"Actually..."

she paused sighing softly looking around calmly at her dream.

"I usually like the dreams that are more simple, a meadow or a cherry blossom meadow or field... someplace calm to clear my head."

she explained as best she could looking up now to the sky.

"And most people find it creepy really that i can do this heh. usually after they try to seduce me in their dream..."

"Seduce you? Really? Uh, do they succ.. I mean.. Err, None of my buisniess! I just mean.. I can understand why someone would.. Uhm. Sorry!"
Pia blushed, cursing her own curiosity and her loose mouth. She stared awkwardly at her own shoes for a few seconds. She could quite easily see why someone would try to seduce someone like Vanessa. She was feminine, yet tall, giving her a look Pia would describe as regal. Add to this an air of mystery..
Not that Pia used to seduce anyone in her dreams, but she often dreamt of being seduced.
I better end this trail of thought before it is reflected in the dream! Pia thought to herself.

"I don't think it is creepy that you are in my dream at all!" Pia said. "In fact, I often have these troublesome dreams, especially after moving here. I feel a lot safer with you around. I don't know if its you keeping me safe, but I feel better!"

She laughed softly at Pia's little bout of awkward embarasment and speech. it was kind of cute in a way.

"Heh well If you can see it I guess I won't have to explain it."

she smirked softly before nodding.

"Why thank you... wait these odd dreams don't tell me they have monsters in them... raping you?"

Pia stared at Vanessa for a few seconds, mouth agape.
"How.. how did you know that?".

Pia had experienced several encounters with the monsters of the island after coming to Shokushu. Some of these had used their powers on her brain as well as her body, wiping her memories or made her unable to talk about it. During her sleep, these memories often stirred.
Even mentioning them where enough to make them resurface.

The dream shifted in response. The music disappeared, but faint grunts and groans could be heard. Faint shapes could be seen, details unclear but obviously threatening.

Pia took a step closer to Vanessa, subconsciously seeking the protection of the stronger woman.
"I dream of it often. Sometimes several times each night", she confessed.

She looked and listened to the dream sighing to herself gently. It was a horrible memory for her as well... that one time she had been raped as her avatar. She took a deep breath brushing her clothing off a little.

"I'm afraid you won't like what I say Pia..."

she told her eyes wandering around as she pulled her a deal closer to herself. She took a breath as Pia was now pressed against her side.

"They weren't dreams Pia... I wander the dreams of inhumans as well... many are here... and... and they trap students..."

I pause a tear falling.

"And they rape us... not all of the students... the school keeps it limited to about ten percent of the student body... and once we're raped once... it makes us free game."

Pia shuddered. Her fear and anxiety reflected upon the dream, and the temperature dropped a degree or two.
"I-I.. Kinda knew that.. really. I mean, I did not want to believe, but.. Something just can't be just the product of the mind. Some things are just too physical.."

And so we are marked. Once one gets us, the others might flock in just to get a piece. We're screwed, are we not?

And it seemed that they had managed to get to this woman as well. It seemed unthinkable. She was tall, regal, seemed so.. strong. Yet they had gotten to her as well.

"I am so sorry!" Pia burst out.

She offered a subtle yet noticable shrug to the woman then just smiled.

"It's alright Pia, it's a difficult subjectyou're lucky though... you get to escape... I never do... some of them find me even in the dreams of others. You have no idea how painful it can be to have your dream self raped... you never will though since you can't feel what I feel as a dream walker... you're lucky..."

She sighed now wiping the tears off her cheek.

"If you want you can go and we can talk more in the morning Maybe meet in my dorm, it's been pretty empty lately... I miss the company."

the memories of bring raped in the dreams forced her avatar's garments to change, the ripped tatered miko outfit her bra torn in half panties obviously absent leaving her nippes and pussy on display for pia for a few moments before she straightened up and let the well formed ones return to her body.

"sorry about that... lost focus for a moment."

Pia eyes were wide with horror. She recognized that look. The ripped up, disheveled clothing, being on display, being exposed. She knew that look from herself.

"So, they can do this even in dreams? Is nowhere safe?", Pia said. "You don't have to answer that.. I don't need to pry."

"So, room.. 300? If I remember when I wake up, I will drop by.", Pia said earnestly.

She lowered her head patting Pia on the shoulder softly.

