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justanexpression) wrote2013-04-09 07:03 pm
justanexpression) wrote2013-04-09 07:03 pm
Video 1: A Challenger Appears!
[The angle when the gear turns on is... strange. Like it’s being held by someone too distracted to pay attention to where it might be pointing. There’s part of a chin, a shoulder, and plenty of scenery. The top of a whitish blob flops past the bottom of the screen. From the sound it makes, it must be a Seel.]
This is really weird. You know that?
[The Seel gives a cheerful affirmative from somewhere. Suddenly, the picture shifts, moving erratically until it stops with a soft thud as the gear is dropped and lands in the grass. At least it has a good view, now, framing most of a boy in his teens, crouching on his toes next to a backpack as he rummages through it, occasionally pulling things out for a closer look. His blue hooded sweatshirt has seen better days, and his pants don’t seem to be from quite the right century. Together with the ice-white hair, it makes something of an odd picture.]
If this is... Naw, it’s way too cutesy to be one of Pitch’s tricks.
[He looks up, past the gear at where the sounds of the Seel are coming from. His smile grows, just a bit.]
You sure you’re not a Selkie?
[A negative. The gear is nudged closer, and he laughs as he reaches for it.]
Okay, okay. Remind me to introduce you to Sandy sometime.
Now what am I supposed to do with it?
[Cue the random pushing of buttons. Electronics-abuse is always the answer, right?]
This is really weird. You know that?
[The Seel gives a cheerful affirmative from somewhere. Suddenly, the picture shifts, moving erratically until it stops with a soft thud as the gear is dropped and lands in the grass. At least it has a good view, now, framing most of a boy in his teens, crouching on his toes next to a backpack as he rummages through it, occasionally pulling things out for a closer look. His blue hooded sweatshirt has seen better days, and his pants don’t seem to be from quite the right century. Together with the ice-white hair, it makes something of an odd picture.]
If this is... Naw, it’s way too cutesy to be one of Pitch’s tricks.
[He looks up, past the gear at where the sounds of the Seel are coming from. His smile grows, just a bit.]
You sure you’re not a Selkie?
[A negative. The gear is nudged closer, and he laughs as he reaches for it.]
Okay, okay. Remind me to introduce you to Sandy sometime.
Now what am I supposed to do with it?
[Cue the random pushing of buttons. Electronics-abuse is always the answer, right?]
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...you are welcome. Is there anything else you wish to ask? I have been here for some time.
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Only everything?
-Seel?-
[His attention slips past the camera.] Yeah, I know you tried. You're just not the greatest at that whole communicating thing, you know?
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Well, we have a start at that. We are all brought here from different worlds, usually starting right where you are now. You will have to travel by foot to get anywhere. The next town is a few days from where you are.
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[No. Seriously. They take away his ability to fly, then make him WALK everywhere?!]
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You know, every time I think something is the worst idea I'm ever going to end up going along with, something else proves me wrong.
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[Ziva has had and experienced a lot of bad ideas in her lifetime, okay.]
Though this is not an idea that any of us had. People appear and disappear without warning.
[It's the disappearing that's a sticking point with her group right now.]
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So someone's just grabbing random people and sticking them... here?
[Okay, maybe not so unlike Pitch after all. He'd love that sort of confusion and isolation.]
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Someone, something. No one is quite sure, I think. They do not seem to be in much of a hurry to change that.
[Confusion, yes. Isolation...well, that depends on the person, though Ziva's definitely missing her people.]
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This is so the opposite of fun.
-Seel?-
I wasn't talking about you.
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In some aspects. Really, it is usually not so bad as all that.
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[At least there weren't any large bags or elves playing instruments involved this time.]
...Could be worse.
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[Ziva's been through worse. Therefore she's pretty zen about this whole mess.]
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Yeah, free to move around if you want to walk everywhere. Bunny's tunnels would be better than that.
[He's just being petulant. Don't mind him.]
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Also Ziva would be killer in a snowball fight man, you don't know what you're missing.]
It is what it is. As for the rest...there may be people you know here already, or arriving with you, there may not. Generally speaking, everyone on this network has been in the same situation you are in now.
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The sort of people I know... I'd probably already know if they were here. But that was probably supposed to be reassuring, so thanks.
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[She still hopes to see someone she knows every time new people come in.]
Anyway, at least walking now is not so bad. A couple of months ago, the entire region was covered in snow. A friend of mine arrived in that, it was terrible to travel through.
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It snows here?
[Suddenly, this place isn't NEARLY so bad!]
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[Israel? Not much snow. D.C.? Somewhat more but still not BURIED IN IT.]
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Then you've missed out. Snow days are the best! A whole month of them would be even better.
[And he's not only saying that because he invented them.]
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There is the saying 'too much of a good thing.'
[Besides, she hates being cold.]
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Oh, come on. Don't be such a stick in the mud.
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I am from a country where there is very little snowfall, and I did not even live in the region where it falls--in fact, I spent most of my childhood in the desert. I have gotten more used to it, after leaving, but it is not my preference.
[After various and sundry injuries that have since healed that ache in the cold, and having to be an adult and go out in snowfall even if she doesn't want to, and other unpleasant experiences, being cold? Not her favorite sensation.]
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