[Text/Audio]

[dreamtamer]

Date: [3/18]
Characters: Thom

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 [A new number appears on the network, this time drawn out in block letters, and quickly filled in with different patterns using colored pencils. And then a thump, as Thom notices that Gizmo has spotted one of the family cats and hastily drops his sketchpad on the desk.]

Gizmo! What are you doing? 

[The sound of footsteps and a second voice.]

I wanted to play, but it ran away again. I don't think cats are very good at playing.  

Comments

Re: [Audio]

[dreamtamer]

What's context?

Does it taste good?

Re: [Audio]

[iamnotgod]

[And THAT just makes Walter laugh, though he cuts it short so as to not give the wrong impression.]

It's the events that surround a memory, that combine with the content; whether everything looks taller or shorter than they do for you right now, whether the sky looks like a color you can see from Earth - whether there is a sky.

Names and emotions can be tied up in context, too. People you've never met, in places you haven't been to, or don't look like places you've ever even seen.

Re: [Audio]

[dreamtamer]

That kind of sounds like it could be a dream too. How do you know that it's someone's memory and not a dream?

Re: [Audio]

[iamnotgod]

By what precedes it. That hollow feeling, and the heartbeat - those will always happen first.

[Though that doesn't mean it couldn't be the other person's dream...]

Re: [Audio]

[dreamtamer]

A hollow feeling and a heartbeat? So its always like that?

I don't know if I like that. It was a little scary when that happened before.

Re: [Audio]

[iamnotgod]

I know what you mean, about it being scary.

[And while Walter wishes he could be reassuring... It's gotten to him badly before.]

But you're not the only one hearing it, if that helps.

Re: [Audio]

[dreamtamer]

It does help a little. Its still a little scary thinking about what might happen.