second dream

[rusting]

I slept for a while, it seems. No dreams at all, though.

[Well, if it isn't Sabitsuki. She's walking around the island as she talks, circles under her bright red eyes darker than ever. As she speaks, she trails her steel pipe behind her, wich occasionally gives off a soft bong when it hits a tree root or rock.]

I know I've missed a lot, but the island seems just the same as ever. It never changes... Once in a while, I'd like it to change. I don't like seeing the same things all the time, running into the same trees and the same rocks and the same water...

Sometimes I think it's too peaceful, really. Like that story about people living on a nice island that turns out to be the back of a large sea monster.

[And she pauses, frowning.]

I mean, I don't get it. You're all so happy. But maybe...maybe that's how this place and the people behind it want us to feel. Because one day, when we least expect it, the sea monster will come out and eat us all...and we'll just smile at it like idiots because of how much we've gotten used to living a comfortable life.

...I won't have any of that.
 
[...Sabitsuki, you are weird. 8I]