（ he shifts away from sasuke only to approach the bed. the little dinosaur gets picked up and turned over in his hands. it's the first thing he's actually interacted with, in the context of this illusion — and he's almost charmed to find there's a real weight and heft behind it, at least as his brain interprets it. ）
The god of dreams has a similar power. Hers is stronger — she's the only real god left, I barely even count compared to her, and she's taken on a lot of power to keep the universe functional, so she's... you could throw everyone with powers here in the Casino at her, and she'd swat them all like flies, so trust me when I say that's not a slight against you. But her and I used to talk like this, when it was the only way we could stay concealed from Kulo Vayn.
（ it was the only merciful thing given over to him in that long, thousand years. those moments of reprieve, where he was not forced into abject awareness of what his body, his hands were enacting. iantha would bring his consciousness to her realm, and she would build dreamscapes for him. places of peace and stillness and silence. the one she favoured was a subterranean pool of saltwater, buoyant and warm, and he remembers trying to drown himself in it, and her hand at his nape as she fished him out and told him softly that she could not permit him to die even in dreams. ）
It's more a feeling than an innate knowledge. I feel like I could... （ he sucks at his teeth with a considering sound. ） put my hand into it and pull at the seams until it gives. But some of that is probably because you warned me, and some of that is probably KV's power at work, resisting any sort of mental tampering.
cw: suicidality
（ he shifts away from sasuke only to approach the bed. the little dinosaur gets picked up and turned over in his hands. it's the first thing he's actually interacted with, in the context of this illusion — and he's almost charmed to find there's a real weight and heft behind it, at least as his brain interprets it. ）
The god of dreams has a similar power. Hers is stronger — she's the only real god left, I barely even count compared to her, and she's taken on a lot of power to keep the universe functional, so she's... you could throw everyone with powers here in the Casino at her, and she'd swat them all like flies, so trust me when I say that's not a slight against you. But her and I used to talk like this, when it was the only way we could stay concealed from Kulo Vayn.
（ it was the only merciful thing given over to him in that long, thousand years. those moments of reprieve, where he was not forced into abject awareness of what his body, his hands were enacting. iantha would bring his consciousness to her realm, and she would build dreamscapes for him. places of peace and stillness and silence. the one she favoured was a subterranean pool of saltwater, buoyant and warm, and he remembers trying to drown himself in it, and her hand at his nape as she fished him out and told him softly that she could not permit him to die even in dreams. ）
It's more a feeling than an innate knowledge. I feel like I could... （ he sucks at his teeth with a considering sound. ） put my hand into it and pull at the seams until it gives. But some of that is probably because you warned me, and some of that is probably KV's power at work, resisting any sort of mental tampering.