Miku watches from the safety of her room, expression wracked with concern as she peers out at the terrible weather through her window.

And as she watches the snow fall, movement among the white backdrop caught her attention. Somebody was wading through it towards the building. They weren’t very tall, but they were very familiar.

Immediately, she unlatches her window and pulls it open, leaning forward to call out to the small knight.

“Ixtharion!” She yells, hoping to be heard over the howling of the wind. “Is that you?!”

“….Okay but listen, if they’re not horses then why do they look like horses? I mean, shouldn’t horses be able to have baby horses with other horse-like creatures? If a zebra and a horse mate, does that mean they’re gonna have a baby zebra horse?” Clearly, this man didn’t know anything about horses, as evidenced by the confused stare at his clone.

Another deep breath, another stare. Biker needed to sit down for a moment.

“Tigers and lions look kinda alike, right? Big cats. They’re able to reproduce but the baby is also sterile. Same with horses and horse-like creatures I guess. Maybe there’s little striped horses, I dunno. I’m not a fuckin’ scholar.”

She really needed to spend more time here too.

Curiously, Miku strides over to the fountain, watching the water flow through as eagerly as ever. Stopping by the edge, she peers down at her own reflection belowー

... That is definitely not her reflection looking back at her.

Her idle curiosity quickly turns to shock, and she reels back, watching in awe as her friend rises from the water.

“Phecda? H-How did you do that?”

It was awfully lonely, but Miku had begun to realize that their behavior seemed to correlate with the presence of somebody else. Somebody else from Hive City.

So when the phantoms began acting particularly agitated and unstable, as if reacting to the emotional air of something, the android immediately took to the hallways of the building, breaking the eerie silence with her voice.

“Hello? Is anybody there?”

Aaand here’s a Dreamscape starter ad! This is going to be uncapped, and of varying length depending on what I can cook up. I may also slide into your IMs if I wanna brainstorm about dreams and whatnot.

A little info about Miku’s dreams:

She doesn’t actually recognize that she’s dreaming. Being an android, she’s never dreamed properly before.

She is consciously aware that something is wrong though, and that she is definitely not actually back home.

Speaking of home, her dreams will (likely) take place at the HQ of Crypton, the company that created her. It’s a massive and modernized complex. Miku remembers this place the most, and therefore the entire place will appear extremely vividlyー which is a contrast to the surrounding cityscape that is blurry and out of focus.

.. Where was she?

Finding herself standing amidst the bustling city-scape, Miku found herself frozen in place, watching as the bystanders weaved past her. Faces blurred, little more than a passing memory, the android couldn’t place why theyー and the architecture around herー seemed so dauntingly familiar.