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❀ midgar blossoms
This night for dreamers starts in blackness. Without form or shape, it may seem as though one is everywhere and nowhere at once. There are whispers rising from the dark from many voices, strange voices, more feelings than words. They speak of birth, life, and the inevitable death. They speak of something between death and birth, as well. Some are peaceful, others haunting. A chorus of the voices scream -- and a train whistles.
Flickering lights filter through the darkness, as well as the chatter of people, a conductor tiredly ushering them off and on. There are piles of discarded material around the train station, as though the whole city were half-scrapyard. The air is stifled and dirty, packed with noise. It drowns the whispers out until they are just white noise. And although the openness of the area suggests the outdoors, looking up will reveal no sky to be seen but a wide expanse of metal.
A young woman shifts a basket full of yellow flowers over her elbow as she looks over the people. The green of her eyes settle and with a soft smile, she approaches, her voice carrying ahead of her.
"Excuse me. Would you like to buy a flower? They only cost one gil."
And those who rummage pockets for change may find one. This is a dream, after all.
Flickering lights filter through the darkness, as well as the chatter of people, a conductor tiredly ushering them off and on. There are piles of discarded material around the train station, as though the whole city were half-scrapyard. The air is stifled and dirty, packed with noise. It drowns the whispers out until they are just white noise. And although the openness of the area suggests the outdoors, looking up will reveal no sky to be seen but a wide expanse of metal.
A young woman shifts a basket full of yellow flowers over her elbow as she looks over the people. The green of her eyes settle and with a soft smile, she approaches, her voice carrying ahead of her.
"Excuse me. Would you like to buy a flower? They only cost one gil."
And those who rummage pockets for change may find one. This is a dream, after all.
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Ami can't help a very faint smile. "I've always wanted to travel. Lately, I've finally had that chance." In waking life, and now in dreams.
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Not that it had been very orderly, judging from the condition beneath the Plate. Above was a different matter; it always was.
"But I guess even new cities have histories. I grew up here, so I know some things." She takes a few steps, already thinking of something, and then looks back at Ami. "Do you know how it used to be a group of villages?"
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Ami finds herself smiling. Some things can't be erased; that love of the march of technology and advancement turns out to be one of them for her.
"People are growing," she remarks. "Tell me about the villages."
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"There were eight villages," she continues, going on to answer the question, "and you'd be lucky to find eight people who can tell you all the names without looking at a map. That's why Midgar is divided up into the eight sectors it has today. Numbers ... that's what they are now. It would have been nice if people were interested in their history back then."
It's rather depressing in a way. The city of consumed the history of the villages; its inhabitants consume the history of those who lived before, as the mako used for energy is the lifeblood of the Planet, according to AVALANCHE.
Aerith knows where people go when they die. Rejoining that energy ... the screams and cries she sometimes hears supports AVALANCHE's claims.
"... I'm sorry, I got distracted," she murmurs when she catches her thoughts. How rude -- she can't ignore Ami. "The history of the villages ... oh! I could show you a part of it."
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"Someone has to wake them up," she says. "People on their own won't get far. They forget to be careful of nature as they go."
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"Where are you from? That sounds a little like what AVALANCHE says, but they're against Shinra completely. Anyway, there's something nicer to see. This way -- there's still some buildings standing from the villages." She walks down the street, her steps quick but measured, before looking over her shoulder to make sure Ami follows.
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"It's far away from here," she settles for a vague truth. "It's a place called Earth."
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"It's the same for you here, isn't it?"
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It slips out in a less-guarded moment; even if she doesn't realize this is a dream, she's more relaxed in it.
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"Where will you go?" she asks, probing before assuming the similarity.
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"Let's say... where the wind will take me," she says, for a moment spreading her arms wide before she lowers them again. "I don't know where I'll end up. But I need to see the world."
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They're hardly far at all from their destination now; in a dream, the distance is merely in your head, and the church is never far from Aerith's thoughts. It rises above the scrap, broken but largely intact: large wooden doors, tall stained glass windows, pillars noticeable in its design. A menorah-like object (http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/d/d6/FFVII_Sector_5_Church_outside.jpg) crowns the top. Aerith beams up at it as they approach. "This church has been here for many, many years," she says. "It's a sacred place, so please be careful in it."
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Ami does know how to behave herself on sacred ground. "I wasn't planning to do anything anyway," she says a bit defensively.
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There is also light filtering in from a gaping hole in the roof, and nearby, the floorboards are ripped up near the altar to let a garden grow. It's obvious the growing flowers are the same kind as Aerith sells, and also obvious this church has not been used for the worship it was designed to house for a number of years. It doesn't bother the flower girl, already walking down the center aisle to check on her wares.
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Do you live here?
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Show me it.
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There are more polite ways to ask!
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Please.
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Why do you want to see it? It's not an important part of Midgar.
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I just became curious when you mentioned it.
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Maybe another time. [ she lingers by Ami a moment longer, but then -- ] Excuse me -- [ moves to tend to the garden, placing her basket by the side. ]
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[Aerith seems to be, well, brushing her off, after all; and she's no longer the girl who'll wait through that. Ami turns to go.]
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