VOX Box: Weird Worlds 5
Characters[]
- Dreamling
- Dreamling
- Dreamling
- Desire of the Endless
- Drury Walker
- Angie Aimes
- Rose Walker
Location[]
- The Threshold, The Dreaming
- November 18th 2016, 0015 Universal Time
VOX Archive[]
- [vorpal crackle, gasps: 3 instances]
- Angie Aimes: Okay, what was that and where are we n-? Whoa, hold on... am I normal me again?
- Rose Walker: Yeah, you are?
- Angie Aimes: So we left the Dreaming?
- Drury Walker: Uh, I wouldn't be too sure about that... [footsteps, whack, metal clang, pause] There's still a faint vorpal thrum to our environment. I'm pretty sure we're still in the Dreaming. Maybe one of the outskirt realms like- [gasp] Oh, no... Rose, did you bring us to the Threshold?
- Rose Walker: I... I don't know! [footsteps, vorpal thrum] You want to take the wheel? Here! Please do! Be my guest!
- Drury Walker: Get that away from me, Rose. [footsteps]
- Rose Walker: Make me! Come on! Touch it! [footsteps]
- Drury Walker: I don't want to... [footsteps]
- Angie Aimes: Yeah, okay, you two are definitely siblings... I see it now. [sigh] So, I guess I got to be the mom here. [footsteps] Em, Rose, whatever... Put the rock back in your pocket. Drury, you be nice to your sister. She's trying, okay?
- [sigh: 2 instances]
- Angie Aimes: Okay, now you mentioned the Threshold? What's that?
- Drury Walker: It's the realm of Desire.
- Angie Aimes: Okay does it look like a high school locker room? Because that's what we're in.
- Drury Walker: It's the Dreaming. It's appearance is relative and mutable. How do you know it's a high school locker room?
- Angie Aimes: I don't know... Deja vu?
- Drury Walker: You've been in this locker room before?
- Angie Aimes: No, it's just... similar to ones I have been in before.
- Drury Walker: Rose?
- Rose Walker: I, uh, maybe... It' hard to say. I was in so many- [pause, gasp] Oh, I think I know when we are.
- Angie Aimes: When?
- Dreamling (Rose): [door opens, bare footsteps, sob, bare footsteps]
- Angie Aimes: Uh... is that teenage Em? In a swimsuit?
- Dreamling (Rose): [fabric shifting, wet slap of fabric]
- Drury Walker: Not what I wanted to see! [hands slapping face]
- Dreamling (Rose): [bare footsteps, sob, sob, valve turning, shower running]
- Angie Aimes: [chuckle] Wow... Okay, uh, Em? Is this a memory?
- Rose Walker: Yeah, I think so... [long sigh]
- [Ambient Filter: Shower Running]
- Dreamling (Angie): [door opens, footsteps] Hello? I hope you don't mind but, I, uh... I sw you storm in here. Is everything okay?
- Angie Aimes: Wait... Is that me? [scoff] Okay, this can't be a memory...
- Drury Walker: No... It probably is a memory. Just however Rose remembers it... or how the Threshold or the Dreaming is choosing to interpret it.
- Angie Aimes: Yeah, yeah... You just keep facing the corner there and keep quiet. I want to see this.
- Dreamling (Angie): [sigh] Look, if you want me to leave, I'll leave... I just wanted to make sure you're okay.
- Dreamling (Rose): [sniff, sniff] No. It's fine. I'm just... [long sigh] Not having a good day.
- Dreamling (Angie): [scoff] Why not? You just won, didn't you?
- Dreamling (Rose): Yeah, but... [sigh, sniff, sniff] My boyfriend didn't show. He promised he'd be here.
- Dreamling (Angie): [scoff] So what? You did awesome out there. [pause, chuckle] I wasn't even rooting for you. Well, truth is, I'm not rooting for anyone. This isn't really my scene. You should be proud.
- Dreamling (Rose): It's more than just the boyfriend. [pause] It's been a rough year, personally. It's really nice for you to say that. It means a lot to- [nervous chuckle] You're not just saying that.
