[Five Hammers]

[a_smile]

[guess who's got another one of those odd dream-being questions? in text form once again, though given the fact that it's a dream question it shouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to guess who it is.]

Dreams or reality. Which is better?

Comments

[2000_skills]

Reality.
Dreams are much shorter.

[a_smile]

One.

So you'd stay here then there?

[2000_skills]

Well, it's not like you can choose whether you dream or not when you need to sleep...

[a_smile]

Maybe. You can, if you try.

[although that was slightly unfair of him to say since Smile was a dream.]

[2000_skills]

Not even that is a skill I have.

[a_smile]

Not everyone does. But you can decide not to stay dreaming, I think.

[2000_skills]

Would be a bit hard.

[a_smile]

Some want to stay asleep. [he thinks it's a little silly.]

[2000_skills]

I don't think a lot of people like being dead.

[a_smile]

Not dead. Just asleep in their dreams.

[2000_skills]

...Wait what?

[text]

[chainsomnia]

[...Smile are you seriously asking questions like this again.]

Isn't it obvious?

[text]

[a_smile]

[he may or may not be trolling.]

Zero.

No. Which is it?

[text]

[chainsomnia]

Zero?

[...]

Dreams, usually

[text]

[a_smile]

Counting. It's now one and one.

Usually?

[text]

[chainsomnia]

There are good dreams.

But sometimes there are bad ones too.

[text]

[a_smile]

A little of both then? Half a good dream and half a bad dream and you're fine?

[text]

[chainsomnia]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[text]

[a_smile]

[hun.]

And you don't mind nightmares?

[text]

[chainsomnia]

[........]

Depends on what the nightmare is.

[text]

[a_smile]

[well then....]

One like this: :) <----

Could you handle that?

[text]

[chainsomnia]

[Ah...]

I think I could handle it

[text]

[a_smile]

Good :D

Nice of you to answer.

[text]

[chainsomnia]

Just asking things out of curiosity again?

[Or was there an actual reason for it...]

[text]

[a_smile]

Curiosity. That's all. I wondered which was better.

[text]

[chainsomnia]

Oh, I see

[There's no point in asking which one you like better, is there...]

[text]

[a_smile]

[there is a point, but you'd actually have to ask. and, you know, put up with Smile's dream-logic as well.]

It's one person for reality and one for dreams. I wonder if there's more than one answer.

[text]

[chainsomnia]

There probably is.

[Though she has at least some idea of what Mado and Sabi's answers might be.]

[a_smile]

[he suddenly drops the texting.]

I wonder what it is. Most people I know say one or the other. What's the 'in between'?

[chainsomnia]

[Oh...after a moment she drops the texting to reply too.]

Maybe people who don't mind both...or don't care for either...

[a_smile]

Between sleeping and living. I wonder if that's the best for her.

[chainsomnia]

...I don't know. That's...for her to decide, I guess.

[a_smile]

I guess. Rather not see her rust away in the end of things. But that's her choice.

[chainsomnia]

Rust away? [That's an interesting way of phrasing something...]

...Mm. I don't think I would want to see that happen to her either.

[a_smile]

Yes. Rust away.

No, I don't either. [because he saw it once and it wasn't fun. a figment wasn't real, but the memeories of the more 'whole' ones were very much alive.]

[chainsomnia]

...I'm sure... [A slight pause--she's probably the most cheerful of the dreamer girls, but she never really dipped into "optimism" or "comforting" very much at all, at least until she arrived here, so she sounds a bit awkward.]

I'm sure she'll be okay, somehow...

[a_smile]

[awkward or not, it seems to have worked. Smile sounds a little better.]

Should be fine. She's a little stronger this time, I think.

[chainsomnia]

[This time? She doesn't ask what that means, but Urotsuki somehow finds herself smiling a little--even though she doesn't know Sabitsuki as well as Madotsuki, she still likes her. She's strong...and we would try to help her if she ever wanted or needed it.]