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snowblindrpg2016-04-18 04:45 pm
heavensreader) wrote in snowblindrpg2016-04-18 04:45 pm
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[network] @hsiaoke; video; Day 107, evening [locked to Quark, Frisk, Jim]
[Kesara is sitting, looking closely at the tablet as she speaks. Alert, serious, but perhaps a little too eager to hide it well.]
Listen, you three. I've been thinking.
[Already a dangerous start.]
We ought to do more around here. Being young doesn't mean we can't - really it means that we can do things that others can't. I was at the school last week, see, and a ghost gave me an SD card. Here, look, I'll show you what was on it. Show them, Alexander.
[She sends over an audio recording.]
There. And I've been thinking, perhaps it gave it to me because I'm a child, and it was a school ghost. So we all ought to go there again and see if it would come do us a cant. Together, maybe. In cahoots. [She briefly chews on her lower lip, thinking.] And there are the vents, too, and maybe other places that only we can fit. We need to think about this. Ought to pull our weight.
Listen, you three. I've been thinking.
[Already a dangerous start.]
We ought to do more around here. Being young doesn't mean we can't - really it means that we can do things that others can't. I was at the school last week, see, and a ghost gave me an SD card. Here, look, I'll show you what was on it. Show them, Alexander.
[She sends over an audio recording.]
There. And I've been thinking, perhaps it gave it to me because I'm a child, and it was a school ghost. So we all ought to go there again and see if it would come do us a cant. Together, maybe. In cahoots. [She briefly chews on her lower lip, thinking.] And there are the vents, too, and maybe other places that only we can fit. We need to think about this. Ought to pull our weight.
@jphawkins, text - still probably in slow butt land for a while yet
That's probably why he's replying in text, in fact: to keep things quiet. ]
Something else happened to me in the school, the day after me and Quark were there together. I put my tablet into Samantha Stevens' desk like the video on the public data app and the room got really cold. Think she's the same as your ghost girl and the one in the video? It might help to - call her by name, or something.
[ He can't believe he's seriously talking about this, but: ]
That usually helps in ghost stories. Knowing who they are.
we love all butts even the slow ones
You were there with Quark and that happened? That shows that going together is the right idea! That's brilliant, Jim, could you find the desk again?
[A touch too late, she remembers to rein her enthusiasm in with professionalism.]
Of course they can't really be ghosts. Ghosts aren't real. But until we find out what they are we might as well try, right?
then i am in the correct place
Okay, the desk. If no one's moved it, it should still be where it was in the video. You can judge it by the angle of the window. Are you anywhere near the school still?
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[For all she'd seen, most of her is still convinced that a rational explanation will be forthcoming, if they only search and think hard enough. That is the purpose of science, isn't it?]
I'm going to be there in a few days. We're headed North. Where are you? Can you join us? It'd be best if we're all there together.
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Anyway, I'm downtown. With this weather, I wouldn't risk crossing back into the tunnels. And - I'm not exactly sure I'm young enough to count.
Can you keep me updated?
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Does it work?
[She still sounds a little doubtful. Can't help it, really.]
Oh, I saw that the tunnels were dangerous, too. I hope the weather changes soon. If only it wasn't so hard to tell day to day. When I go back I'll ask Lao Dian if he knows how to predict the weather, with all the other things he knows. He'll teach me for sure... but we'll wait for you if we have to! If something's spoken to you at the school before, it must mean you are young enough?
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Who's Lao Dan?
It... might. The instruments played back for Dr. House and he's not exactly a kid.
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[There is a note of scolding in her voice. A note of command, even.]
Lao Dian is a smuggler, but he's also a Chinese mandarin. He knows almost everything in the world - really, I'm not only saying that. He speaks three times as many languages as me, and he's been all over the world from Beiping to Baghdad. If he was here... [she trails off with a mournful sigh.]
But the instruments played back for me too. I think maybe it's just something they do?
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[ That there's no tone there is a large part of why he's been sticking to text recently, even if typing is still something of a struggle. ]
Zell says he would if you asked him.
Lao Dian sounds like a pretty interesting guy, even if I don't know what half of those words mean again. Maybe he'll show up. Seems to happen a lot for some people.
And good point. Have any of you guys been to the parks? Trying to think of anywhere else that might react to kids the way the school does.
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[Kesara trails off here, and not in doubt. If it really is dying, and yet, if there is returning... she shouldn't say what she thinks. She shouldn't even think what she thinks.]
Tell Zell he'd better, if he promises! But anyway I hope Lao Dian doesn't come, he can't walk very well and it wouldn't be good for his health to be here. It's much better that it's me. I'll tell him all about it when I'm back. [However dearly she loves the all-knowing old smuggler, sometimes she also loves the idea of knowing something he doesn't.]
I haven't been to any parks, but there was this part of the library with books that I think were for children, books of pictures. I didn't feel much there, but... [Well, they were books. She'd rather not complete this sentence either.] Maybe it takes more than child, there?
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[ He mistakes her tone for doubt, in any case; the actual truth doesn't even occur to him. ]
We've circled around the library a few times. I'll check it out again, let you know if I find anything different.
This'll all be a hell of a story when we get back, not that anyone'll believe it.
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I believe you, Jim. [It's not an apology, but her voice is solemn, serious. She isn't even saying it just to stay on his good side.]
But they'll have to believe me when I show them the things I've learned, even if I can't take anything from here with me. I've been learning all I can, so I can prove it. My teacher knows I like to, to tell stories, but she believes when there is proof.
@quark; voice
[Poor timing for the weather to have taken a dive; the two of them were sort of counting on filling up on rations.]/small>
I'll try talking to the ghost kids, maybe something good will happen. I want to try everything I can do be helpful!
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[How fortunate that Kesara is such a competent liar; she can hide her sudden jealousy. House said he'd teach her. She likes Quark, but she can't let him get in the way. Especially not since he is a boy.]
I'm heading North now with Terezi and Vriska. It might take us a little more time but you mustn't do anything without me! It needs to be us younger folk. Having someone older around might disturb the ghosts.
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[He likes exploring on his own, anyway.]
I'll try to wait for you, but I don't know how long we're going to be here. He might want to go somewhere else soon. We mostly just stopped by for food.
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[And if he doesn't, well, Kesara is certainly not opposed to sowing the seeds of discontent.]