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Sweet Dreams

"Limbic demons! Fucking limbic demons, I should have known. No wonder she hates closing her eyes at night," Hoseok huffs in disgust. "Thank you for getting her home safely." It's impossible to shake his anger, even with the view of you peacefully tucked into bed and knowing you're finally safe from your 'friends.' He slams an open palm against the lip of the oculus making the image ripple before settling again. "Do I even need to guess whose realm they came from?"

Taehyung reclines against the wall, ankles crossed to mirror his arms over his chest. "They smelled like Hypnos' realm but also had an underlying scent of the Dreamscape."

"It could be they're floaters, split between the two. I've never seen them here nor sensed their power signatures before. Didn't Hypnos steal some of your father's dreamers when he last tried to rebel?" Jimin asks.

Hoseok sighs. "He did. Father thought they were all so insignificant they'd be a wash for power, no issues. Seems Hypnos had something up his sleeve anyway. Hypnos never has been comfortable with his own power, being the God of Sleep you'd think he'd be more sloth-like and not always stirring up trouble. Then again, Father is a bit of a power-hungry asshole, too, so maybe it runs in the family. Like father, like son, I guess."

"That still doesn't explain why he'd be trying to fuck with the oblation, though. What's in it for him on that front?" Jungkook muses. He peers into the oculus, admiring the scene of you sprawled out on your bed. Having driven off the sleep demons, you're enjoying your first night of peaceful sleep in over a year. It's about to get even better, as soon as you enter your REM cycle, you're in for a pleasant surprise.

"Well, The Rite gives the receiver power. Maybe Hypnos is trying to screw with it so we don't gain power. If the oblation gets damaged, they won't be any good for us to bond with. The Rite gives us a life-long companion, someone we bond with and draw power from. That's the only thing that seems reasonable. That, or Hypnos is just wanting to fuck with Father; therefore, fucking with us." Hoseok throws up his hands in frustration. "My brothers need to hear about this. There isn't much time left before we need to begin. We might be competing against one another, but they're still my brothers and if someone is trying to fuck with us then we'll stand together."

It only takes a few moments for Hoseok to reach out to his brothers. Three figures pop into existence on the observatory balcony in a swirl of grey. "What's so urgent?" Yoongi asks, dusting off his pants. Clouds of dream ash puff off of the fabric and drift down to the stone beneath his feet. "I was in the middle of redrafting the eastern bloom quadrant."

"A better question is what the fuck are they doing here?" Seokjin gestures dramatically to the three quasi-deities now standing off to the side. Their nonchalance has Seokjin grinding his molars. "Last I checked, this place was forbidden to their kind."

"Shove it up your ass, Seokjin." Jimin rolls his eyes, leaning back against the wall next to Taehyung.

Namjoon steps forward and tosses a glare Jimin's way. "Don't get him started, please." He turns back to the brother that's supposed to be initiating his dream-walk but is instead calling family meetings. "What is it, Hoseok, why have you called us here? I thought we agreed you'd go first and then Yoongi would follow and so on."

"I had the guys do a little reconnaissance for me, just to get a read on the oblation. Information we can't discern using the oculus. She's been plagued with night terrors and insomnia for as long as I've been watching over her. As the sentinel, it's been my duty to protect her mind and I've done everything in my arsenal, I just thought it was simply bad luck or something. Turns out, the two fiends that have been hanging around her are actually limbic demons."

His brothers all curse simultaneously. "Impossible. Surely they're not from here, we would have recognized them or been able to decipher their power. It must be something else," Yoongi states as he approaches the oculus and takes in your sleeping form.