Ludwig Karlfeldt
Depths of a Dream
??? - Night
---It's the usual tactic.
Knowing the reason why someone has chosen to fight can be a powerful clue towards being able to defeat them, or being able to keep the fight from happening at all, thus, it's only natural that the use of your ESP tends to be your opening move... While it's use on others had also been the reason you had wound up in this situation in the first place it's the sort of habit that you find difficult to break, simply because the information gleaned from others thoughts is simply so valuable that it's hard to give it up, especially because it makes achieving a "good ending" for both sides so much easier...
Of course, a lot of it is also your own natural curiosity, but it was hard for you to help that too, either way-
-in this case, the result is a bit more unexpected, or perhaps...
It's simply one that was easy to forget, namely:
---That is not really Fenrir.
While certain branches of philosophy certainly might imply that those you see within dreams are 'alive,' in a sense, the reality is that most of the people or things you would see inside of the dreams of others are simply cognitive beings, in this case, the Fenrir that you see before is more akin to a shadow than anything, Adala's memory of how the "wolf had been back then," thus-
"Retain my fleeting life? Ah, I see, it is a jest from worms."
-It does not have a real mind to be read, it's thoughts are static because the dreamer themselves cannot be 'sure' of what they were thinking back then, on that fateful day where she had apparently defeated two Divine Beings entirely on her own, in many ways, the only "Real People" that could be found here are yourself and Adala; combine that with the fact that the Divine Wolf doesn't seem to take too kindly to your words as it takes in a breath -landscape shifting along with it as if the simple act of it breathing was that of a vacuum- and it doesn't seem like your usual plan is going to take you too far-!
...But that's fine.
You had accounted for this anyway, while it's movements to rise are slow, the clapping and 'come here' motions Adala is making as she talks about "taking it for a walk," are pretty much guaranteed to piss it off... It's a far cry from the stoic commander that always seemed to take everything super seriously, like -rather than seeing it as just a job- she seemed to be enjoying her powers as a superhuman to an extent, but...
Those thoughts end there, along with quite a few other things, because-
"...How amusing."
-even though there should be nothing on the other end of your telepathy, because the target is simply a dream playing a role, a voice eventually cuts through all of that static anyway, and-
-the world changes with it.
An intense sense of vertigo, as if something had just pushed you hard from behind, although training keeps you on your feet; the wind picks up, as does the snow as a casual storm becomes a blizzard-!
"...!"
Adala disappears, as does the massive wolf in the distance, something that should be unlikely if not outright impossible considering this was apparently 'her' dream; it's a scenario that screams of outside interference, of someone using some form of supernatural phenomena to mess around in the dreams of another, but-!
More importantly than that-!
Where Adala and Fenrir have both seemed to vanish from the world around you in both spirit and form, there is someone lying on the ground nearby, yes...
The figure looks like that of a woman?
She's lying on the ground -seemingly unconscious, and being rapidly buried in snow- and strangely enough...
Her body seems to be wrapped entirely in chains...?
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Originally Posted by Arashi_Leonhart
