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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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"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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it's better that she goes. that demanding attitude discomforts a girl who's heard demands too often.
but ... Aerith frowns down at her garden. Ami couldn't be a bad person, right? ... she seemed to love flowers so much ...
she wakes up in her bed with a deep feeling of sadness that wrenches in further when she realizes it was only a dream. there had never been any danger at all in showing that girl her house, because it wasn't real. but if it had been, she would have balked just as she had then.
if I was normal, I could trust people more. ]
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Oh. And there are no flowers; it honestly takes her a moment to realize that, the dream had felt so real. She only fully comprehends when she looks at where she's sure she left some before the dream, but there's only empty space.]