"Don't worry, I keep my promises. Right over here," Yvonne told Heaven, turning around completely with her dress flowing around her. She led the mage a few steps towards the little pool that now glowed and knelt down next to it.
"Yeah. Of course I'm not tired- I mean, you do know, I have to sleep a lot just to move around and do things normally in the real world," she said with a sheepish chuckle and motioned for Heaven to sit next to her, though that's up to the other. "So, does that tell you what's going on? A place in which I'm not tired, and isn't real. That's what 'here' is."


The insides of the houses are identical everywhere Jenny looks. Square insides with a few tables, chairs, and a fireplace. There may be more details that can't be seen with just a passing glance.
On the outside the buildings have a bit more variation. Some have flowerbeds outside, others have little chicken pens. The sound of clucking and chirping can be heard even though the pens are empty themselves. Not a trace of anything living being in them at some point, either. No feathers or tracks. Deserted, just like the rest of the village.
By progressing into the village, Jenny and Lianhuan can now get a clearer look of the structure in the center.


Lianhuan #2 can feel that the fields aren't as welcoming as they were when he first turned to the side. Now there isn't any path left to follow, which means he has to push the stalks aside to step through. The starry sky continues to shine down on him and all the visitors. Is it an illusion that the star clusters are all moving together?
It's an effect similar to the way the night sky appears to move at night thanks to the earth's rotation, but much faster. Not enough to be easily perceptible though.

((Bro I thought I responded to this ))

Heaven hesitates for a bit, thinking on the subject before placing out a guess, "Is this place... some sort of location that you often frequent? A mental domain of sorts?"

(Bumping this since I accidentally buried it with my own thread lol, sorry)

"Do you think we're hearing chicken ghosts, Jenny?" asks Lianhuan. He reaches out as if to try to touch a nearby building, though of course he can't actually reach, and draws some vague circle-like shapes with his hand. "Maybe the Clocktower got built on top of where they lived and now they're haunting us for taking their home."
...what.

His copy is probably trying his best to see if there's any boundary or further sign of civilization beyond the designated path. Well, at least he's doing something, kind of.

"Wouldn't it? Though I guess we'd have to ask the ghosts if they consider themselves something. That seems to vary from place to place." Lianhuan doesn't seem bothered by her laughter; if anything, it's the opposite. Still, he has a more serious look than usual. 
"What do you think happened to the residents then?" he continues to ask, maybe to keep the silence down and hidden away.

((As a heads up, the purpose of this thread is to be a canon infodump about Yvonne which is why I'm waiting for Jenny and Lianhuan before explaning too much. So feel free to save all your questions till then :D and I'll do my best to answer through Yvonne.))


"Yeah, I fell asleep in the library... I guess you could say this dream is kind of my domain like you said? I'm sorry my dreams aren't normal," she sighed, truly having a hint of remorse in her tone. "But to you, everything here is real, even you. It's just the place doesn't make much sense since it's a dream and all. A lot of things mix together."
Yvonne took her hand out of the water and ran it over the surface. The pool inmediately ceased all movement. Its surface, now clear and glasslike, showed the image of the wheat fields that surrounded the village. It could be compared to someone using a crystal ball to see something far away.

The chicken noises grow fainter and disappear the further Jenny and Lianhuan get from the pens. Then the area is back to silence like before.

Lianhuan's copy finds that the wheat has become stubborn, not yielding easilly to his movements. In fact, it doesn't even feel like wheat anymore. The texture is almost... plastic. The fields look faker and faker as he goes on.
Despite the fact that the yellow seems to stretch infinitely into the horizon, these definitely can't be called wheat fields anymore.

Jenny's expression faded to a more serious one. "I'm not sure." she said finally. "It almost seems like there were never people here in the first place. It feels like I'm walking through a model of a town, not a real one."

"This should let us see anything inside this dream. Right now we want to see if there's anyone else inside, so that's just what we'll do here."
After Yvonne stopped speaking, the water rippled a bit as its image sped through the field's paths and neared the village. The librarian stared at it in full concentration until the surface stabilized again. Now, it showed Jenny and Lianhuan from a bird's eye view, a sight that Yvonne blinked at and didn't let the image vanish.
"What are they doing here too? Aren't those...?"

Both Jenny and Lianhuan have the feeling of being observed from somewhere around. They can't quite tell where, though. This might be creepy, but if they blink or close their eyelids, they'll be able to see a pair of very familiar, starry purple eyes in the back of their minds.
Yvonne is watching them.
How close to the center are they?

Lianhuan, unhelpfully, stops blinking as a response. Though he doesn't say anything, probably assuming that it's yet another weird sound that he should be paying attention to.

Jenny closed her eyes carefully, opening them with a start when she saw Yvonne's eyes. "Close your eyes," she told Lianhuan urgently. "Do you see them too?"

"It looks like it." Jenny frowned. "Does that mean she's making all this?"

"Stable? As in, not easily destroyed?" Yvonne shrugged slightly at the question, voice somewhat surprised. "It should be. Until I wake up, at least, and heaven kno- ahem, who knows when that will be?"
She waved her hand over the pool once again, and the image continued speeding around the roads that ran through the village. "We'll wait for Jenny and Lianhuan right here. The way they're headed  I'll just tell my guardian to not confront them. Alright, let's check over here..." 
The water shows the empty village and then zeroes in onto Lianhuan #2 all the way in the fields. Yvonne just rubs her eyes hard at what she's seeing.

And just like that, Lianhuan and Jenny aren't being watched anymore! They're almost to the very center, too, being able to clearly see a pair of sanded glass doors that lead into the large structure. Some designs are engraved into it for decoration.

Jenny raised her broom, ready for an attack, though she wasn't really expecting one if this was really Yvonne's dream-turned-reality. "Seems she wants us to go there," she said.

Thanks to Yvonne's concentration wavering by her trying to make sense of what Heaven had said, the glassy water bubbled and returned to its original pond state.
"I'm- did you just-" was all the librarian could manage as she shook her head in disbelief. She had just seen two Lianhuans and heard Heaven of all people asking if she could continue sleeping. 
"The, ah, sleeping more, you said? Not sure if I heard correctly, but here, it'd be the opposite. I want to wake up so you can continue going about your day. Definitely wasn't in any of your plans to get trapped inside a dream world, no?" She sighed, glancing back at the empty water pool. "The best I can do is explain the situation to the others so they don't feel, ah, I don't know, attacked?"

The doors open inwards as soon as either of the two explorers get near! Despite their being (apparently) made of glass, the doors squeak and grate as if the gate to a castle were being dragged open.
From the outside, the view of the inner part of the structure is shrouded in mist. There's a sound of something like falling water, perhaps a tiny cascade judging by the noise. 

In what might be a funny feeling, the patch of field Lianhuan #2 turned to suddenly stopped being tangible. The wheat is still clearly visible, but it doesn't exist. No trace of texture or volume or even sound at being interacted with. Feels like an image was projected into real life. It's very different from the plasticky wheat he just left behind, too.

WIth a glance at Lianhuan, Jenny walked through the door and inside the building.