"Good hun, hope you won't be frightened when you meet me, I can be a little more foreboding in reality than in the dreamscape. I'm who I want to be here, out there I'm stuck as who I am."

she decided smiling happily brushing her lap a little as she leaned over and kissed Pia softly before pulling away and opening a door that appeared out of nowhere.

"Now no following, it gets dangerous for people not like me."

she pulled on a string and pia would feel it tugging at her entire being.
"You can tear that if you move too far from here."

"Yikes!", Pia yelled. "Wow.. that was.. weird!"

Vanessa had just pulled at somthing, some kind of thread or chord maybe, and Pia had felt it in her entire being. Pia had read about astral projecions and near death experiences. Several mentioned some sort of silver chord. Was this it?

"Right! No following. I see..", she said, her curiosity once again peaked. "So I could follow you, but I'd risk breaking it.. Got it! I'll be good and stay here. What would happen if.."
Pia cut herself short.
"I guess I can ask these questions tomorrow, right? I must admit, I am kind of curious about all of this."

"Permanent coma."

she offered in answer to Pia assuming she was going to ask what would happen if it did break she shrugged slightly standing outside the door now eyes wandering her dream.

"Well anyway, sleep well Pia, see you in the waking world..."Hope you aren't surprised how I look in the waking world.

she thought after offering the kind good bye letting the door vanish from pia's dream along with herself.

"Okay.. permanent coma.. Better not risk that.."

Vanessa dissappeared into the door just as Pia said goodbye. The door vanished along with Pia's guest. She had to admit she had wanted to follow her. While Vanessa did not seem to enjoy her special talent very much, Pia was undeniably curious about it.
Even if she was known to let curiousity get the better of her, Pia was not quite the proverbial cat. If she relly met Vanessa later, she might tell more about it.

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Pia started out the next day feeling exited about the prospect of meeting Vanessa in the flesh. As the day went on, her exitement gradually gave way to her normal anxiety.
What if I just dreamed it all? What if I knock on the door, and someone else answers?
Still it would be rude not to keep the appointement. It was a very nervous Pia that knocked on the door of room 300.

The person that answered the door did certainly look different from the Avatar Pia had seen,. a bit taller, hair shorter and lighter colored, bust... larger... a deal larger... and of course she had answered the door in a sheer black shirt and black boy short cut panties. the golden eyes were the only thing that remained concretely the same.

"Question one blond girl. are you here because your had a dream and I invited you, do you want to know if the ex-pornstar I dorm with is showering, or do you want to see if the demon of Dallas is back to her old tricks. if the answer is one you can come in, the answers to question two and thre are, hell if i'm going to tell you and never in a million years am I going to be that slut again... apologize in advance for snapping..."
she sounded a bit... tired and the bags under her eyes showed it; the lack of safety in her meditation had made things uncomfortable last night after she had left Pia's dream, n attack had left her nursing her mind.

Pia practically leaped one step back in reaction to the verbal onslaught.

Yup! It was definitely a bad idea coming here!

"Uh..err.. øh.. demon? Pornstar? Slut? Uhm.. Dallas?", Pia babbled, trying to come up with a decent reply.

"Well.. I guess it is the first, the one with the dream.. But never mind. I see I came at a bad time. Sorry!"

Pia's face was red from embarassment. What had she been thinking, barging in on someone because of a dream? She had no idea what the rest of what Vanessa was talking about was, but she felt like she maybe was supposed to.

Smiling apologetically, she stepped backwards once more. "No problem about the snapping. My fault really.. I will leave then. My appologies for the intrusion."

Okay, here is the plan. Make my leave, and then curl up and try not to feel like an idiot.

She swallowed a bit hard looking at pia shaking her head a little.
"Pia it's alright come in! Didn't really expect your dream self and you to look so much alike! please come in!"

She pleaded to the girl embarrassed that she had been so snippy to her own guest.

" As I said, this room is infamous... Really no reason to leave... was a bad night after I left your dream that's all wasn't im much a mood trying to deal with people wanting to meet kitty. seems they put all the students with sordid sexual pasts in the same room..."

she explained moving out of her door way and ushering Pia in.

"just PLEASE don't leave! I want one guest that doesn't want to try and get me to rip their clothes off..."
she looked like she was begging right now.