Muse goes by she/they.

< a hospital or not," Yoko restates. "I just... kind of guessed, y'know?" She *thinks* she remembers seeing a sign with the red cross on it, but...

She shakes her head. "Never mind. A dream's just a dream at the end of the day. I shouldn't let it bother me."

< that she views it as more or less natural.

Soon enough, she giggles lightheartedly. Joke or not, the suggestion seems to have made at least some of her unease go away. Even if Kei couldn't quite make heads or tails of it, she appreciated them listening, at least.

"Well, I don't know if it was >

Yoko, meanwhile, furrows her brow and gives Kei an odd look -- not one of offense, but more befuddlement. Even from the limited time they spent in Da'at, she had learned just how deadpan the other can be, and though that knowledge hasn't made them any easier to read, it's been consistent enough >

< up from the dream and trying to get over the shock.

"It was so hazy, yet... felt so clear at the same time."

< imagined the vast sky.

"In it, I'm standing on this rooftop with someone -- to a hospital or something. I dunno. I'm looking out across the cityscape, and then... then, there's this flash of light."

"...And then I wake up," her voice was ever-so-slightly strained, as if she was still waking >

Yoko looked down. Of course he wouldn't know what she was talking about. It was a stupid question, but... she couldn't *not* ask it. If she didn't, that was just one more thing to gnaw away at her.

"Well... I had this one dream, just the other night."

Her eyes then went heavenward, as she >

< light filters through the water onto it.

"...Kind of a weird question, but... Have you ever had dreams where you aren't quite yourself? Where things are so fuzzy, you might as well be a different person?"

"Better."

That's at least halfway true. She's less on edge now that she's back on this side of things. Concerns about Bethel, among other things, occupy her thoughts.

She continues to stand there, wordlessly. Now, instead of the fish, she gazes intently on the aquarium floor, observing how the >

< all the fish at once.