The Dreaming

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They are weary from fighting -- from defending all creation from horror -- but Fate needs them now to push a little further. He has them stand in a circle, and borrows strength as he pushes his mind out one more time, spreading his very consciousnesses to the far corners of reality.

He rises into the air above them, energy swirling into a tornado around him.

"Lord Shaper Dream he says. "You who are in one aspect my son, Daniel Hall. I beseech of you, lend me the power and strength of your realm for our work, for it is in Dreams that reality is defined!"

And now both the land and air are quaking. Fate ignores it, pushes his mind toward Earth.

"I call on three, whose legends define the soul of our world, three bound together by heroism and the bonds of the Justice League of America" -- and in that moment, Fate recall the warnings the Phantom Stranger gave Wonder Woman, and prays the bond between them has been reignited enough for this to work.

"I call you by the names that propel your legends -- Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman -- I bid you dream! Dream of the world as it was, of its people and planets, all where they should be. By the sacred oaths you three swore to protect your world, I call on you now!"

Fate is nearly horse and exhausted, but there's still more to go. Gently, he takes all the energy the Titans below him can spare, and pushes further. He knows the Magus suggested himself for the 4th, but that makes little sense -- he does NOT see the world as it is. He sees much more than that. Sometimes too much. And then it hits him -- one of their time and reality, who sees the world as it is, whom has been in this since the beginning.

"I call on you, Detective Chimp, by the compact you swore to me on Earth, bring your deduction and insight into this new world, help me reconnect it to man and nature."

One more -- the hardest of them all. A germ of new facets of reality is forming, swirling around them. This aspect of the Dreaming becomes a place of madness, and that suits his purposes just fine.

"Lady Delirium," says Fate, as respectfully as he can muster. "By my bonds to your brother, I call on you, you who define reason by your very existence, to lend us your will and power in recreating the lost portions of our world."

And his pleas fall out to the universe -- to the Endless to aid him, and to the mortals to simply dream -- and from there, a multiverse will be repaired.

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[mari-grayson.livejournal.com]

Nightstar knows it is logical and reasonable to conserve her strength, to rest and recover.

But she's never been very good at being logical or reasonable. So she offers all she has left to Dr. Fate, holding nothing back for herself.

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And suddenly, Dream is there. His hand closes warmly on Mar'i's shoulder.
Do not fear, Mar'i Grayson, you have all the strength in the Dreaming at your disposal.

he addresses Fate
Dream your dreams. I will see them through.

[doctorfatejsa.livejournal.com]

With a nod to the Dream King, Fate guides the dreams of heroes to the holes Croutex's rampage tore in reality, slowly knitting them together again. The work is difficult, and yet he's overcome by a sense of well-being, of healing.

[amazon-diana.livejournal.com]

Diana heard his call, more attuned than most to the mystic world without precisely being a part of it. She dreams as he asks and through her is the strength of all the amazons and her Lady Athena as well.

[onthecase.livejournal.com]

The chimp focuses his thoughts on the logical flow of reality -- how reality works. And he thinks in the language of reality itself -- not a language he has ever spoken before, nor does he think he will ever be able to do it again, but here, dreaming, he suddenly knows the language intimately well.

And he speaks the words of reality to help fix the damaged worlds.

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

...and in his garden, Destiny turns a corner and finds that he is alone and singular. He reads from his book, which reafirms this fact, and then moves on down his hedge-maze path.

[tefe-holland.livejournal.com]

It feels like the calm after a rain when the air is clean and the clouds move away. Some storm has passed and Tefe smiles and flowers grow wherever her feet touch the earth as she walks.

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

In a California hospital, Zauriel stands vigil beside the bed of a teenage girl who attempted suicide under the direction, and breathes a sigh of relief as he feels its influence fading.

He opens his over mind, his angel mind, and reads of the Book of the World, and sees the words have been changed. How, he knows not, but for the first time inmonths, he looks forward again to what the world will bring.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_man_of_steel_/]

He lies in bed. Lois is at his side, sleeping, smiling. He has seen and been through much in the past couple of months. But the events of Silent Hill had been somewhat of a catharsis for the Man of Steel, and so he sleeps, and he dreams. He dreams of promise and the hope of a new day.