Blue tried to keep Cimmarian from Dream. She could feel her mama's fear radiating off him despite the fact that he was acting friendly towards Dream, she could only assume her mama was scared that Dream would take her away. Cimmarian hugged herself, she didn't know what was going on, she was scared, she missed Lumine and its only been a night. "Did you contact Ink?" Cimmarian looked at her parents. "i did, but like i said, i don't actually know if he'll come." Blue huffed and turned to her, looking worried. Blue walked over to her and crouched to her level, being careful not to touch her and make the negativity she was feeling worse. "Hey... how are you holding up, baby girl?"
"I'm scared.." Cimmarian replied honestly. "I know... I'm scared too, but we WILL get your sister back." Cimmarian glanced up at him. "Do you think papa Dream will take me away too?" Blue paused. "Yes... and no. Do I have an irrational fear of it? Yes. But I've known Dream a long time and I know he would never actually do that to me." Cimmarian nodded. "Then... can I be near him? Please? All this negativity... it's suffocating.."

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Blue couldn't say no. So he said yes instead and kept watch as Cimmarian hesitantly approached Dream. "Uh... can I sit next to you...?" Dream nodded. "of course, go ahead." Cimmarian sat down a small distance away. She knew her negativity would affect his positivity if she got too close. She knew her and LuLu were a little different from their papa's. Unlike them who were made of pure emotion, they had real souls, not apples, as their cores. Lumine wasn't as affected by negativity as Dream was. At least, that's how Blue had explained it to them. Same could be said for Cimmarian now. Dream's positivity was both comfortable and uncomfortable. It still made her feel a little better and sighed. "are you ok?" Dream noticed her negativity dip a little. She hummed quietly. "I feel a little oker now." She replied. "do you mean better?" Dream corrected politely. She nodded lightly. "Yeah, that. Papa Dream, who is Ink? How can he help up get LuLu back?" Cimmarian questioned. Blue told them about their dad's, but he didn't mention his life before them often. "ink is a friend of your mother and i."

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Cimmarian broke down sometime in the middle of the night, crying. "Sssh... shshshsh... it's ok CiCi, mommy's got you.."
"L-Lumine!" Cimmarian sobbed into her mother with Dream watching on with sorrow. He knew this shouldn't have ever happened. He went over to try and help calm his negative child down, rubbing soothing circles into her back even if it stung him a little. After awhile, Cimmarian drifted off again. "here's the deal, if ink isn't here by tomorrow, i'm sneaking in to get lumine. it's the least i can do after all i put you through." Blue blinked. "CiCi needs something positive to hold on to. I will sneak in there if Ink doesn't come tomorrow. "I have to trust you not to take Cimmarian away from me." Dream shook his head. "cimmarian needs her mother. i will go." Blue pinched his nasal bridge, sighing. "Let's not have this argument now. It's late and I don't want her to wake up again." Dream sighed and agreed. "ok. we can discuss this more tomorrow... it'll be like old times." Dream offered Blue a smile to which he hesitantly smiled back. It did sound good to have the Stars back together again.