Envy (sleep_tight) wrote in elric_apts, @ 2011-08-01 20:46:00 |
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Current mood: | cranky |
Entry tags: | gatemaster, haganenomore, sleep_tight |
In the garden, Colin...
Envy tosses and turns in his bed, napping underneath too-heavy-for-the-heat blankets. He is dreaming. He sees the Gate in the dream, and it stares at him, warning him for all he could tell.
The past week was weighing on his mind before he went to bed, tired of thinking. He'd spent the past few hours absorbed in books that could tell him about such strange sciences as time travel and portals through the universes. It had hit him that the Gate was one such portal. When faced with Shou's question about how he'd get his life back, he had no idea how Ed had done it. So he ran to his books, trying to tap into the reserve of his brain that still held out for daredevil experiments, the Nexus and possibly the Gate. If he could find the Gate, maybe what he had heard at the Sign about the Gate could help him. If he could just face it, maybe... but he had no way of summoning it.
He woke after the Gate in his dream slammed shut, almost falling out of bed at the dream-boom of its doors. He got up silently and went outside after making coffee. It was still three in the afternoon, and he lit up a cigarette and sipped the too-strong espresso outside the door of the second building, bleary-eyed in the sunlight. He scanned the grounds, chain-smoking, then let out an audible hiss of frustration. Couldn't he ask somebody about the Gate? Was that allowed?
He was toying with the idea of bothering the landlord, but decided against it. Instead, he leaned against the doorframe, every so often taking out another cigarette, chain-smoking out of stress.