- Dreamling (Angie): I don't just say things to just say them. I speak my mind. Always have.
- Dreamling (Rose): Yeah? [chuckle] Maybe I should give that a shot... [sigh] I'm just shy, I guess...
- Dreamling (Angie): [scoff] You're shy? Really? [pause] Because you're standing there naked and talking to me...
- Dreamling (Rose): Oh... [nervous chuckle] I'm sorry, I just... [hands slapping wet flesh, sigh] Want to give me my towel?
- Dreamling (Angie): Yeah, I can... That it?
- Dreamling (Rose): Mm-hmm... [valve turning]
- [End of Ambient Filter: Shower Running]
- Dreamling (Angie): [footsteps] You know, you seem fine now. [fabric shifting] Maybe I'll leave you alone.
- Dreamling (Rose): What? No! [pause, nervous chuckle] Please don't... I like talking to you. Please stay? A bit longer?
- Dreamling (Angie): [sigh] Yeah... [footsteps] Okay, but... Here. [fabric shifting] You should probably get dressed.
- Dreamling (Rose): [chuckle, fabric shifting] Deal.
- [ephemeral mist shifting]
- Angie Aimes: What? Where did they go? What happened?
- Drury Walker: [sigh, footsteps] They're gone. Rose stopped the memory.
- Angie Aimes: Em? Why did you do that?
- Rose Walker: I didn't mean to... I...
- Desire: It wasn't her. [fingers snap, sizzle, puff, puff] It was me. [bare footsteps]
- Drury Walker: Oh, [expletive].
- Angie Aimes: Who are you?
- Desire: Rose? Drury? [puff] Care to introduce me? [puff, puff]
- Rose Walker: I... I don't know who you are.
- Drury Walker: [sigh] Rose, Angie... This is my... our father.
- Angie Aimes: Father? [pause] She's a man?
- Desire: [chuckle] Gender is such a mortal concept, isn't it? [puff, puff] I am Desire. I take all manner of forms. It is interesting that you view me as a woman, Angie Aimes. [puff, puff] Perhaps, that means something?
- Angie Aimes: What are you talking about?
- Desire: [chuckle, puff] Drury and Rose are my children. I sired them. They are born of my stock. They see me as I am, as I choose to be in that moment, as do my siblings and others who know me as I truly am. But you and I have not met... not directly. As is the nature of what I am, you view me as a representation of who you most desire. [chuckle, puff, puff, puff] So, I am curious, Angie... do you see a family resemblance?
- Angie Aimes: [pause] What are you insinuating?
- Drury Walker: Wait... [pause] I thought you were my sister's friend... Are you two... a thing?
- [in unison:] Rose Walker: Uh... Angie Aimes: What? Rose Walker: I don't know... Angie Aimes: No, we're neighbors. Rose Walker: Well, neighbors with benefits. Angie Aimes: We're just friends.
- [silence: 3.2 seconds]
- Rose Walker: Wait, are you saying that there isn't something between us, Angie?
- Angie Aimes: Are you saying that there is?
- Rose Walker: Well, I don't know, but I feel a flood of emotions now since I touched this rock. I can't make sense of it all, but I feel like in another time and another place we do end up together... and we... [pause] We love each other.
- Angie Aimes: Em, that's- [pause, sigh] Em, I do love you.. but... [long sigh] I don't think we could be in a relationship as anything other than friends... [pause, sigh] You know how difficult this stuff is for me. I'm not relationship material. You know that, right?
- Desire: [puff, puff] Shall I save you two the trouble? [fingers snap, vorpal crackle]
- Dreamling (Angie): [giggle] That's funny. Can I... Can I ask you a question?
- Angie Aimes: What's this?
- Desire: [fingers snap, vorpal crackle] About forty minutes later than last time. [puff, puff, puff] My daughter and her new friend have had a great conversation. [bare footsteps] Rose just told a funny joke. Well, it wasn't that funny, but she really wanted her new friend to laugh and when she got that laugh, a new thought popped up in Rose's mind. [puff, bare footsteps, fingers coursing ephemeral hair, fingers stroking ephemeral skin] She wanted an answer to something that had been bothering her for months. [puff] "Do I swing both ways?"
