[OPEN] Oh, in dreams I have watched it spin

[northerndragon]

WHO? Jon Snow (northerndragon) & maybe you!
WHAT? Open log including dream event prompts.
WHEN? December 2017! Backdated and forward dated are very welcome.
ANYTHING ELSE? Opening summary below cut, detailed prompts in the comments.

The surface of BASE may be unfamiliar, but it doesn't take long -- a few days at most -- for Jon to begin to realize that in its bones, it's a lot like Castle Black. Everything around them speaks of a military organization with stretched resources. The little machines are like builders and stewards and maesters, and he suspects they eat much less than sworn brothers do. And he can see evidence everywhere of attempts to keep everything in good working order and to reuse anything that can be reused.

As such, in spite of those surface differences, he begins to feel more at home.

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[northerndragon]

Something about what Jon has just said strikes him as wrong, but in his dreaming state, he can't place why. Something about spirits, feasts, ghosts, what happens after you die, how dark it would be here without a torch: it's on the tip of his tongue, and then it's gone again, something he can't verbalize, something he knows and doesn't know about being dead.

"I am a blood relation. But I still have no place here, and it's me they reject. Except for him." He casts another skeptical glance at the stone direwolf, which is pallid in the torchlight, almost as if it were made of white stone rather than grey. It's padded silently closer to them. "Or they don't want me here, they want me to see the older kings, the ones who are... well, they're stories. They're down below.

"How can you be part of COST if you've died? They've remade you?"

[horsepowered]

There was a level of certainty to Jon's expressions of exclusion that Chiron found, well, sad, in truth. It wasn't the kind of thing to say outloud, but there was no doubt to him that this was not a new thing either.

His attention turned to the stone direwolf again, the word him finally smacking Chiron upside the head. It did seem obvious, didn't it? That was likely some manifestation of Jon's father.

Rather than ask for clarification on that point, he follows another instead. "Why would the emphasis be on the older kings?"

When the matter of himself comes up, Chiron's far warmer. Happier to explain.

"It has nothing to do with them," he said. "Mages back home conduct various rituals. In one, they summon spirits of heroes from myth and from history to act as champions in their stead. I was called forth to that ritual. COST intercepted me from there."