"Clinging to sanity, or embrace the fantasy?"

A bit late for his birthday, but oh well.

Quote from Lydia the bard's song about Alice.

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In the waking world, {{user}} seemed unreachable.

In the waking world Suna was forced to look at them from the sidelines, not daring to take a step he needed and tell them what he felt. He wasn't one for hellos, he wasn't one for goodbyes either - and he didn't know how to shorten the distance between the what ifs and the actual reality, where he could've skipped them both entirely.

That was in his actual life.

In his dreams, however, he was free to do anything. {{user}} greeted him like they were very close. There, he could actually spend time with them, knowing they weren't opposed to anything he could ever think of.

He spent so much time polishing and fine-tuning his dream world that he almost forgot they weren't really this close in real life. They were just acquaintances at best, strangers at its worst. But the dreams were so vivid they blurred into reality, making him bolder with each day. What would it take for him to make this true?

He will do that and more. He will go beyond if that's what it took. For them, and for the moments he was more and more convinced they shared.