015 ~ [Voice]

[distressedude]

[For anyone who knows Ion well enough to be considered a friend, or perhaps just well enough to say you've had a conversation with him at some point in the past, you just might catch a filter at some point during the day. It's a small, weak, empty filter and it'll disappear only a few minutes after it's made, so chances are you might miss it. But for those who happen to see it, there's an explanation that follows... though there's no filter here.]

[His voice sounds rather tired, and perhaps a bit sad.]

...when you can't set up a filter to someone, it means they've gone home, doesn't it.

[The way he asks, it sounds like he already knows the answer.]

Comments

[markofthewise]

I'm really counting on that to be true. I mean, things would be pretty awkward if I go back now and a year and a half has gone by.

[distressedude]

Perhaps someone in the village who was sent home and then brought back again would know for certain? It's unusual, but sometimes people remember having been in Luceti before upon their return.

[markofthewise]

Oh yeah, I know, I've had it happen to friends before. At best, they'll talk about dreaming in Luceti. But who even takes their dreams seriously? I mean, honestly, my dreams were already weird back home. Growing wings isn't going to be the most unusual thing.

[distressedude]

[A soft laugh.] That's true. I'm sure I would find it difficult to take a dream like that seriously... assuming I wouldn't just forget it as soon as I woke up.

[markofthewise]

Maybe it means we're all dreaming right now.

[Yeah, Sokka isn't nearly so philosophical as to believe that. But he's throwing it out there before it sounded dramatic and appropriate.]

[distressedude]

[Another light chuckle. Sokka sure is a funny guy.] I would hope not. I can't imagine how late I must be sleeping in to have been dreaming all this time.

[markofthewise]

It only seems long. Dreams are weird like that.

[distressedude]

Perhaps that's why people tend to forget their dreams as soon as they wake up?

[markofthewise]

... yeah, or something. [He's not a sleep psychologist, man!] I don't tend to put much thought into that kind of thing.