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[It had been a few months since he'd last been seen, and with good reason. He'd listened to Riku--he's only been eating the things from the vending machine. But he's realized a distinct problem with that. While they taste good, for sure, they provide nothing for a Nightmare. They're all designed with Spirits in mind, and thus they're made out of bad dreams. Which is, essentially, junk food for a Nightmare. So someone has been starving for a few months, but fear of retaliation has kept him hiding--especially as he's weakened. So he's left with one choice, really: hunt down someone willing to have a bad dream so that he can eat. If he spreads it among a few people, he can get away with it, he thinks. Even Riku can't object to that.

Right now? He's sneaking along the hallways, trying to avoid the Spirits. He's pretty much a prime meal right now.]

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[Well, there are two ladies in the pool room right now, and they appear to be snoozing on their pool chairs for all the world to see. Worth a shot, right?]

[...Riku. She's sleeping. He could wake her--berate her about all this and how it's her fault for setting the rules the way she did. But instead, he'll examine them both, leaning over Riku, then Lea.

One of them has to be having sweet dreams.]

[Both of them are dreaming. Riku about the dressing room, and about spells. It's not exactly fun, it's more on the weird side, but it isn't a nightmare. Lea dreams about climbing mountains, and when she was younger, before all that business with losing her heart.

If either of them had woken up to find him leaning over them he might have gotten slapped, given that they're both in swimsuits, with only t-shirts to cover them.]

[He has a choice. Hm. Lea's is definitely more pleasant, but... Hey. He could also talk to Riku in her dreams, right?

...Fine.

He's going to turn into a strange black and red substance and leak into her dreams and once there? Try to seek her out. She set the rules, and he'd rather talk to her before getting in trouble. That'll get him points, right?]

[Oh, sure. Points. Have fun being caught in the middle of a DR spell, dude. Riku's currently in the body of a cat, racing to stop someone else from being caught by the same spell.]

[At least he'll be able to tell you it's a dream?]

Riku.

[He's not gonna try to grab her scruff yet.]

[Have fun. She is small and white and fluffy and irritable as all hell. She hisses at him and keeps going. Because she's running on the focus that this is real and happening, she doesn't want to deal with him on top of everything else.]

You're dreaming, Riku.

[He's calling after her before giving chase. He can at least still keep up.]

[As if. She doesn't think anything of what he says, and she doesn't slow down. Where is she going?]

[Dammit, if he were stronger, he'd prove it. Instead, he's gonna try to grab her by the scruff of her neck.]

Riku, I'm not lying! It's a dream!

[She YOWLS and flails her little cat arms and tries to scratch him. He's going to have to do something else to convince her.]

[Good thing he wears a leather coat with gloves, huh?]

Sorry about this.

[He'll take a deep breath and then begin to draw in on her dream--only a small piece of it, to make a point. He's not pushing his luck.]

[She freezes when he does that, just hanging in the air, and then the dream is probably unbalanced. She's waking up a little, as people do when they realize they're dreaming.]

[He'll put her down quickly before he's forced out and back to the real world. So he'll be standing not too far away when she comes to.]

[She wakes up with a jolt, nearly flailing right off of the chair. She's dazed and a little disoriented, and it takes a few seconds for her to remember what she was doing beforehand. Then- She notices him, and realizes that was real.]

What the hell are you doing?

I was trying to talk to you.

[He'll even hold his hands up before slowly removing his hood. He's pasty white, Riku, and doesn't look very healthy.]

[She looks... startled. Not necessarily concerned, but startled. Lea is blissfully unaware of what's going on, still asleep.]

What happened to you?

Those things you had me eat? Are made from bad dreams. It's like feeding a cat nothing but lettuce.

...what? This whole time?

[It feels like it's been ages since that happened. If he's been essentially starving, why hasn't he done something drastic? He's a villain, right? Or how is he not dead. Jeez.]

By the time I realize I was starving, I couldn't even fight a Meow Wow.

[He's going to lean against the wall now.]

I'm alive because even if they're bad dreams, they offer just enough to live. Still doesn't change the fact I'm in trouble.

[You act like he's malicious on purpose, Riku.]

[Well c'mon, look at their past together. The shock changes to confusion, and then suspicion.]

What do you plan to do?

[She's not keeping her voice down, so Lea is beginning to stir as well.]

Why do you think I tried to talk to you instead of just eating the dreams of your friend over there? Though I was tempted.

[He's not about to break your rules when he's easy prey for the weakest of Spirits.]

I'm not about to be eaten by you just because I broke your little rules.

[Riku scowls at him and quickly steps up to put herself between him and Lea, even if he's not in any shape to fight. She seems to understand that, since her stance isn't aggressive, but she's still protective of her friends.]

Then what is it you want to talk about?

...

[He takes a deep breath before just... Sinking to the ground.]

...What am I supposed to do?

[She just stares at him for the longest time, expression eerie, neutral. Flat. She could tell him to do a million things, like to go die, because he hurt her best friend or some version of her in his world, and she still hasn't forgiven him for that. But she doesn't.]

How should I know?

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