Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150912153321/@comment-5583506-20150914003749

As Cat slept she dreamt. As she had grown up she had learnt how to handle the strange dreams her mother threw at her. She had learnt to control them in time so that she wouldn't have to put up with an accidentally summoned monster in her bedroom. Yet this dream was... different... It was clearly not of her own creation... nor her mother's. She could feel it.

She found herself standing in a barren wasteland, scorched and blackened as if it had once been lush and full of plants and natural wildlife, yet now had been burnt to the ground by massive destructive forces. A red sky loomed over her and the very horizon looked as if it had been set ablaze.

Ancient bones from creatures of unknown origin were sticking up from the ground like trees and rocks; giving the whole landscape a surreal and forlorn appearance, full of despair and a sense of abandonment. The wind whined over the cracks and the creeks and made small clouds of dust particles and ashes fly through the air.

Cat turned around. She could feel something stinging in her neck. Someone was looking at her from behind. As she turned about she became aware of a dark figure standing on the other side of a ridge, observing her. It was a dark figure, clad in black robes swaying in the howling wind. It had its arms locked together behind its back. The hood veiled the face in a shadow, but from the darkness it concealed she could feel the stinging gaze of a pair of eyes, full of dread, staring at her.

She didn't know how or why she possessed such knowledge, but she knew for sure that this world was the creation of this... figure... this man, as she assumed he was. She was for once inside a dream willingly created by another user, a feat she knew was impossible... unless... Unless the user was yet another child of Vaermina? A... sibling?

It wasn't an impossibility. Cat held the dark figure under stern observation, watching as its arms reached out for the hood, pulling it back. And all she saw was shadows... and blood...

Cat awoke bathing in sweat. It was unusual for her to get scared by a dream, but it was not the dream itself that had scared her. It was the fact that she had been inside a dream created by another child of Vaermina. An unknown sibling... And the fact that whilst inside the dream, she had felt... utterly helpless... If she hadn't created the dream herself, she held no control over it and could not change it after her own will. Thus the dark figure could have locked her inside there for good, if he had wanted it to happen.

"What's wrong, Cat?" asked Rikki, softly caressing Cat's right breast.

Cat was too upset about the dream to ask the Khajiit nicely to stop. "I... I had a nightmare."

"That doesn't sound so bad?" snickered Rikki and moved over to the other breast when she got no response for touching the first. "Sounds like something you would normally do?"

Cat shook her head and layed back into the bed, turning to Rikki. "I think... I saw into another half-god's dream."

Rikki raised an eyebrow. "So? There are plenty of half-gods here at the inn. It wouldn't be a surprise, would it?"

"You don't understand. This was... a created dream."

"Aren't dreams usually created?" shrugged Rikki and pulled herself closer to Cat.

"They are created by your subconsciousness, you don't really have a say in what the dream is going to look like. That's the difference. Children of Vaermina can create dreams from scratch by sheer will and imagination. The dream I saw was created by will."

Rikki touched Cat's cheek, tenderly stroking it. "So... You are saying that... there is another child of Vaermina? Yes?"

Cat nodded. "I... I think that might be the case. He felt... frightening."

Rikki scooched her way closer, smirking as she felt her chest bumping into Cat's. "You should consider yourself lucky then", she said as she wrapped her hands around the back of Cat's neck, pulling her in close. "That Rikki is here to protect her beloved Cat."

Then the Khajiit kissed her, deeply and passionately. Cat allowed it. She probably knew Rikki better than the Khajiit knew herself. She knew that Rikki loved her, more than as a best friend. It was indeed a strange relationship they had. Cat considered Rikki to be her best friend, while Rikki considered Cat to be her mistress. And Cat would gladly let her believe that was the case, as long as it made Rikki happy. While the truth remained that Cat wasn't the least attracted to other woman, she couldn't be fully sure that she wasn't attracted to Rikki...