Video| In all my dreams, it's never quite as it seems

[ushahin]

[When the video opens up, Ushahin is lying once again inside his bathtub. It's about five o' clock in the morning, so at least he's only waking up the resident of Hadriel up at the crack of dawn instead of the middle of the night this time. He's considerate that way.]

Does anyone else hear it? The music? It's so lovely.

[There is, of course, no music. What he's hearing is the tune he's caught from passing through someone's mind while they sleep. It's had quite the effect on him.]

Music makes everything quiet inside.

[He starts humming to himself, tapping his fingers to keep rhythm. If that tune sounds somewhat familiar, well, it might have been your mind he was tapping into.]

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[fearlessherosheart]

... Are you quite well?

[Because this seems rather odd to Tazendra; people can act strange because they feel off, or because they are strange people. Tazendra knows she is a bit strange to people who are not Dzurlords.]

[ushahin]

That's a matter of perspective. Some would say I am and others that I am not.

[He's plenty strange to the people here and knows himself to not be within the realm of sanity as most people know it. Still, is it truly madness if he's merely seeing (or hearing, in this case) what's inside people's heads?]

[fearlessherosheart]

What do you say? This is strange for me, but I often find others strange.

[ushahin]

I would say that my mind is...odd. I can do things that others cannot and it leaves me far different than other fellows you might find here.

[fearlessherosheart]

What manner of things?

[ushahin]

I can see into the mind of people and see their thoughts. When they sleep, I can do the same with their dreams.

[He braces himself for what sort of reaction Tazendra will have. Most react with fear or anger. On more rare occasions, he gets lucky and they react otherwise.]

[fearlessherosheart]

You are a witch, then?

{Tazendra is neutral. Really, she's not terribly good at hiding her emotions, and seeing is not the same as influencing. Which is why people develop psychic defenses. Tazendra is arrogant enough to assume that this will never backfire on her horribly.]

[ushahin]

[Well, that is a better reaction than he could have hoped for. He is so very tired of being lectured as to why he should stay out of people's heads and be good forever and ever and ever.]

I suppose I am, though I have never been called as such before. Dreamspinner is the title I fashioned for myself to explain what I can do.

[fearlessherosheart]

Well, it is certainly an interesting byname.

I have worked with witches before, though only once.

[ushahin]

Were they a good witch? Or a bad witch?

[He's neither in his own mind, caught somewhere between the light and the dark.]