::In a dim room large enough to be considered a cavern by any other means since this large room was roughly the size of a small mansion minus all the walls used to build the smaller rooms. Despite the grand size of the place, our main focus is on the small figure curled up on an over stuffed chair like a large contented feline, a book open upon her lap. This young lady, for it was female lounging here, had hair like the moon's light, her skin a pale charcoal like that of shadows fighting the encroaching light, threatening to make them darker then they wanted to be. Light from a nearby candle flickered, flaring brighter and catching the lady's eyes as she glanced towards it and smiled, the silvery-blue liquid of her eyes glinting like shining mercury before being turned back to her book.
::Moments later, there came shuffling sounds from a dark corner alerting our pale young Drow (for what other race could this mysterious lady belong, with such light hair and skin near dark as night?) lounging in a nearby chair of her quickly arriving company. Swift as she could, the young lady jumps up from her comfy place and sorts her skirts into some form of order, so it does not appear as if she had been sleeping her duty by. Turning once sure she was presentable, she smiles as several people leave the shadows calming embrace and steps into the dim light of this new room they've found::
"Welcome Friends! Welcome!" she gives a polite curtsy and smiles most graciously at the new arrivals. "I bid thee welcome to the lands of Yumegokochi-Shoko" the young Drow was most pleased she did not botch the name up this time, and beamed to them all, "where a land of dreams awaits those who are brave of heart to search for them, and stern of countenance to believe what they see."
One curious woman just shy of 5'2" steps forward, leaving the small pack of people she arrived with, her wavy brown hair and shinning green eyes flickering with the candle's light as she curiously inquires, "Yumegokochi-Shoko?"
"Oh yes, wonderful name, isn't it?" our young Drow smiled, making her eyes sparkly quite a mysterious shade of silver-blue and straightened her skirts once more. "I failed to introduce myself, hadn't I? Quite rude of me!" Silvery-blue pools swirled and shifted as she giggled quietly, gaining the like in return from some of the group gathered around her. "My name is Rosin d' Halisstrad" giving another curtsy the young Drow maiden waved a slim hand in a grand gesture, including the whole of the area where the wondering group now stood.
"My duty here at Yumegokochi-Shoko is as it's protector foremost, greeter to new visitors such as yourselves, and curator." Observing the small group nodding in understanding, Rosin d' Halisstrad continued on. "Yumegokochi-Shoko by it's very name means, A Dreamy State of Mind Archive. This is where the dreams of many converge and grow with people that wonder here and read what others before have left behind; Such as you yourselves stand here in curiousness, wondering what places you shall visit within these walls, what inspiration shall it install within you? And, perhaps, if you are so inclined, what dreams of your own shall you leave behind?"
Giving a small laugh, twirling around in place, Rosin gave a bright, wide grin flinging her arms wide. "But my friends! This is not merely one new world you've stumbled into, it is but the portal into many worlds!" she cried out happily "Look around you all, see the doors to many dreams appear before you as your hearts open to the endless possibilities."
At this statement, the small group began looking around, a few people wondering off at odd directions to look closer to the walls, was there really something else there then just the darkness they were seeing now? Could dreams actually be held in such a place as this? If they were, then how? What kind were they? What sort of people visited a place like this and left a little of their dreams behind? Didn't they cherish their dreams; hold them dear and never let them go?
Rosin d' Halisstrad gave a gentle laugh as the thoughts of this one human tickled her consciousness. "Oh dear me... do you not understand small one?" For it was indeed a young girl of maybe ten summers holding onto the hand of a young man of fourteen winters, who held these thoughts. "People love their dreams, they hold them as close to their hearts as anyone can, childe. However much they love their dreams and aspire to reach them - they like the idea of leaving something behind them to challenge others to reach just as high! Something to give people new to this place, Hope, that they too, can be free to dream, and even catch those wispy clouds that seem so far away."
"ohhhh..." the little girls face lit with kindling joy as the idea started to sink in that, maybe she could find her dream here too? Could she really? Oh she could! With that in mind she gently tore her grip from that of her brother's, and raced around the massive room, discovering doors hidden by shadows, and gazed upon with bright hazel eyes, the colorful pictures that told of each new world she could enter and dream of...
...if only she believe in herself to do so...
"I believe..." the little child whispered to herself, "I really do..." but even with that belief, she was quite disappointed in her childish way, to learn that in scouring the whole of the room, there appeared only three doors she could enter! What was up with this... she whined mentally. Only three doors? Only three, how can you keep everyone's dreams in only three rooms??
