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[evidentiary]

...What is it.

[ NOW SHE'S WORRIED. ]

[thesettingsun]

[For a moment he considers not saying, in case that makes it more real, but he wouldn't feel right withholding that information when she's in this mess with him.]

Drowning.

[evidentiary]

...We don't have to put up with that, I shouldn't think. Let's swim to shore - steady.

[thesettingsun]

I don't know if you can just dismiss it...

[Is the water level raising? It's the ocean, and sure, global warming, but it shouldn't be noticeably raising this quickly.]

[evidentiary]

[ wELP ]

- we may want to lose our shoes and anything else that makes it hard to tread water.

[thesettingsun]

You don't have to tell me twice!

[At least they're only dream shoes, and not even dream Gucci or something. Shuji unlaces his shoes as quickly as is humanly possible and lets them float away. Bye.]

[evidentiary]

[ and there go kyouko's boots and jacket! it was getting heavy. ]

How does this dream usually end?

[thesettingsun]

I wake up after the water starts filling up my lungs.

[That's a reassuring answer... But it's the true answer, what else is he supposed to say?]

[evidentiary]

...Let's try to find a different way. Perhaps we can get out of this and into yet another dream?

[thesettingsun]

What are the odds we're going to run into - swim into a dream that isn't a nightmare?

[It's looking pretty doubtful to him right now.]

[evidentiary]

Slim to none. But we can keep rotating until we find something we can defeat!

[ apparently she isn't into drowning? ]

[thesettingsun]

[That's fair.]

It's better than staying here. Which direction?

[Since if there was sight of land, or anything but more ocean, it wouldn't be much of a nightmare about inevitable drowning...]

[evidentiary]

This way. And...think land-ish thoughts, I suppose.

[ she just picks a direction and starts swimming? ]

[thesettingsun]

[the hell are land-ish thoughts

Shuji follows after her, trying to come up with something that will make land suddenly appear. She can hear him mumbling to himself.]

Continents... Coastline... Rocks... Bigger rocks...

[evidentiary]

Trees, reefs, a beach -

[ she's helping. ]

Palm trees.

[thesettingsun]

Dirt. Grass. Pebbles that get stuck in your shoe.

[Is this working?]

[evidentiary]

[ IT SORT OF IS. there are now...

sharks made up of dirt. ]

[thesettingsun]

...If teeth are made of dirt, that means they aren't sharp, right?

[Shuji does not sound nearly as calm as he would like to.

Just keep swimming... Just keep swimming...]

[evidentiary]

Rocks might hurt, though -

[ LET'S KEEP SWIMMING TO HOPEFULLY SOMETHING LESS DUMB or one of them is bound to wake up sometime, okay, ]

[thesettingsun]

[SWIMMING TO MORE SENSIBLE NIGHTMARES]

Grass. No one has ever been hurt by grass, unless they're allergic or something, I don't know your life.

[evidentiary]

I'm not allergic!

[ SO OKAY LET'S THINK ABOUT GRASS -

although if one of those sharks bites one of them, they might wake up ]

[thesettingsun]

[do you really want to get bitten for this theory]

Grass. Tall grass. Grass that contains absolutely no sharks.

[evidentiary]

[ WELL MAYBE SHE DOESN'T WANT TO but it's the 3rd and a new event log goes up in like an hour and twenty or so SO IN THAT CASE...

kyouko gets bitten and we can say they wake up??? grass sharks??? ]