An Inception fic for Eames' Stupid Cupid 2021!
Prompt: Flying
"Do you ever have flying dreams?" Ariadne asked over the remains of takeaway sandwiches.
Eames cut his gaze over to Arthur and watched his face go expressionless.
Tags: Dreamsharing, Yearning, Feelings, taking the first step
“Do you ever have flying dreams?” Ariadne asked over the remains of takeaway sandwiches. “I mean, I hear people do it all the time, but the last time I had a flying dream, I was a kid.”
Eames cut his gaze over to Arthur and watched his face go expressionless before he set his half-sandwich down in the center of a napkin and began wrapping it neatly.
“If you use Somnacin frequently enough, you stop dreaming naturally,” Yusuf said with a shrug. “So it’s kind of a moot point.”
Ariadne frowned. “But dreamsharing is really just induced lucid dreaming, right? We do all kinds of impossible things. Why don’t we fly everywhere in dreams?”
Arthur stood abruptly, his wrapped sandwich in his hand. “A shared dream is generally supposed to trick the mark into thinking they are in the real world.” His voice was clipped. “So it would entirely defeat the purpose to introduce such an anomaly.” He turned and strode away, disappearing through the break room door.
Ariadne stared after him. “Damn, what bug flew up his butt?”