- Drury Walker: Oh, you got to be kidding me... [scoff] Rose, is this that girl?
- Angie Aimes: What girl?
- Desire: The girl that changed everything for Rose... [fingers snap, vorpal crackle]
- Dreamling (Rose): Yeah, of course you can... [teeth biting lower lip]
- Dreamling (Angie): [sigh, nervous chuckle] I've been going through some things and I just... [sigh, giggle]
- Dreamling (Rose): It's okay. Go ahead and ask me... [pause] Please? I'll do it... Just ask me. I need you to ask me.
- Dreamling (Angie): [giggle, sigh] Okay, what the hell? Why not? Look, can I kiss you?
- [moist lip smack, moans: 2 instances, moist lip smack, passionate moans: 2 instances]
- Dreamling (Boyfriend): [door opens, footsteps] What the hell is this?!
- Desire: [fingers snap, vorpal crackle] We know how the rest of this happened...
- Angie Aimes: Oh my god... [pause, gulp] Em, this girl-
- Rose Walker: [sigh] Yeah... She was the first girl I ever kissed.
- Angie Aimes: No, there's more to it than that.
- Rose Walker: [long sigh] That boy, that was my boyfriend. He caught us making out. He told all my friends. They all turned on me. I tried to get him to take me back, I told him it didn't mean anything and it was just a kiss but even though I really wanted to forget it happened, even though I wanted everyone to forget it ever happened, it did happen... and it wasn't just a kiss. There was something there that always ate at the back of my mind. When things with Alex started to decline, all I wanted was to have her back in my life. [pause] And... before I knew it, within a month, she was moving into the apartment next door... [sigh] Except she didn't seem to remember who I was... [sigh] Or that we had met before in this locker room.
- Angie Aimes: I... [pause] I remember this a little differently than what we just saw. I guess memories are tricky like that. [metal clang] I remember these lockers being green... not pink. [sigh, footsteps] The floor had smaller tiles and the smell. [sniff] Was nowhere this pleasant. [chuckle] I don't remember having my hair in ponytail that day either. [sigh, chuckle] Nut I was going through some things myself. I... I came to the swim meet to cover the event for the school paper. [pause, chuckle] It was a big event. Tri-State Regional Championship or some such. Usually my mom or dad would come to these things with me, but they were busy so they dropped me off. [sigh] I didn't really know anyone there and didn't really have any idea what I was going to write about. Like I said, it wasn't my scene... I thought I went into the locker room to take a leak. [chuckle] And I recall the girl asking me to give her the towel before we got talking. [pause] But yes, I did ask a girl in a locker room if I could kiss her. [sigh] Like I said, I was going through some [expletive], too. I wasn't into boys like my friends. I thought, maybe, I liked girls. [pause, chuckle] Television wasn't really doing anything for me, nor were some magazines I found. I didn't know what came over me in that moment, but I gave it a go. When somebody barged in, I ran. I got scared. I didn't realize it was her boyfriend. I thought it was her dad. I thought she'd be in serious trouble. I felt awful... I thought I had ruined her life. [sigh, chuckle] Honestly, when I moved next-door, I thought you looked familiar. I forgot the girl's name in the locker room that day by then, but if you had introduced yourself as Rose... [pause, sigh] It may have jogged my memory.
- Drury Walker: Is this for real? You're the girl that Em first kissed?
- Angie Aimes: Yeah... [nervous chuckle] I guess so.
- Drury Walker: [footsteps] You did this, didn't you? [scoff] You were always meddling in our lives.
- Desire: [puff, puff] Meddling? [scoff] When you're my children, it's called "parenting", dear. [puff] Besides, this wasn't my doing... This was Rose channeling her instinctual abilities.
- Drury Walker: And what about me?! What about me?!
- Desire: What can I say, son? [puff, puff] Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug...
Trivia and Notes[]
- Parts of the Weird Worlds Storyline.
- Story continues from VOX Box: Weird Worlds 4.
- Story continues in VOX Box: Weird Worlds 6.