You are stirred from your sleep by a gentle rocking. You open your eyes, and feel a light tap on your cheek. It takes a few seconds before you realize you're floating on water, but you don't panic. Rather, the feeling is very relaxing You're aware that you're back in your original body, and that you must be in another of these strangely lucid dream worlds. You have no problem with it, since you feel so at peace right now. You decide to enjoy the sensation for a while longer, floating effortlessly on your back in this, what is it anyway? A lake? You enjoy your time, looking up at the clear blue skies above you.

After a few minutes of aimless floating, you feel a soft brushing against your back, which quickly gives way to a solid surface. You must have drifted onto the coast, then. You consider pushing your way back out into the water to enjoy floating around a little bit when a little girl pops her head into view, long blonde hair tied at the ends with ribbons looks down at you, head cocked to one side. She looks you over, studying you, with her deep yellow eyes, and when her eyes meet yours, she gives you a smile.

"Hi," she says cheerfully. "What's your name?"

You watch her for a few seconds, her eyes watching your face as she waits for a response.

"I'm-" you respond, but your voice fails you before you can say your name, even if you can feel your mouth forming the sounds. The little girl gives a small giggle.

"That's a funny sounding name," she says, looking around for a moment. You take a moment to notice her rather simple looking purple dress, adorned with the occasional line patterns, before she looks back down at you, then crouches down and pokes you on the forehead. "You wanna play with me?" she asks with the same cheer. It wouldn't hurt to play with her afterall, since you're in a dream. You manage a nod, and she smiles and stands back up quickly before running off out of sight before you can get yourself to a standing position.

Once you manage to pull yourself to your feet, you look in the direction the little girl ran, only to find yourself looking at a woman, a fan covering half of her face, but the same tell tale golden ponytails give her away.

"Such a nice person you are," she says, mouth concealed by the fan. You notice that her clothes look much more elaborate now, with the main portion of her dress being a light blue with white patches. "Offering to play with a little girl you just met, even though you know you could never stay here with her."

She closes the fan and rests it against her other hand, which she has tucked up against her body. She takes a few steps towards you, and you feel a lingering memory. You've heard this voice before, somewhere, but where? This woman can apparently see your thoughts, because she offers a slight giggle, with a very eerie echo of the little girl's voice following shortly after hers. She stops approaching you and simply stands there, watching you. She idly taps the closed fan against her hand, which draws your attention. In that moment, you realize she did it on purpose to lure you into looking in the direction of her chest. She offers another laugh.

"You like what you see?" she asks, leaning forward while looping one arm across her chest, just under her bustline. While you can't deny that she is endowed, you notice something else bizarre. The white patches on her dress look like they're moving. "Maybe you'd like a closer look?"

You look up at her, surprised, and don't have time to react to her hands closing in on the sides of your head. She pulls you forward without effort and draws you towards her bosom. Instead of meeting with solid matter though, you seem to pass right into her, and her hands come off your head as you fall through an impossible hole in the sky, entering a total freefall with no ground in sight. Now you panic, and you instinctively try to fly, only to find that you are making no headway in the matter. The clouds around you whip past you as you plummet through endless sky, your mind racing. Even though this is just a dream, you can help but feel the fear as your thoughts are choked out by the sound of wind rushing past your ears.

You're too busy worrying to notice the woman is right beside you again, falling through the air. Instead of the wild tumbling you're doing however, she's falling perfectly straight, head pointed in the direction you're travelling. She falls past you, then seems to slow her fall slightly, and looks down at you. Down from her perspective at least.

"Now why are you rolling around like a fool?" she says, her voice completely drowning out the speeding winds. You blink in your confusion and sit up, propping yourself up in the grass on one hand, and rubbing your head with the other. Why were you rolling around like that? Wait, no, you were just falling. You look around at the grasslands that surround you, then back to the woman. She's gone. How annoying.

You get to your feet once more, looking around at the endless field of grass. While not entirely unpleasant for a dream, it is a little boring. Being as lucid as it is, you wonder how much control you have over the world, and simply through imagination, you create a forest from nothing, watching as the trees spring from the ground fully formed and rise around you. You quickly find that flight is restored to you, and float above the treetops. You get an oddly nostalgic feeling at the view, thinking back to Alice's house. You hear a creaking sound behind you, and spin around to see something that surprises you; a windowed tower poking out from the trees. Alice's house? Now you're intrigued, and decide to float over to check it out.

It's much as you remember, right down to the locks, the scorch marked walls, and the window that Marisa uses to climb in, you now use too. Once you get inside though, you notice something that makes your head jump. The front portion of the house, where you spent most of your time, is fully formed, but looking towards the farther parts, the room seems to break away into a deep, inky blackness spotted with lights. It only takes a comet streaking past to make you realize that it's opening out into space. No way, you float back out of the house and look at it from the outside. It's fully formed outside, but the inside is something else entirely. How bizarre. You lose interest though, since it's not really anything you haven't seen before. You should imagine something else now, something new.

[] You envision a large, glorious castle built next to a clear river.
[] You envision a grand tower, topped by a beautifully decorated red bell.
[] You envision a mountain of dolls, each holding a rusted looking key.
[] You envision a night sky, just after sunset, with a large and clear waxing gibbous moon.
[] You envision a cold, remote cave in a far mountain, formed out of limestone.

God damn it how can I fail so many times at making a thread. orz Pic related, my face after failing to correctly make this thread FOUR time.

Putting this up for character votes. Going to sleep now, and will be returning in about 6-7 hours and getting to the actual thread.