

[kelkyag]

<pats the tiny tabby fluffball>

I almost want to place The King's Castle in (pre-Empire?) Things Unspoken, but maybe the genres don't quite mesh. Hard to say yet, anyway.

[aldersprig]

I don’t know, either. The brain made the setting, and I just tried to transcribe it as close to accurately as I could.

[kelkyag]

<nod> And dream logic gets really weird sometimes.

[aldersprig]

It does! Writing things from dreams is ~tricky.~ This one seemed coherent enough to try, at least.

[kelkyag]

The observer/narrator sort of explaining from an outsider point of view helped!

Just finding an interesting element or three to swipe from a dream is doing pretty well. Transcribing one into sense is hard. :)

[aldersprig]

I might even have more of this! I ~sort of ~ know what comes next.

It was a super vivid dream.

[kelkyag]

Re: Crossposting Broken and The Kitten:
-- Psst also escaped cross-posting, and is also numbered Twenty.
-- While sidequest is on the Alder's Grove site, it seems to have its own wordpress setup, and there's no obvious-to-me way to find it from the main menu.