Chapter 2
Dreams
When I woke up, something didn't seem quite right. I sat up and looked around. I seemed to be in a golden bedroom, definitely not my hive. I looked at my clothes; they seemed to be golden pajamas, golden pants, shoes, shirt, and a duplicate of my room in gold. I got up and looked around to see a window. I stuck my head out the window to see a beautiful city, glittering gold with white… Things… Walking around. Oddly, something seemed familiar about this place…. As if I've been here before.
"Where am I?" I whispered to myself. I saw that I was in a huge tower. "Is this a dream? Or is it reality?" I asked to myself. Might as well try something I can't do in reality. I thought to myself as I imagined myself floating up. I kept my eyes closed as I did this, hoping it would work. I didn't feel anything different, until my head hit something. My eyes shot open and I saw I was off the floor and I had hit my head on the ceiling. Well, time to explore that city. I controlled my flight so that I went out the window.
I saw other towers, I went to the tower closest to mine and went inside it's window. I saw a much bigger room than mine, scalemates littered the floor and scribbles on the wall showed different things. I looked to the recooprecoon and saw someone was in it.
I looked into it and saw a troll with pointy, short horns. She had a golden T-shirt with a moon on it. She wore red sunglasses and she had short black hair. She had a grin on her face, revealing pointy teeth to match her horns. She had a darker gold pants to match the golden T-shirt that she had. On her feet were red shoes.
"Is this… Chief…?" I asked myself. I pondered on that as I flew to the next tower. I was careful not to touch the floor as I flew in due to it being the home of many four sided dice. Shattered 8-balls were everywhere and on the desk there were 8-sided dice. I went to the coon again and looked inside. This time I saw a troll with different shaped horns, one with a spike going down and the other splitting and rounding at the top. She wore a golden dress and had an eyepatch with 8 lights. She had blue lipstick on and her eye was closed.
"Vriska…?" I asked myself yet again. I flew to others and saw trolls I've never met before. One had large horns that wouldn't fit in his recooprecoon, this one I knew was Tavros. Another had a dual colored recooprecoon. Another one had violet-blood horns and half his body was hanging out of his. Another was a girl whose horns were curved toward the center of her head with fangs overlapping her lips. Another was a boy that was noticeably short and had very short, nubby horns. I flew over the golden city and I saw the white things pointing at me and a crowd gathering. What are they doing? I saw that they were gathering at a huge castle. There was a white thing that was taller than all of them. Should I ask the tall one where I am? She might be able to tell me… I decided to fly down to her.
"Greetings, Siren of Blood." She bowed slightly while the smaller ones kneeled.
"Siren of Blood? What's that?" I asked her.
"You, you're the Siren of Blood. That is your title and reputation. You're one of the trolls who are going to save Skaia." She explained.
"Who are You? What's Skaia?" I felt like an idiot.
"I'm the Prospitian Queen." I immediately kneeled to her and looked down.
"I-I'm sorrY, I didn't know I was addressing roYaltY." I spoke clearly and formally.
"Rise, you don't have to kneel. After all, we have met before. Skaia is the planet we orbit around." The queen pointed up. I stood up and looked at the planet that seemed to make up the sky. The clouds… They're the ones I saw on my husktop screen.
"We have met before? Skaia is in danger?" I asked.
"Yes. There are Meteors coming to destroy it and us. We're trying to reason with the Dersians to protect Skaia together but negotiations haven't been going well. To answer your first question, we have met. Long ago when you were 3 sweeps old." The queen explained.
"But… WhY don't I remember this?" I asked her.
"You were young and in shock. You blamed yourself for what happened to your lusus. I comforted you while you were weak. You were here for a little over five months. One day, you fell to the ground, asleep. I assume you had started to get over what happened, enough to build a make-shift hive and find a trade road." She explained.
"But, wouldn't I have remembered this?" I asked her.
"Do you remember much at all after your lusus's death?" She countered.
"No, I just remember the feeling in the first few months. After that I can only remember meeting Nepeta." I said thoughtfully. But…. I also remember someone I didn't quite trust…. A high-blood, very high.
"Exactly. Either way, a few sweeps past then the Seer of Mind woke up. Of course, the Knight of Blood, your partner in title, hasn't even budged from his sleep." She explained.
"What is the thing with Blood? Knight of Blood, Siren of Blood… Are there others?" I asked her.
"No. You and the Knight of Blood are the only titles that have 'Blood' in them." The Queen replied.
"The other people sleeping in the towers… What are their titles?" I kept asking questions.
"Knight of Blood, Mage of Doom, Page of Breath, Sylph of Space, Seer of Mind, Thief of Light, Knight of Shadow, and Bard of Rage are their titles. The Seer of Mind has already awoken." The queen listed. "I'm afraid I can't hold you any longer. You must return to your tower to sleep. You'll be here again soon enough." The queen urged me to leave.
I flew to my tower and slept in the Recooprecoon. I thought over all that I had learned by asking the questions to the queen. Her politeness, as if she were talking to one equal or even higher than she. Yet… She spoke gently as if I were a child, ignorant and naïve to the world.
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