Anytime Anywhere

[timelessmage]

⭐ Who: Chifuyu/Frieren and you!
⭐ When: Late October
⭐ Where: The Dreamer Union, Domremy Apartments, the Reflection Glades, the Abandoned Dojo… and maybe more?
⭐ What: Chifuyu arrives in town and settles in! …then proceeds to spend as much time as she possibly can in the Dream Sphere.
⭐ Warnings: Nightmare-induced memory loss and the death of a mother figure may come up in threads and will be warned for.

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Dream Sphere: Reflection Glades | OTA

[timelessmage]

[Though these parts of the Dream Sphere are unfamiliar to Frieren, she was able to get the lay of the land quickly thanks to her many years of experience as a Dreamer. This place looks quite safe, and it's rather similar to one of her favorite haunts from before she moved to Yumemigaoka—in other words, an ideal spot to practice magic with minimal Torment interference.

However, she's not working on any kind of combat abilities right now. Or at least, it doesn't seem like it? She's crouched in the middle of a clearing, tapping the tip of her staff to the grass before lifting it up slowly, glowing energy gathering at its end. The magic takes a vague flower-like shape for a split second, then dissipates into the air almost immediately.

She tries this again and again, with variations for the speed of her movement and the amount of energy she gathers. Sometimes, she even forgoes the staff entirely and gently touches the dirt with her fingers instead. But no matter how she changes things up, she's never satisfied with the results (or lack thereof).

Even though she's absorbed in what she's doing, don't expect to be able to sneak up on her easily unless you can somehow conceal your magical presence. If you're not inclined to interrupt her, she'll eventually sit down with a sigh and the barest hint of a frown as she lays her staff by her side, deep in thought.]

[flatcola]

[ Dreamer Mind, Kozakura, is content to watch. Frieren is clearly focused on whatever she's doing - an experiment, or something else? She's very much taking her time to compare results based on different approaches, so she doesn't want to interrupt, but she does want to bug her to see if it's anything interesting once she takes a break.

She's probably been spotted - she's not concealing her presence even though she can.

When Frieren sits down, she takes a long moment to speak up. ]

Penny for your thoughts?

[timelessmage]

[Frieren had indeed noticed Mind's presence a while ago and taken a minute or two to analyze her powers, just out of curiosity. The fact that she had the ability to conceal her presence but wasn't using it reassured her that she had no hostile intent—not that she had any reason to be wary of fellow Dreamers.

Frieren doesn't bother to stand up when Mind shows herself. Instead, she just looks up. …Well, it's not like Mind is towering over her, so she doesn't have to crane her neck or anything. Despite the fact that she just spent a good while failing to accomplish her goal, her voice is calm and level, with no apparent trace of frustration.]

I'm trying to recall a spell a Nightmare took from me.

[Though in an ideal world, she would prefer to keep it to herself, what Frieren is doing isn't exactly a secret. Part of the reason she moved to Yumemigaoka in the first place was to see if contact with fellow Dreamers would help her, after all.]

[flatcola]

[ She'll never assume that every single Dreamer is completely harmless... just in case.

Otherwise, she's small and not much of a fighter. ]

Ah. Now that's a complicated subject.

[ Let her poke your brain about it. ]

Any progress?

[timelessmage]

This is the best I can manage.

[Chifuyu demonstrates, picking up her staff and repeating the movement from earlier. Once again, the flower-shaped magical construct vanishes in an instant, as if it can't hold a solid form.]

Creating a flower shouldn't be a difficult spell to master, yet I can't get anywhere with it. I know I've cast it before, too.

[flatcola]

It's not the sort of thing I'd do so I can't help you from a crafting perspective.

[ Her repertoire is basically 'don't get hit' and 'win fight with minimal exertion'. ]

So it's just a matter of repetition to try to get your memories to rebuild those pathways.

[timelessmage]

I wonder. Aren't memories lost from Nightmare attacks irrecoverable?

[Frieren curls up, hugging her knees.]

Besides, I can't help but think I'm missing something.

[flatcola]

Not to make you a guinea pig, but there are always ongoing studies in that regard.

[ It waxes and wanes depending on whether or not researchers think they've found a new angle. ]

Were you solo when you did it before?

[timelessmage]

I suppose that makes sense. The Dream Sphere is still rather new. Are there any recorded cases of lost memories being recovered?

[Even if the answer is yes, Frieren isn't going to hold out hope that her memories will return on their own. She'd much rather proactively seek what she lost.]

I wasn't alone. My mentor taught me.

[flatcola]

Yeah, but it's not really consistent.

[ Which means that they can't just replicate a method. ]

Anyone you think I'd know?

[timelessmage]

[Not consistent… So, no point asking what makes it tick, then. Frieren hums noncommittally.

Mind's question gives her pause, as if she was reluctant to answer, but she eventually speaks up anyway.]

…Dreamer Flamme.

[If Mind's studied historical records of the first Dreamers' Awakenings, she may have come across that name among a list of the people that banded together to fight back against the encroaching threat of Torments and Nightmares fifty years ago. Oddly enough, though, that's all she might have found. Not even a Waking World name to identify her or any details about what became of her, as if Dreamer Flamme had faded into legend.]