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[sleepy-eyed, sure, but he does brighten when she appears at the door.]

A–[a little start.] Yes, just...right here, actually...[wow, that's funny, huh? he points to the door next door, feeling hot at the ears.] Right there, ah...

[ANYWAY. going inside, hushing his tone:] I only found one pencil, though...Is that alright? I can share it...

( cue surprise on Madoka's face as she peeks from her doorway briefly to one next door. )

Wow, I had no idea. That's great that I have a friend right next door though. ( quietly shutting the door with that and leading him along toward her where her room is. ) I think I might have one, if not I can always use one of my colored pencils.

( annnd pushing her door open, please excuse (or not) all the stuffed animals. )

Make yourself comfortable.

Woh...

[plushies. plushy critters are new. he openly gawks around the room.

it's...it's so much different than the one he's, uh, borrowing. the look, the...the smell. it's a good smell.]

This place is really nice...

You think so?

( that's enough to make her smile grow, she's pretty happy with what she has managed to do in her time here. it's not home, but it's homely... and that's enough for now. )

Thank you. I really wanted to make this place... um, well, inviting and comfortable.

[wow, he forgot about that make-yourself-comfortable part already. he jolts a little before daring to actually walk further in, turning around to look at what he's missed.

his eyes drop to the plush critters arranged in view.]

What are those?

( just as quietly closing her door, she turns and blinks at the question before her eyes fall on the plush animals. )

Oh, those are stuffed animals. They're toys that I really enjoy collecting, hehe. ( she wonders over and pointing to a practically odd looking pink seal. ) The seal was actually the first one I got here, my friend bought it for me.

They're supposed to be animals? [he leans to peer at the seal.] What kind?

[no florescent animals where he's from, that's for sure.]

All sorts. Let's see... I have a seal, puppy, rabbit, owl and oh! ( holding up this super kawaii cat, just look at that dapper scarf. ) And a cat.

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[huh.... he slowly stares at each one in turn, blinking at the cat she's holding.

he's never really seen many animals before, so it's pretty easy to trust her. just...

if he ever saw anything like these in the wild? it'd be pretty startling!]

I've never seen things like this before... [blink.] Unless I have, but never...never really looked. They're from the city?

Well, they normally don't look like this. They're normal, everyday colors not all colors of the rainbow and wearing scarfs.

( she assumes, because the future is WEIRD. )

You can probably find cats and dogs around the city. Owls would probably in the forests, but I've never been out there to see and seals live in the ocean... so I don't think we'd be able to see any here.

[oh. that would...would make sense. bright pink cats and seals...that'd be strange, even for this place, right? Martin's mouth quirks a little, a breathy kind of laugh in his exhale.]

That's almost a shame...they look kind of friendly, like this.

They would be so, so cute and this place is usually so gray, so a little bright color here and there would be pretty great.

Oh! Speaking of colors, ( just turning away and grabbing a few things here and there before setting the contents on her bed. papers, a few colored pencils in various shapes and colors and some books because gotta bear down on something! ) Ta-da!

Huh–! [he startles a little, blinking. it takes a second for him to recognize what she's unearthed.

oh!

he smiles.]

These are for drawing the letters, right?

Mm, you can use anything you want.

( Madoka reaches out to take a sheet of paper for herself but stops short of taking anything else, simply folding the piece of paper once and then twice into a square shape. )

You know, I just got an idea of what we could do with our letters since we send them.

What's that? [it's a little absently, asking, but his attention does turn toward her well after he's got his eyes pried off the paper she's lifted to her hands and begun to fold.

he blinks.]

Well, you see... back home in Japan we have this legend that says if you fold a thousand paper cranes that a crane will come and grant you a single wish.

So we could write our letters, fold them into cranes and maybe we could reach a thousand one day.

[he looks impressed, if not still a little bewildered. paper...cranes? crane? he doesn't know what it means, but it has to be something interesting – at least nice. it is Madoka, after all.]

A thousand... [man. that sounds like a lot! but.

but it sounds exciting.

grinning:] We'll try, right? Can you show me how?

Really? ( oops, it is really hard for her to contain her excitement. the thought had been a passing one, not something Madoka was sure the other would agree with... let alone anything they could possible do.

but there was no point in not trying, right? and the more she thinks on it, the more she wants to try and see it through. )

Yes, of course. ( she turns away again, this time to grab a pair of scissors from her drawn and get to cutting the paper into squares- keeping one and holding the other out to Martin. ) Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy.

[boy, he hopes so. he's having quite a time trying to...to find things he can do. that he's good at. that can make himself and other people happy.

he sits down on the floor next to the bed, shifting to keep out of her way as he pulls his ankles in to sit cross-legged.]

...What is a crane, anyway?

They're these really big birds with long legs and a long neck.

( following, she sits down and begins to sketch out a rather cartoonish looking version of the bird on her square of paper.

but it gets the point across of how they look, she thinks as she shows him. )

They're symbols of good fortune and longevity back home, and the legends goes that they can live for a thousand years.

[he blinks, leaning and tilting his head at the little critter sketch. wow...]

Is that really true? Or is it just...legends?

I like to think so. After all... anything is possible, right?

( she smiles softly before flipping the page over and writing a greeting to her family down, but without the tablets auto-translating everything it simply appears as Japanese and stays as such. )

Hmm, so much has happened it's hard to know just where to start.

[himself, he was rifling through a pocket to pull out the crumpled, folded-too-many-times-over bit of scrap paper he'd brought with him.

flattened out and smoothed on the floor best he can, it shows his work: alphabets over and over, scrawled first in Bariyan's hand, traced thickly over in Martin's. fairly gradeschool, but then...Martin never learned to write, and this is a new body. double new?

speaking of double, he does a double-take when he sees her writing. a little startled:]

Wait– what's that? Those aren't...[he leans forward, squinting at them.] What letters are those?

Hmm? ( she pauses in her writing, glancing over first to him and then the paper on the floor. shifting in place, Madoka lifts her paper a little to show. ) They're part of the Japanese alphabet, it's the language I speak back home.

( glancing back to his paper, she tilts her head a little. ) Are you learning English?

Huh–?

No, I'm...it's letters. [he frowns a little, not understanding.] Like the words on the machines, but...

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