A few hours later Ebony was now dressed in a blue sweater with a pink heart on it and a green skirt, which didn't match at all. Ebony didn't really like what she was wearing but she didn't say anything. It was way too hot out for sweaters. Besides, it was just until she can manage to buy some clothes.
"So we should figure out sleeping arrangements." Dipper said then he took a sip of water, they all sat at the kitchen table, Stan was watching tv and Ebony has yet to run into Ford yet.
"We could make her a fluffy pallet on the floor!" Mabel suggested, Ebony nodded.
"That sounds fine!" Ebony said, she was a little nervous to go to sleep. One reason was she had never been to sleep before. Two, was she could run into her father. Three, the reason she never slept before was because Bill didn't want her to learn how to use the dream world to her advantage. That and she never needed to sleep in the dimension her father kept her in. now this was the real world, meaning her human side would get tired and need sleep.
"Are you sure that's fine?" Dipper asked, Ebony nodded.
Once they got upstairs they gathered up some blankets and started to make a pallet in-between Dipper and Mabel's beds. They shut off the lights and gat settled down. Ebony awkwardly laid herself down and covered up. She didn't really know how to sleep, in the books she read said all she had to do was close her eyes. Her eyes shut and she lay still for about 30 seconds before turning on her side. She kept turning for about 5 minutes before Dipper finally sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Having trouble getting to sleep?" he asked, Ebony nodded.
"How do you get to sleep?" she asked, Dipper thought for a little bit and grabbed a book off the shelf.
"Sometimes when I'm having trouble I read a book to wind down." Dipper suggested and handed her a book. She took it and looked at the cover, it was something she hasn't read! It was so rare to find a book the she hasn't seen due to Bill running into a lot of books in his immortal life time.
"What is this about?"
"It's a mystery novel. My sister calls me geeky because I read stuff like this." He explained, no wonder she hasn't read that one, Bill frowned upon the nerdy genre, as he calls it.
"Thanks but umm, wouldn't this keep me up?" she asked, Dipper shrugged.
"Reading always made me tired. After a while your eyes will start to burn and that's when you put the book down and go to bed. Anyways, I'm tired, don't stay up to late." Dipper said and rested his head into his pillow. Ebony opened the book and began reading.
"Hey kiddo!" Ebony herd and it was very easy to tell who's voice it was.
"D-Dad?" she asked, she couldn't see a thing. She kept looking around till her eyes came upon her dad.
"Welcome to your dreamscape! I guess I should start teaching you somethings." Bill said, he had to get her ready! She can't use that magic against him now because if she does he could easily take away her freedom. Before she could have used it to rebel because she had nothing to lose. It was perfect!
"Teach me what?" she asked, Bill had to smile at her ignorance.
"Everything! Magic! All of it! It's in your blood so it shouldn't be too hard." Bill explained.
"R-really?" she asked, Bill nodded.
"What I'm about to teach you will make what you know seem like cheap parlor tricks." Bill walked around her trying to gain her interest. She was more than interested.
"First order of business! In the dreamscape you can bend it to you own will! Anything your little heart could possibly desire! There are no limits!" Bill shouted cheerfully. He diverted his attention to the teen standing in the middle of the darkness.
"So, is it like lucid dreaming sort of?" she asked, Bill scoffed.
"Lucid dreaming has some limits. You can't have other people in a lucid dream because you would have to control everything! Here you can create people with minds of their owns if you want! Now stop trying to comprehend the dreamscape and just think of what you want!" he shouted, Ebony thought for a little bit.
"I don't know what I want!" Ebony said, Bill was just about done with the kid.
"Really? You can have anything! Even a feast fit for a king, as I said limitless. You have to have some kind of wish!" Bill waited, Ebony thought some more.
"Well the only wish I had ever really had was freedom. Now that I have it I couldn't possibly want anything else." She answered the sweetness in her voice made Bill cringe and want to hug her at the same time. It was weird how she could make him feel things.
"Just think of anything! I'm starting to regret coming here!" Bill urged, Ebony looked around.
"Well I kind of wish it was a little lighter." She said, and on que her surrounding started to turn white. She looked so amazed by this. Bill smiled at how adorable she was. She was so amazed by such a simple thing.
"That's a start, don't you think this place is a little plane?" he asked, Ebony nodded.
"Anything I want." She uttered and started to walk around. A flowery field appeared under their feet. Trees sprouted along with rivers and rocks. A sun was placed at the end of a field. You could feel wind move the hair on your arms and smell the moist dirt. It was so calm, Ebony fell back into a bed of flowers.
"Now was that so hard?" Bill asked then took a look around as animals started to appear. He looked down at his daughter and finally noticed her attire.
"What are you wearing?" he asked, she started to chuckle.
"Mabel made it for me, she said that I couldn't go walking around in torn up rags." She smiled, Bill took a seat on the ground.
"You poor thing, having to wear that… next lesson!" he shouted excitedly, Ebony sat up.
"Already?" she asked, Bill nodded and helped her up.
"This works in the real world to. We are going to work on your clothes." He spoke.
"How do you do that?" she asked, Bill took off his jacket.
"Looks like I need a new jacket! First I think of what I want, you must think of details! Like what fabric, the length and even how it fits on you." Suddenly a jacket appeared in his hands. He slid it on and waited for her to make her own clothing.
"What should I wear?" she thought out loud, Bill face palmed.
"You know what; haw about for now you make a pretty dress." He suggested, she nodded and thought for a really long time before a black dress appeared in her hands. Once she put it on you could tell she put a lot of thought into it. It was black silk that ended at her knees and had a yellow bow tied around her waist along with a bow tied in her hair. It had spaghetti straps and it showed a bit of her back through netting.
"Did I do it right?" she asked, Bill looked at the fabric and smiled.
"Yes, now when you do this in the real world it might exhaust you a little bit, so just be careful." He asked, she agreed and started to feel dizzy. Her surroundings started to get fuzzy.
"What's happening?" she asked struggling to stand up.
"You're waking up, oh before you go. How do you like the twins? Are they treating you well?" he asked, she smiled at the thought of them.
"Very well, they are so nice." She said softly before she opened her eyes to Mabel shaking her awake.
"Time to get up!" Mabel shouted in her ear, Ebony groaned.
"See what I have to go through?" Dipper said flipping through pages of a very filmier book.
"What's that book?" she asked, Dipper hid the book behind his back.
"It's nothing!" he shouted, this made Ebony alert. He was hiding things! She wants him to trust her! Now that she thinks about it that book was about monsters in Gravity Falls. It's been a while since she read it so she just kind of forgot what it was about.
"I know you just met me but you can trust me." She said but didn't push too much into it. She got up and went down stairs with Mabel as Dipper hung out upstairs.
Me: something that would really help me out is some suggestions.
Dipper: this isn't that bad actually.
Me: enjoy this while it last.