[You're inside a circus tent. It's pretty standard, if somewhat oldtimey-- there's a scattered concession stand here and there, amongst performers with doing acrobatics and little improv shows, and little games where you can knock over pegs and win a prize or bob for apples, with the arena lit by sunlight pouring in from the open flaps of the tent. You can interact with any and all of it.
Allen is dressed as a clown, wearing full makeup, balancing on a ball and juggling. The crowd seems to walk around him without seeing him, but he doesn't notice. Just cheerfully going through his routine. He'll perform for you, too, if you come over to him, but he won't say a word.
There's nothing terribly out of the ordinary about it, until a clown in a big round suit walks by with his dog, and then Allen's focus is entirely on him. He steps down from the ball, breath catching.
"Mana?" he whispers.
The tent flaps slip closed. The music stops. The crowd slows to a halt. Some of them might even seem strange now, as if there's something lurking under their skin, and staring fixedly at you. But Allen doesn't notice; not them, not you. And he runs off into a shadowed corridor of the tent, vanishing into the darkness.
...If you follow him, you might come out...
[the empty house]
Allen is standing in the middle of an empty house uncertainly, turning around and surveying his surroundings. He's in his own clothes now, sans any makeup or clownish accessories; if you remember the previous dream and you ask him about it, he won't know what you're talking about.
He doesn't recognize this house. It's quiet and spare, notably missing decorations on the wall (dark rectangles where paintings used to hang) and on the floor (spaces clean of dust where there used to be couches or dressers)... All that's left is a single wooden table and a single wooden chair, dust and cobwebs everywhere, and
in the adjoining room in the back, a beautiful piano, untouched by all of it.]
((ooc: both "dreams" are open! tag in at the beginning of either scene and we'll play through as far as you like! so if you're going with the circus dream, put [the circus] in your subject and start with encountering Allenclown in the normal circus~))