motioned: (it's a beautiful night)
Ahiru ([personal profile] motioned) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2013-02-02 08:13 pm

video;

[The feed starts, focusing on a girl who appears to be around sixteen. She's sitting on a bed in the apartment she's been assigned to. She appears tense, nervous, though she does her best not to let that carry to her voice as she begins to speak.]

I'm sort of, um, not really new to the whole getting sent to a different world all of a sudden thing, so I don't really have any questions about that. I got everything about the war thing, too, even if I'm not going to have anything to do with it. I did have a few questions about some other things, though, so I'd be really grateful if there's someone out there who knows the answer!

The first thing might seem a little bit silly, but it's important. Um, to me, at least! I just wanted to know if there's a dance studio anywhere in this city, and where it is if there is one. The second thing I wanted to know is kind of more general, but, um, if the words Siren's Port mean anything to anyone here, I'd like to know, and to talk to those people a little bit, if I could. And the third thing...

[She pauses, looking down at her hands, away from the tablet.]

What do you think is the best place here to watch the sun go down? Um, thank you in advance.
whatsupcroc: (☇ ask: do you believe me?)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Except they did just do that.
whatsupcroc: (☇ subdued: so much for that idea)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the really shouldn't. But when you're as desperate to change things as they are, you do a lot of things you shouldn't.

( Her tone of voice softens. )

Like mess around with the past without knowing if it's going to bring you the kind of changes that don't completely wipe you and everything you know from the face of the planet.
whatsupcroc: (☇ sad: in some cases devastated)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
No, it doesn't. I'm really not going to say they have a right to what they do, 'cause I don't think they do. I can just understand their... logic, I guess. How they make it okay to themselves.

Besides, it's not the sort of thing we should always talk about like this, if you know what I mean?
whatsupcroc: (☇ doubt: yeeeeeeahno)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
... On the network?
whatsupcroc: (☇ grin: hate to admit it...)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
They don't censor us, I'm just -- pointing out -- ( and then she just starts to laugh. )

No, sorry, they're fine! I'm just saying it's kind of rude to criticize like this, and easier to tell them to your face if you care about them knowing at all.
whatsupcroc: (☇ listen: to the things you say)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
I feel like they'd listen. If that means they'll do anything other than say thank you for talking to them about your concerns, I don't know. But they'd at least listen, if you wanted to talk to them.
whatsupcroc: (☇ laugh: ha! you could say that)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
( Collette snorts, shaking her head. )

It's fine, just forget I said anything at all!
whatsupcroc: (☇ playful: sliest wink in the world)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
( She finds herself laughing again. )

Upset! No no, nothing like that! I'm amused, that's all.
whatsupcroc: (☇ grin: sounds like a plan)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm an easily amused person.
whatsupcroc: (☇ consider: what's up doc?)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't much of one in the first place. Though hit me up another time, and I can figure out a better one!
whatsupcroc: (☇ playful: sliest wink in the world)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's a philosophy that's worked well for me over the years!

( Said with a wink: )

Can't hurt to give it a try, every now and then!
whatsupcroc: (☇ laugh: you did not just do that)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
( There's no helping the laughter Collette gives in to after hearing Ahiru's summation. She knows it does, and is, in many ways that sort of optimism, but that's more in what she says and less in the reasons why she finds the world amusing. She's got to. If she let everything get to her, if she dwelled on all the unfair stuff, and the bad stuff, she'd have grown up crying all the time.

She did that enough as it was. Why make life harder than it needed to be? )


Ahaha! Yeah, you could say that I like my optimism like I like my sports -- extreme!
whatsupcroc: (☇ smile: keep a bright outlook)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2013-02-11 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
A balance of the two is probably best for planning, though I agree!

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