Pretend to Be

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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
                           ? J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Death was all he had ever known. He was okay with it, because death would eventually come for all those he had come to know as a Dreamer. It was a sad fact, sure, but it was one that didn’t bother him so much. After all, death was much better, he thought. There was no need to feel bad about anything, and you didn’t need to eat, or sleep, and there would be no more anxieties. It was a beautiful feeling to be free, and it was his. He hadn’t needed to know what he was like when he was alive – if, in fact, he’d ever been alive. He’d seen his name on the clipboard, but who was to say it’d actually had been his name?

And though no one had ever told him what it was to be a Dreamer, Mordecai had gone with his instincts. His instincts were to help the abused and the broken, the sad and the lost. And he would do that until it was impossible for him to. He had no idea if it was what he was supposed to do, but it was what made him happy. And the rest of the people didn’t seem to be complaining too much. Most of them couldn’t see him, but that didn’t stop him from doing things for them.

Mordecai was crouched on top of a streetlight, his wide brown eyes watching the people below him. His toes curled into the post for balance and he blew into his hand to create the powdery wisps. He smirked and spread them out to the people below. “Ta-da.”

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“Found you!” A little girl wearing a bright pink sweatshirt tackled Alice's legs, making her take a step back to keep her balance. “You did, Lilly! You know what this means?” She crouched down to lillys height, looking her straight in the eyes. After a few seconds of serious silence, she carefully tapped her nose. “Your it!” Before she had a second to understand what happened, Alice shot off through the park.

She kept a steady pace, not fast enough to leave Lily behind, but not slow enough to let her catch up. She'd eventually let Lily tag her, it would be unfair if she didn't. But why make it easy? Thats how she played with all of her dreamings, she'd give them a hard time at first, but let them win at the end. It was supposed to teach them not to give up when things get tough, but truthfully Alice didn't like losing unless it was necessary. She jumped over a bench, stopping underneath a lamp post. Pausing to let Lilly catch up, she noticed something different. Wisps, dreamer wisps. But that would mean another dreamer was nearby. Before she had a chance to look for the source of the wisps, a loud thump sounded behind her, followed by a loud wail of pain.

Alice ran through the bench, to crouch next to her dreaming who had just ran into it.. “This is why we look where we're going.” Lilly wasn't too badly hurt.. apart from a broken nose. But you could always fix those, most of the time. She put her hands together, gently blowing on her palms spreading a purple mist over her, instantly stopping her cries. Alice helped her up, then sent her towards her mother who was looking frantically all over the park. Wiping her hands on her shorts, she glanced by the lamp post tilting her head in curiosity. She looked the other dreamer in the eyes, he seemed familiar.. but she couldn't put her finger on it. Inside she was buzzing with excitement, but outside she was too surprised to react to it yet.

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The wail of pain caught his attention and Mordecai bristled, hopping over to another lamp post to watch the scene below. At first glance, he almost thought the two girls were sisters, except… she didn’t have a heartbeat. Mordecai sat cross-legged on it, watching curiously. The mist from her hands was unmistakable – she was a Dreamer. He laughed as she brought the girl to her mother being, of course, ignored by the older woman. He was used to it by now, and as she didn’t seem to put much thought into it, she must have been, too.

The Dreamer must have noticed what he was, too, as she looked him in the eye. He gave a small wave and hopped down, landing gracefully in front of her as he circled her. He put his hands behind his head, a positively delighted smile on his face as he took her in. “You’re a Dreamer! I’ve not met another one in… well, ever!” he told her, nearly flipping from excitement.

He pointed at the little girl, then back to the Dreamer. “She’s your Dreaming? I don’t have one anymore – I just sort of… wander. Oh! I’m Mordecai. Cai for short. What’s your name, do you know?”

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She curiously circled the other dreamer, as he circled her. "I've never met another one either! How long have you been a dreamer? Do you know?" She glanced at the retreating figure of Lily and her mother, "Mhmm. Wait, your name's Mordecai? Thats my last name!" She touched the ground, jumping up and down with excitement. "My names Alice. But you can call me Ali if you want." She'd never met anyone with sort of the same name as hers. She looked him up and down, feeling like she was missing something. Oh well, she was forgetting things all the time. It would probably come to her later. 

"Whats your last name? If you have one. Do you remember?" She ruffled his hair, circling him again thoughtfully. "Do you remember anything from when you were alive?" Maybe she knew him from her life, it would explain the familiarity. Maybe he just had one of those faces.... She didn't know what one of those faces was supposed to look like, but she guessed it looked something like Cai's.