Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

Linoa leads Katie onto her bed, telekinetically pulling the blankets over her.
"Try sleeping again. Muffy and I will see what's causing these nightmares."

 

"O-Ok." Katie says, shifting around a bit to get comfy before closing her eyes.

It's not long before Katie's soon asleep, drooling onto her pillow.

 

Muffy monitors her dreams as Linoa keeps watch.

 

Katie seems to be dreaming about going on an exploration trip through a cave system with a group of people, the leader of the trip instructing the group Katie's in on the proper safety measures when exploring caves.

Katie heads into the cave system, the leader holding out a torch to light up the walls. As the trip progresses, however, members of the group seem to slowly start to go missing, Katie soon starting the notice and asking the leader about the missing people.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Everyone who started this trip is still with us!" The leader says.

Katie continues exploring the caves, people still going missing until she's the only one left alongside the leader, who guides Katie into a large room.

"Ah, here is the most exquisite part of the cave." The leader saysm before floodlights activate from seemingly nowhere, lighting up the room. A stone table resides in the centre of the room, a group of cloaked and hooded figures around it.

"What the hell?" Katie asks, looking around, confused.

The entrance to the large room slams shut, turning into a wall.

"The sacrifice, of course!" The leader says, pulling off his face to reveal the head of a crocodile. The hoods of the figures around the table fall, they too having the heads of crocodiles. The various people Katie entered the cave system with appear to be jammed onto pikes around the room, some alive and moaning in pain.

"No-NO! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!" Katie screams, slamming her fists where the entrance once was. The crocodile-leader grabs Katie around the neck, dragging her to the head of the table.

"LET ME GO! LET MMM-!" Katie's screams are silenced as the crocodile-leader covers her mouth, holding her up at the head of the table, a knife in his hand.

"Brothers, sisters, we feast!" The crocodile leader says. Katie struggles to escape the grip of the crocodile-leader before her throat is cut, and she falls onto the table, bleeding out.


Katie wakes up with a jolt, tears streaming down her face as she shakes, her breathing fast.

 

"Mrow." Muffy says, sitting on Katie's chest.

"No shadows. You need someone to purge your dreams." Linoa says, laying a hand on Katie's forehead inducing a coma-like sleep.

 

"Hu-?" Katie tries to ask before she falls into the coma-like sleep.

 

Muffy continues monitoring her sleep, checking for any paradoxical dreams.

 

Katie simply has another nightmare, this time depicting a zombie apocalypse. Oddly, though, when she's mauled to death by zombies, she doesn't wake up. Katie instead seems to stay partially alive in the dream as her organs are ripped out and eaten by ravenous zombies.

Katie shifts about in her bed unconsciously, moaning slightly.

 

Muffy eats the dream, replacing it with Katie laying (in one piece) in a meadow.

 

Katie gets up, exploring the meadow of her dream, casually lifting herself off the ground and hovering.

 

The meadow is silent, pleasant scents filling her dream until, eventually, Katie wakes back up in the normal world, a full-looking Muffy sitting on her chest.

 

Katie yawns, rubbing her eyes. The bags under Katie's eyes seem to have cleared up considerably, and Katie pets Muffy idly as she reaches for an aquatic-themed hairbrush, blue hair matted into it.

"I don't know what you did, but that was the best sleep I've had in a week!" Katie says happily, brushing the knots out of her hair; wincing slightly with each brush.

 

"Muffy ate your nightmares. Don't know how else to explain it."
Muffy purrs.

 

"She...ate my nightmares?" Katie asks, confused, looking at Muffy.

 

Muffy sort of nods, rubbing her head against Katie's, messing up her hair a bit.
"Her species is super weird. They feed off thoughts... I just trained her to only feed off nightmares to prevent any stupid repercussions from amnesia." Linoa explains.

 

"So she's sort of like a dream catcher for nightmares?" Katie asks happily.

 

"Yeah, pretty much." Linoa confirms.

 

Katie hugs Muffy, before going back to brushing her hair.

 

Hugging her causes her to conjure a little bit of water before she jumps off the bed.

 

The water seems to slide right off the bed, the duvet probably hydrophobic.

Once Katie finishes brushing her hair, she decides to look out her window, gazing up at the sky through the ocean.