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[etokyramnasmekt]

Butterflies in the aether.

Waves in the black.

Doesn't mean anything. Just electrical impulses.

...she's tired...

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[boxprincess]

What is a butterfly? Who is tired?

[etokyramnasmekt]

Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Papilionoidea. Winged insects. Cause hurricanes.

River.

[boxprincess]

... what is a Lepidoptera? What is an insect? What are wings? What is a hurricane?

River? Is that who is tired? I hope she may sleep! Mokubex told me nightmares keep you awake. Is she having nightmares?

[etokyramnasmekt]

Most speciose category of insects. Insect is the informal name of Class Insecta. Wings are often-membranous and thinly-boned appendages used for flight, sometimes involving feathers. A hurricane is a cyclical wind-storm.

Yes. Has nightmares while awake... sadly, they don't drive her to sleep.

LOL THIS COULD GO ON FOREVER

[boxprincess]

What is flight? What are feathers? What is a storm? I have never felt wind before. Does it feel nice?

I am very sorry River has scary nightmares. Why doesn't River think of something nice, like staying alive and making friends? Maybe the nightmares will go away, then!

YES IT IS. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A KNOW-IT-ALL AND A KNOW-NOTHING GET TOGETHER

[etokyramnasmekt]

Flight is aerial movement. Feathers are epidermal growths that form an outer covering for avians. A storm is an atmospheric disturbance that results in aberrant weather conditions. She likes wind... it does feel nice.

She can't. Has to think what she thinks. Just a passenger in her own body.

AHAHA YES~ THEY'LL GET ALONG WONDERFULLY :(

[boxprincess]

I... see! I hope to feel wind someday, too. And sunshine!

I do not understand. Is River a kitten, a niblet, a man, or a supreme God?

River wants to hug her. And teach her to dance.

[etokyramnasmekt]

She will. Wind is abundant. Sunshine less so.

A girl, like Nia is. Or, she once was. Maybe only a symbol for one, now. Artifice.

<3

[boxprincess]

I am very happy!

A girl? I have not been called that yet... I see! What is a symbol?

What is your name? Why do you only talk about River? Is she your friend?

Re: <3

[etokyramnasmekt]

Means something. Shows you what it means, but it isn't quite that.

River. She speaks of herself as though she were not herself, as she often feels as though this is the case. Can't be helped.

[boxprincess]

... ah.

I do not think I understand... but would you like to be friends, too? Maybe I can meet River one day!

[etokyramnasmekt]

She'd like that quite a lot.

...River is the one who speaks to Nia. Does that clarify?

(OOC: River really luffs her, but simultaneously is thinking "god, you are such a BOOB!")

[boxprincess]

I have not spoken to River, though! I've only spoken to you!

[ooc; LOL NIA JUST DOESN'T GET IT]

[etokyramnasmekt]

They are one and the same. Nia believes River and the girl she speaks to are separate; they are not. River is the name of the girl she talks with.

(OOC: She's doing her best. Really. She's FORCING lucidity, and it's... sort of working. Sorta.)

[boxprincess]

River and you are the same? So River is your name, then?

[ooc; hohoho, Nia finally gets it~ 8D maybe.]

[etokyramnasmekt]

Yes, it is.

(OOC: And the crippled horse crosses the finish line! <3 )