Dreaming the First

[philip_charming]

Warnings: TAUNTINGS and DISNEY under the cut!
Dream Effects: Shocked surprise at first, fading to tenderness- and then a precipitous fall into miserable despair, gradually hardening to bitter determination
Note: While this is no happy dream, it's also not a Moon Cycle nightmare; no illness shall be forthcoming.

NggggghhhAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

[Philip jerked upright in bed, covered in sweat and staring wildly at the dark of his bedroom- and at no point does he notice the faint glimmer of the Dreamberry at his bedside table, its purple glow fading away.]

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

I'm quite glad to hear that. [She's safe in their company, then. GOOD.]

...Wait, the moon turned everything into a jungle? How on Earth did it manage that? [The mind-tweaking thing was considerably easier to cope with; everyone knew the full moon stole men's minds. Why else would they be called 'lunatics'?

And those cards... they surely sounded like maliciously random magic to him. The sort of thing a child fairy childish and immature mind with far too much power at its disposal would find funny, much like scattering spikes on a dark floor. Philip did NOT approve.]

It's well you told me these things, Milady Liddell; I might well have fallen victim to them otherwise. I owe you great thanks.

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

The cards can show up anywhere at any time. Sometimes the things they do last a week, sometimes only three days. But you have to be careful because the cards can turn you mute or make you terribly ill!

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

[Ooh, that IS good to know!] So just avoid all cards, everywhere? I imagine that might be difficult, but should be possible.

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

I'm... afraid it doesn't work that way. The cards can show up even as you're brushing your hair and they magically make you touch them... but... well, thankfully they don't show up very often.

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

...Well, that does make things a little more tricky. They can make you touch them, you say? Someone's enjoying that kind of sport a bit too much.

[Don't you worry, tiny adorable Alice; the frown he's wearing isn't for you at all!]

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

They don't... often appear though.

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but just because a bad thing doesn't happen often doesn't make it any less bad, now does it?

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

I know that.

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

I'd hoped you would.

I don't doubt that you've just saved me from making some serious blunders, o Sage Teacher Alice. [He rose, bowing floridly to the Dreamberry with a smile; she's had a bad enough time as it is, and better by far to get her grinning again.] I promise, I shall do my utmost to comport myself as a student of yours should, and not betray your formidable tutelage and fairy wisdom.

Perhaps we might meet once again, in town at some time? [He'd give her a caaaarving...]

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

[She blinks and then giggles, terribly amused.] I would be happy to teach you as much as I know! And we could certainly meet.

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

[YAAAY, he got the giggle!]

I look forward to it, Milady Liddell. See you then!

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Until then, your highness.