06-17-2025, 04:06 AM
Fragrant Dream
that was interesting! so... did he let his Follower go, and they lost their memories under the ocean, hiding in the darkness with Blue and then eventually Red?
okay, a bit of goofing around in Audacity and I grabbed our "favorite song" from Rafayel's conch/whistle/flute that he was playing. i was able to get most (but not quite all!) of the ocean effects out of it.
- okay, this already making me flashback to the smack in the face that was Your Fragrance. Rafayel, are you sure you want to send me perfume - ANY perfume? "Enchanted Sea at Night" sounds quite lovely though.
- i am remembering "that morning" when an intoxicating scent permeated the air. i... don't even want to guess about Lemurian physiology and pheromone production at the moment. but apparently it was THIS exact perfume and "they" "threw away the sample"? apparently the memory of it is enough to make me flush though. what WERE we doing that morning, exactly?
- the bottle has mermaid art. mmkay.
- i guess we're dreaming! the sound of the ocean waves....
- i am Lemurian? or... ? "Your Magnificence!" and a red fish is perched on my nose. am I the Bride in this dream?
- no, apparently the fish are Red and Blue and I am the Witch of the Deep Sea and we have "another" visitor.
- hiiii Rafayel! yes, i am the Witch of the Abyssal Rift, apparently. what would you like, handsome young... soon to be a Sea God? well, he's apparently already got a radiant glow. he really is that pretty, honestly.
- oh, he wants a potion to turn human, 'to fulfill a single wish'.
- Red: "Once you betray the sea, you'll be hit with a dreadful curse!" well, Ariel lost her voice. Rafayel won't? we know he keeps his ability to sing, even.
- there's a heavy price for this potion. (isn't there always?)
- a whole bunch of troublesome ingredients needed AND 1) a gem that forever shines like the moon 2) a stream that never wanes with time and 3) a voice that sways like the tide
- Red and Blue remind me of slightly dumber versions of Kieran and Luke. they apparently weren't supposed to say the three secret ingredients out loud.
- well, he's back after a month and look a little worn. bad collection trip, i take it?
- scale: from his neck, enchanted to shine forever.
stream: "I possess a life that is everlasting, so my blood will forever flow, just like the unending sea." nice. okay. so Rafayel is the last God of the Sea because he will never need a successor.
voice: captured in the conch, a melody from the eastern sea
- muahaha! and down he goes, like a big tree of the sea. after yanking out a scale and bleeding all over the place, i guess i would have done the same thing.
- aaand i save his immortal life with several very expensive potions, it seems. i hope this guy pays well, he's depleting my stock faster than i can make it.
- my scary and evil Witch self is swallowed up by envy as Rafayel talks about his beloved. as she (i?) should be.
- oh, that was a lovely tune.
- which he apparently used to play for me.. uh her.. uh, his beloved under her window to serenade her to sleep
- this is... what is going on. "Once you're human, you can play it again for her." I've noticed he tends to stare at me for no reason in particular. "I can play it for her right now."
- oh. oh hang on. earlier in this dream, Red or Blue accused me of forgetting things because I keep sampling my own potions or something. Am I both Witch and the beloved? do i lose my memories in EVERY time line? asking for a friend.
- oh, not good. the potion will indeed make Rafayel human.. entirely human. blood, song and immortality - gone.
- "You don't want me to die?" For a split second... an answer surges from the depths of my heart. and then i wave it off with "whatever".
- i make a boat of a sea shell, grab the sea boyfriend and row to the center of the sea ocean (small ocean!)
- okay, this is so weird. i ask him if the moonlight is beautiful and he looks at me and says "yeah. beautiful."
- "a single drop [of this potion] is enough [to turn him human]. my potions are the best." no kidding! why did you make a whole bottle's worth then?
- The Deep Sea won't bless a love that betrays it. Only a witch would bless you. (mmkay? that was kind out of nowhere as a statement, not dialogue)
- and as Rafayel seems to take a drink, a bitter scent wafts towards me (the scent of the perfume in the real world, before i fell asleep). apparently its the scent of the human-changing potion?
- oh noes! the vapour -- a burning sensation in my chest, as i speak an incantation to stop the potion's effect. the seashell boat rocks with the unstable magic.
- Rafayel, what are you doing!?
- i fall off the boat and he leaps after me. "Don't be scared."
- I am going to cut a bitch in a minute, are you trying to turn ME human? I am the Witch of the Abyssal Rift! I have no need for stupid human legs and a stupid human life!
- ... and the memories resurface as he talks about kissing my fingers, singing to me, listening to my voice in answer.
- As my memories gradually return, Rafayel starts to dissipate.
- OH NO
- aaaand I wake up and Rafayel is right there, complaining about how hard I was grabbing his arm, and screaming in my sleep
- (impllied: sleepover with Rafayel?! we is luvs, now?)
- oh poo. no. apparently i've been asleep for more than a day and, worried, he rushed over with a spare key to wake me up.
- nice: "Have some water. You've been shouting so much your voice is hoarse."
that was interesting! so... did he let his Follower go, and they lost their memories under the ocean, hiding in the darkness with Blue and then eventually Red?
okay, a bit of goofing around in Audacity and I grabbed our "favorite song" from Rafayel's conch/whistle/flute that he was playing. i was able to get most (but not quite all!) of the ocean effects out of it.
