Alice Kennedy (rosemary_thyme) wrote in paxletalelogs, @ 2017-05-18 19:47:00 |
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Entry tags: | eris, uke mochi |
all i have to do is dream
Who: Alice, Uke Mochi, and Eris
What: The goddesses come to life in Alice’s dream
Where: The dreamscape of Pax
When: [Backdated] Sunday, May 14
“Are you awake?” The voice was soft, comforting, and just loud enough to stir Alice from her sleep. She had been feeling under the weather for days now, but only when she was at the apartment, really. Already she had called in an inspector to ensure there wasn’t some type of mold growing and the tests came up with nothing, but still her lack of energy persisted. So her time at home consisted of foggy memories, created from allergy medication, and many naps on various surfaces--on her couch, at her desk, in her bed.
While she lived alone, being woken by a feminine, soft voice didn’t strike her as odd. She wondered, as her mind woke up, if Isobel had stopped in, but when she opened her eyes she froze. Standing over her was a woman made of the herbs of the earth. Wheat hair fell over her shoulder and her eyes were filled with bits of seed and rice. Her arms, her torso, were made of grass, barley, strands of rice that were knit together to form her being. The plants even made a pattern on the dress that covered her body.
Alice had been this woman, she had seen from her eyes, but she had never seen her directly from an outsider’s point of view. “Uke Mochi,” Alice breathed and the woman’s grains moved to create a smiling mouth. She stepped away from the bed and her movements sounded like a breeze pushing its way through tall grass. Alice, wholly human, sat up in her bed and looked the woman over.
“Are you alive?”
“Yes and no,” Uke Mochi replied. “Both alive and lost. You know this.”
Alice shook her head. “No, that’s not what I meant… I mean you’re here. Now. You’re alive and in my apartment.”
“Yes and yes,” Uke Mochi replied and moved toward the open doorway of Alice’s bedroom. “Come on, child. Come with me.”
“Where do you want to go?” Alice asked, already moving from her bed like a child transfixed by a fairy. She slipped her feet into moccasins and pulled her hair back into a ponytail as she followed Uke Mochi out of her bedroom.
“I’m looking for the others,” the goddess replied as she moved through Alice’s apartment, pausing at different points to look at the various items Alice owned. Her camera, a picture of Alice and Brittany, the printed photos of food Alice had made. She pointed at the photos of various pastries and looked at Alice with a smile. “These are lovely. You make beautiful food.”
“You know what I do?” Alice asked, lingering in the doorway of her room, one hand gripping the other’s wrist, a foot curled over her other foot as she leaned against the doorway.
“I see it all,” Uke Mochi replied with a nod. “Your comings and goings, the food you prepare. That’s my particular favorite, to see what you bake. I try to help when I can, to tell you when rosemary is appropriate but thyme is not.” Her smile widened and her teeth were of white rice. “Rosemary and thyme.”
Alice let out a soft laugh that was similar to a sigh. “So you’re a part of me?”
“In many ways, but you are still you,” Uke Mochi said, noting the immediate look of worry that passed over Alice’s face. “I don’t control you, at least not that I know of. You go about and live your life, you make your own choices. I am only a witness.”
Alice nodded and moved her hands to hug herself. “But my hair was wheat…” she murmured.
“Yes, I suppose that can happen,” Uke Mochi said mournfully. “But you’re still a girl, still human. I think it’s only that sometimes I show.” Alice’s eyes rose to meet the goddess’s who moved forward and laid a gentle hand on Alice’s shoulder. “I do not seek to own or control you, dear one. I did not choose you either. I don’t believe I had much choice in the matter. I just suddenly was and what I was, was a part of you. I think. It’s all still quite curious to me.
“But of all things, I wanted to thank you.”
“Thank me?” This was a surprise for Alice. What would a goddess have to be thankful of from a mortal girl. Her cheeks grew pink and she shook her head. “I’m nothing special; there’s no reason for you to thank me.”
“But there is,” Uke Mochi reassured Alice. “You’ve looked into my history, you know of my past. My loss of life, my lack of defense. But this…” Her herb-made hand rose and touched Alice’s cheek. “If the moon god is alive, if he moves through this earth, I do not think he will find me when he looks upon you. Your difference is keeping me safe, so thank you. Thank you for being so kind and not disgusted by what I am.”
Alice blinked and quickly shook her head, worried she had somehow offended the woman for how she appeared. “I’m not disgusted, I promise. It was just… scary… it was scary to have all that’s happen happen. I didn’t know, I didn’t understand… I still don’t think I do entirely.”
Uke Mochi laughed and it was a laugh caught on the wind that had passed over a field. Distant and filled with air, there and gone again. “Oh dear one, I know. It is scary but please rest assured, I mean no harm.”
“I know you don’t,” Alice admitted, realizing only after she spoke that she actually believed what she said. This woman was nothing but sweet in the dreams that Alice had of her and now to see her before her, face to face, it was all the easier to realize just what this woman was to her. A weird guardian of some sort, a fairy godmother, but certainly nothing evil or filled with determination to destroy the redhead’s life. Alice took in a breath and offered the woman a smile. “So where is it that you wanted to go? Where are the others?”
“You dreamt of them as well,” Uke Mochi replied, withdrawing her hand and turning toward the rest of the apartment once more. She walked, the sound of steps in the forest but it was the forest stepping upon the clear floor. “Eris and Freyr, they are wonderful, and I feel them close.”
“I think I know who they are. My friends, Brittany and Rafael. They house Eris and Freyr like I house you,” Alice replied as she began moving forward, her steps quick to keep up with Uke Mochi as she went to the doorway out of the apartment. Uke Mochi paused by the door and Alice reached around, unlocking it and pulling away the chain, then opening the door wide to admit Uke Mochi to the hall.
Alice followed the woman who immediately continued down the hall and toward the stairs. “What do you want with them? I can take you to their apartments but I don’t know if they will be, you know, like you and free…”
Alice’s mind was already running wild. Rafael and Brittany would flip, in a good way, at seeing Uke Mochi beside Alice. They could ask so many questions and find out so many details. Maybe they could even figure out what was happening overall.
“That would be appreciated,” Uke Mochi said with a smile, turning to Alice on tendrilled feet before the imagery around them changed and they were wrapped in a sudden burst of sunshine.