[Dream Event Post]

[shadow_cosmica]

::You find yourself once again in that strange castle as before, but you find yourself walking, walking down a hall.

And into a grand dining hall, where drums and flutes play, but there are no drums and flutes. And a queen cuts into her fancy meal, all alone. Perhaps it's time you got some answers from her.::

Comments

[keepersouha]

And what kind of curse is it? Or is it just your memories, that are cursed?

[shadow_cosmica]

She cursed my kingdom to fall to ruin.

[keepersouha]

You still seem to be living here fine, though...

[shadow_cosmica]

A land without people, without plants, without life, is not fine, accursed one.

[keepersouha]

But you're living here. You're alive, aren't you?

[shadow_cosmica]

A life alone is not truly alive, it is a half, cursed life.

[keepersouha]

And are you able to leave?

[shadow_cosmica]

::She shakes her head.::

[keepersouha]

That's strange.

Then why am I able to enter, ma'am?

[shadow_cosmica]

I know not why.

[keepersouha]

Has anyone else come, like this...~?

[shadow_cosmica]

Several other travelers...

[keepersouha]

And yet there's no reasoning how they've come? *they shake their head slightly, wandering around aimlessly, around the hall*

A bit odd then, that you can't leave, and there's no life here, and yet people are suddenly coming.

[shadow_cosmica]

... I am grateful at least, that they wish to help.

[keepersouha]

To help you break the curse?

[shadow_cosmica]

Yes... I would like this nightmare to end...

[keepersouha]

Of course. No one likes nightmares.

I just wonder why you were cursed in the first place.

[shadow_cosmica]

Shallow bitter jealousy, because her realm was cold and lonely and dead compared to mine.

[keepersouha]

It seems odd, for jealousy.

Jealousy and bitterness means that she would wish to revel in what she did. Not leave you to your loneliness. Despair, not monotony.

[shadow_cosmica]

A thousand years of monotony is despair.

[keepersouha]

But you don't writhe in it, do you?

You don't scream out in anguish. You don't plead.

So where is their enjoyment, if it's out of jealousy and bitterness?

[shadow_cosmica]

The aching. There are much subtler pains.

[keepersouha]

But it doesn't really fit with the idea of jealousy... mm...

Still, I guess I don't know much about curses, if I don't recognize myself as being cursed, as well~

[shadow_cosmica]

You are cursed... and the witch probably knows you are talking to me now, as well.

[keepersouha]

Really? That sounds exciting.