Twentieth Petal [audio - locked from hostiles]

[empathy_half]

Ah....

Hello everyone. I'm hoping that things have been alright with you all? At least... there hasn't been anything as [pause, picking her words here.] bad as things that have happened in the past.

What I mean is um...

Hello.

... [awkward silence before it clicks off]

Comments

[umadbear]

Oh? What sort of things have happened in the past around here?

[empathy_half]

Ah... it varies from very odd to... very horrible.

[umadbear]

Do go on. I'm still new to this...neighborhood.

[empathy_half]

Um... it is easy to find o-over the communication networks, or merely asking the locals.

[aka, Iris does not like talking about that stuff.]

[umadbear]

Well aren't you a local?

And I really do need help after all.

[empathy_half]

N-no, I'm a Tamer like you... I have been here a while but ah... I don't get out much.

[umadbear]

Oh? Agoraphobic?

[empathy_half]

... you could say it's like that.

[umadbear]

That's too bad.

After all just because you're inside doesn't mean the monsters can't get you right?

[empathy_half]

It's not the digimon I'm afraid of, miss.

[umadbear]

Oh, humans then?

They can be so cruel.

[empathy_half]

No.

[umadbear]

Now now if you're really trying to get out more and make friends you should give more then single word answers. It's just rude.

[empathy_half]

I didn't say anything like that, miss. And you asked a question that could be answered simply.

... also it's people who are cruel, not just humans.

[umadbear]

Then what is this post all about? Just saying hello?

What's the difference?

[empathy_half]

I guess.

People aren't just humans.