[ The voice cuts the silence like a knife. Alberto wheels round to see where it came from, startled to see Li Lianhua from a distance. He runs toward him with soundless footsteps, but it feels like running through sand within the nothingness, and somehow, he's there rather suddenly, for how far he'd been. Dream physics making this place all the more surreal and disorienting...
He's not fully aware he's dreaming. Maybe he's a slight sense, but not enough to call it quite a lucid dream. For all he knows, there's no magical, mystical connection happening here, allowing a visitor into his subconscious by chance. He may as well be dreaming of this guy he knows, plain and simple. But it's not like he's exactly thrilled to see Li Lianhua, of all people, in any case. Their last interaction left Alberto feeling inexplicably sour, in a way he's not really given much thought to — so the feeling's just hung ever since. And it's those sorts of feelings that really hang heavy most in dreams, after all, isn't it? He doesn't hide the confusion and hesitation on his face, surprised to see him at all, but— uncertain, even beyond that. Yet for all Alberto's panic about being alone just a moment ago, and for all his relief now that he's not alone, the first words out of his mouth still come out a little too... ]
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He's not fully aware he's dreaming. Maybe he's a slight sense, but not enough to call it quite a lucid dream. For all he knows, there's no magical, mystical connection happening here, allowing a visitor into his subconscious by chance. He may as well be dreaming of this guy he knows, plain and simple. But it's not like he's exactly thrilled to see Li Lianhua, of all people, in any case. Their last interaction left Alberto feeling inexplicably sour, in a way he's not really given much thought to — so the feeling's just hung ever since. And it's those sorts of feelings that really hang heavy most in dreams, after all, isn't it? He doesn't hide the confusion and hesitation on his face, surprised to see him at all, but— uncertain, even beyond that. Yet for all Alberto's panic about being alone just a moment ago, and for all his relief now that he's not alone, the first words out of his mouth still come out a little too... ]
What are you doing here?
[ ...pointed. ]