Once Upon a Reprise

What would happen if you could dream the same dream? What happens in those perfect fantasies you'd never even wish for awake? Where do they lead when they are released and left to unfold?

Notes:

Yeah, so, you should only be here if you came directly from The Luminous Things, end of chapter 36. If you didn't, go away. Thank you.

So, this was originally supposed to be just a dream inside the main fic, but... me being me happened. I was watching Into The Woods again, and realised how much potential I had left unused. So, as I was going to merge Kuroko's and Kagami's dreams from earlier in the series in some way anyway, for plot reasons, I was like... HEY a verse fic would be rad af.

Don't worry, it's not ALL verse. That didn't fit the flow of the story in the end, and I ended up utilizing different styles more freely and mixing verse and prose. This was just the right stage to explore techniques.

Chapter 1: Reprise

Chapter Text

Once upon a dream
not quite the dream it would seem
in a far off land
were to land hand in hand
a fair maiden and
a young lad

Two hands a zipper binding dreams of slipper
gold, towers, nightmare of nothing
of wolves and witches from the land which is

two fabrics as one
all fibres mixed one begins the fun
in a nearby land
where to land as you stand
draws fair game and
maiden, lad

And should our reprise take you by surprise
cold hours might scare off the thing
that hunts you bare teeth from air for wreath

Once upon a reprise you’ll find your blind mind left behind
in a kind of vow twined cow and its price
so bow clockwise
avow

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