"Miss. Rosin" what was the pretty lady's last name again? Would she be able to say it if she remembered? An adorably confused expression graced the young child's face for a second or three as Rosin d' Halisstrad of Yumegokochi-Shoko turned to face her; then as the little one spotted she had the older woman's attention, her face twisted into a look of disappointed agitation that only one of her young age could manage to pull off. "Miss. Rosin... there's only three doors!"
It really couldn't be helped, could it? Rosin laughed and walking over, swiftly swept the childe into her arms and spun the small one around the room, being gifted with a high pitched squealing laugh as she settled into a gentle stopping twirl. Rosin leaned in real close to the childe's face, near touch their noses, and whispered, "Kayla..."
Shocked that the lightly dark skinned lady with pretty silvery eyes knew her name, Kayla could only stare wide eyed and reply with a stumped "Huh?"
Smiling Rosin rose the arm cradling the childe's back, supporting the small childe against her body tightly with the other, as her dainty arm made a wide sweep at the three doors set across from each other in a very large triangle shaped pattern, if one but choose to look well enough to see it, and whispered, "Kayla... why are the rooms so far apart?"
"I don't know..." Kayla looked around at them in mild thought, still upset there where only three doors in such a huge room. "'Cause they're big?"
"Aye, childe... and what, do we put behind such big doors?"
Kayla only took a second to think about this one. "Big things?" her hazel eyes started to sparkle at the thought that maybe, even if there was only three measly doors... there would be really big things behind them!
Rosin nodded while smiling and motioning to the doors once more. "Either something big, yes... or a lot of little things... like, perhaps... people's dreams, no?" The little childe's eyes grew wide at this; Kayla, it appeared, had not thought of that one. Rosin continued smiling. "Three doors, to three different, and very large worlds, filled with nothing but the dreams and images of others, left behind eons ago."
"Wow..."
Rosin's eyes crinkled up at the corners, smiling at the childe's amazed tone. "Indeed, little one. Look at this door here" she pointed to one while walking near it. On it, was painted a colorful display of the moon and stars, like a whole galaxy worth of them, Kayla thought to herself, feeling her eyes go wide again, thinking that maybe, there were as many things behind this pretty door, as there were stars upon it.
The whole of the door was nothing but the blackness of space broken up by the twinkling of thousands of stars scattered here and there in large groups, some in smaller groups with a large star in the middle. Oh wonderful! And there was even bright blue places, Kayla was surprised to see and hear a man older then she, inform her curious stare ('cause how could there be color in space?) that the different shades of blue Kayla was seeing was made up by the clusters of burning stars; and the different hues of oranges she was seeing, was gas being illuminated by the light of the stars closest to the gas mass.
Letting out a puff of annoyance at the big words adults always liked to use around her, and that she herself, could not understand. Kayla wondered briefly why they just didn't enjoy the beauty around them and hush up? Twisting her face into a frown before smiling once more as her eyes focused off the odd man and on the door again, Kayla nodded to herself. It was beautiful. Blue stars big and small and lots of white stars were thrown all around the door, with smaller, big, swirly clusters she didn't know what they were, but they were orangish and pretty. The biggest part though, looked like they belonged to an orange-colored clam that was opening it's shell to show off it's very pretty, sparkly blue pearls held within it.
It was very, very pretty in Kayla's opinion; yet she cocked her head to the side in confusion at the only blemish she could see of the whole door's picture, was the words inscribed on the top and bottom of the image. Tsuki Doriimaa's Tengoku Archive - what the heck was that supposed to mean?
Seeing the look, Rosin raised her voice so it would reach them all, not just the childe she held within her arms. "Tsuki Doriimaa's Tengoku Archive quite literally means, Moon Dreamer's Heaven - also referred to as T.D.T.A for short - it is a wonderful place where you can find the dreams of people who most adored Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo, Naruto and Inuyasha, just to name a few." she winked towards the crowd and immediately moved to point at the other colorful door.
It was colorful, indeed, in as few colors as possible; it only had blues, a little purple, black and some white in it. It was very nice, almost looked like a little kid curled in on his or her self, Kayla thought while tilting her head to look upon the door. The only lettering upon the massive thing were the letters spelling out, S.O.G.O.A., in a light shade of gray that was almost easy to miss, if she had not of been staring so intently at the entrance to a world of dreams.
