EVENT: SPACE PIRATES ▒ OXYGEN GARDENS

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Oxygen Gardens
WARNINGS: Camping.
SUMMARY: Hanging out in camp, discussing pirates, etc.
NOTES: Open to all!

Camping may not be an expected activity on a spaceship, but the gardens are large and have clear, grassy areas for people to gather together. You can help set up tents, inventory supplies or guard the perimeter — just keep an eye out for any strange faces trying to sneak in...

Comments

[wolfdreamer]

[An animal party is a silly idea, and Bran smiles at the thought. It would not end well, he knows that--not with predators like the direwolves forced to keep company with the quieter animals. Perhaps there would be two parties. The question of danger and freedom, boredom and safety--that sort of relates, doesn't it?]

Animals can be kept safe in cages, but they become unhappy. People are the same. If people want to stay safe, they should--but if they want to go out, they should be allowed to do that, too, even if there is danger.

[He looks down at the gleaming metal of his robotic legs, with a little frown.]

I wish there were more places to go aboard this ship. Everything is the same.

[skindeep]

You still have your dreams. You can go anywhere in them.

[A poor substitute for most people, not even worth mentioning. But maybe reality has invaded and faded them yet, even if he sounds beyond his years.]

[wolfdreamer]

[Bran looks up at that, sharply, and for a moment surprise is writ plain across his face. Dreams. He should be more careful, he should have more control of himself, that's so, but--]

What do you mean?

[skindeep]

[Noah wasn't expecting that reaction, the sudden zeroing in on his words. It takes him a moment to recover, to explain a deeper meaning to something that most people take at face value.]

Well, there are no limits to dreams. You could add anything you wanted to the ship - or leave it entirely. You could go home again, if only for a few hours.

[wolfdreamer]

[That's so. Bran knows all about those sorts of dreams. And even those dreams can be different: there can be a boy's dreams of Winterfell, and there can be dreams of a very different Winterfell. But there are still other dreams, too.]

I've dreamed those dreams. Everyone aboard this ship likely has, since everyone wants to return home. But-- [He hesitates, for a beat.] Do you think that there are dreams that might come true?

[skindeep]

I believe that anything's possible where dreams are concerned.

[Noah tilts his head, encouraging.]

Have you had a dream like that?

[wolfdreamer]

[There are secrets that you can tell to some people, and there are secrets which you must keep to yourself, forever. But this man's openness about dreams gives Bran pause. No one but Jojen speaks of dreams like that. They are only dreams, Maester Luwin had told Bran, but Jojen had green dreams. Jojen would know. But who aboard this ship can Bran trust like he trusts Jojen?]

My friend, Jojen Reed, has greensight. When he has green dreams, they always come true. [He hesitates still more, looking down at his knees.] I'm not like Jojen, but I think-- I could know things.

And it's not fancy. It's real. [He is quick to defend his claim, even if he doesn't look up.]

[skindeep]

I believe you.

[Noah's quick to tell him that, and not because he's trying to humour a young boy. He hadn't known at his age that his dreams weren't just dreams. But he can imagine trying to tell someone, his parents, as open-minded as they were. It would've been dismissed as the imaginings of a child.]

These things that you know, are they about your home or the Tranquility?

[wolfdreamer]

[At that, Bran does look up. There are few who would believe him in Westeros. But here--there are so many types of magic here. It is not so hard for people to believe.]

About my home. I wonder if it would work here. I can-- [He hesitates, and knits his fingers through the thick ruff of fur at Summer's neck. He should guard his tongue, mind his words, but these are all things he has been thinking of without the chance to say.] There are other things I can do, here. But if there were some way I could know things that would happen--or even things that had happened, before-- that would help, wouldn't it?

But I think the ship would want to keep those things from us.