15883/Dream for Faith

Dream for Faith
Date of Scene:	10 December 2023
Location:	Wherever Faith is sleeping this night.
Synopsis:	Faith sees the wendigo dream.
Cast of Characters:	Harry Dresden, Faith Lehane

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Harry Dresden has posed:
A restful sleep moves towards something else and Faith fades her way into a dream unlike the norm. She can look all around her and see a wide expanse of mountains and trees as far as she can see. The air around her is chilled enough she can see her breath and animals make their way around her.

Unfortunately, she can smell decay and death nearby. If she looks to her right, she will see a dead body. There isn't enough to make up the smell that permeates the air. Something is adding to the smell.

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane enjoys a nice good sleep after a long night of slaying..What she doesn't care too much for is a disturbing bloody nightmare that always feels like an extension of her job or whatever you wanna call it. When she 'wakes' up in the dreamworld and smells death and decay, then a corpse, she just groans.

"Shit. I knew I shouldn't have had that last drink...Now what sort of crazy wonderland did I wake up in?"

Harry Dresden has posed:
The smell gets worse even before she reaches the body. Something has been eating on the body as the chest and stomach have been hollowed out and the edges are jagged like teeth marks.

The situation is complicated more when she realizes that out in the woods around her, something is moving. Something that sounds at least person sized and walking bipedal through the woods, drawing nearer to her.

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane wrinkles her nose, and while she is no stranger to death, she has never encountered this level of decay before. "Well, that's just disgusting, who had the nerve to die here and get eaten by worms out in the open?" she mutters to herself as she insiders whatever is left of the body, but her slayer sense quickly alerts her to something still lurking in the shadows around her.

Immediately she crouches into a defensive stance, reaching for the clawed gloves ever present on her belt that Thomas once gifted her. The Scythe would have been handy right now - Yknow, if she had known she was gonna fall asleep in this hellhole.

"Come on then ugly! Show yourself!"

Harry Dresden has posed:
From deep in the woods something watches her and she can feel that in the air. All the animals around her have fallen silent. The woods are the kind of quiet that would indicate a predator's presence.

An antlered deer skull looks at her from the brush, body hunched over. Then the head rises, a two legged being emerging. It is tall...real tall. The creature looks like it hasn't eaten in weeks. It is skinny enough to see its ribs. Blood oozes from its mouth, staining the neck and chest indicating it has recently eaten.

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane should be scared but you don't get to be the slayer fir nothing and she's survived a lot, she'll survive this too.

She smirks up at this giant undead reindeer and tilts her head, "So what? you supposed to be Rudolph the undead reindeer?" she snorts, looking for weakness as she speaks. damn, where's the m scythe when you need it?

Harry Dresden has posed:
The creature cocks its head to the left, like a dog hearing a high pitched noise. Curious. The eyes have a glow that could rival a devil's own for the dread they should inspire. A soft, low groaning sound and then a high pitched whistling sound escape it. It takes a steps towards her and the smell get stronger and it makes a sound. It almost sounds like a word,"..huuunngerr.."

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane wrinkles her nose, stepping back from the corpse. "Hey don't let me stop you, fresh rotting corpse is all yours.." she glances around, looking for an escape route, getting nervous. if it's hungry will it leave her alone?

Harry Dresden has posed:
The creature is tall, and so very skinny like it has never eaten despite the fact it ate the person recently. It looks towards where the body lays and contemplates for a moment. Then when it moves it turns its attention towards her again. A low, rumbling growl escapes the throat. The scent is worse now as it breathes at her. Again with the head cocking to the side and then without warning it leaps at her. The teeth look human with elongated canines, pieces of rotted flesh and fabric between them. The creature's deformed, almost human looking face fills her perception and everything goes dark as the dream ends.

Does she wake, sleep on and move to another dream, or do her dreams just remain dark for the rest of the night?

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane's eyes widen as she darts back, scrambling back really as she nearly slips and falls on something squishy..

She utters a curse, or a string of em, eyes wide in fear as it wraps its maw around her..

"Nooooooo!!" she screams..

And then wakes up in a cold sweat.
#r"The hell?"