"S.O.G.O.A." Rosin's voice called out softly, but in the near silent room, it might as well have been a bomb explosion. "The door hiding one subject, but holding countless peoples dreams for such a thing. S.O.G.O.A. stands quite simply for Silverinty's Odd Gundams Out Archive - quite simply it is the sister site for the Gundam Wing category of dreams in T.D.T.A. Except for where the pairings in T.D.T.A.'s Gundam Wing are all Cannon pairings; those of S.O.G.O.A. or of the rarely seen variety."
"What do you mean Miss. Rosin?" Kayla inquired, squirming around to be set down.
"Oh childe, you are far too young to enter that door yet." Rosin d' Halisstrad smiled kindly and gave the young childe a push towards T.D.T.A.'s door. "Go in that one, dear childe, or the last door over yonder, you'll surely like either of those."
Nodding, the young girl decided she'd rather go in the very pretty door that simply had a picture of a very pretty bracelet with it's clasp closed, put around a coned object so it was on display for everyone to see it clearly. Oh and it was pretty! Kayla clapped her hands in child’s delight. Sparkly red stones glittered like millions of tiny stars were trapped within them, were sandwiched between (the childe giggled at this thought) two slim round green stones, then a nicely twinkling red crystal shaped like a Top.. in the center of the bracelet sat a stone larger then the others used, rectangle in shape, and made of swirling blues and greens; though Kayla could see a little grayish-white peeking out from beside it's clear crystal topped end.
"Pretty jewelry..."
Turning her head slightly at catching the whispered sentence, Rosin nodded, cutting her conversation with an older lady then she, off politely, before turning towards the small childe with a smile. "Indeed Kayla, very pretty jewelry lays within that door." Rosin eyed the simple doorway, which was incrusted with the picture of a bracelet displayed upon a black cloth covered cone; running above the etched picture were the words 'Tsuki Doriimaa's' and under the necklace itself, was curved the word 'Jewelry'. It was where Tsuki-sama kept all of her home made jewelry, the room was set up as a small shop for all that she made; Tsuki-sama hoped to make something from her endeavors, but if not, it was fun while trying to make them. The room behind the door really needed no introduction as the other two had. As far as Rosin d' Halisstrad could see and discern, she had done her job rather well, and it was time for everyone gathered therein, to go explore the doors around them.
"My friends..." gathering everyone's attention except for the lone childe that had wondered into the jewelry shop, Rosin smiled and gave a curtsey, "I have bestowed upon you all the knowledge you need to choose where to go, what dreams to follow... So please, feel free to wonder from one place to another."
Nodding, the people said a soft thank you for Rosin, and began to disperse in the direction they wished to wonder, before being stopped once more by their guide's surprised voice.
"oh! by me I did forget something!" Oh by the Goddess how dim of her to have misplaced remembering such a thing. Then again it was a new addition to the doorways, so mayhap it should not have bothered her as much as it currently was, but it was bothering all the same. Rosin d' Halisstrad was not a childe after all! She should most certainly not be forgetting things! Trying to push away the blush Rosin could feel climbing up to claim her cheeks as they're resting place, she gave a soft murmuring of an apology before motioning with one hand to a secluded spot just over her shoulders.
"I do beseech thee to forgive a young Drow maiden her folly - but I have forgotten to mention a new addition to our doors of many dreams..." pointing once more, noticing that more people were turning to listen to her, while others continued towards their chosen doorways. "This door, leads to an art gallery began by the earliest visitor to have discovered this place. Others following him come to gaze upon his beautiful workmanship; some even adding to his small collection. So please, if you've a minute to spare to see how others have faired in the ways of the drawing arts - then please enter!"
Giving a light twirl around the room's middle, Rosin told them, "If by any chance you have more questions to be answered, or perhaps just want to drop a line to the room's maker with comments or suggestions, perhaps an addition of your own arts? Or maybe you just simply wish to talk with her, feel free to send Tsuki Doriimaa-sama a letter here, and she'll be sure to write back to you just as quickly as she can!" Giving a small laugh, Rosin d' Halisstrad curtsied once more "That's all my friends, please, go have fun exploring your dreams!"
With her job done, Rosin d' Halisstrad settled back into her over stuffed, and oh so comfy chair with a book in her lap and began to read once more, quickly becoming lost in a world of her own dreams, and quite unaware of the people still choosing a dream door of their own to enter.
(At present, only SOGOA may be entered; many apologies for the delay on the other portal openings.)