01 ▮ day ▮ voice

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[Deep breaths, Lou, deep breaths. He's still practicing this exercise about a split second before the recording begins, shifting his focus to it immediately, superficially ready to laugh and quip at this silly challenge someone has proposed (forced) him to take part in.

It's nothing but pure nerves, he assures you.]This is... definitely the most

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[rainbowfishing]

You should see it when the really weird stuff happens...

[But then she seems to brighten as if giving herself a little unseen shake.]

Anyway, hi new guy, I'm Vanille!

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Vanille. [He'd ask what kind of name that is, but we don't want to be unpleasant.] Nice to meet you.

I'm afraid to ask what 'the really weird stuff' is.

[rainbowfishing]

Do you have a name?

Oh, well there were monsters everywhere a week or so back and people have turned into animals and then there were two weeks where it was always daylight out because it was this big party. Night is odd I guess until you get used to not having a voice and the mirror is pretty funny too.

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[There's a lengthy pause. The reason should be obvious.]

... Lou. That's my name.

[rainbowfishing]

Well Lou, nice to meet you!

[She's kind of used to being a weirdo here. Really.]

Got any questions?

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[He ought to start getting used to it again.]

... Yeah. The mirror. [He glances at it briefly, tries hard not to repeat the decision.] What am I looking at?

[rainbowfishing]

Oh! The mirror shows you home as if you were there, like, if you're running and you look down, you'll see your feet. Or you'll see your hands. But you don't see all of you, if that makes sense?

[She's sort of bad at articulating this stuff.]

So it's like you're there...even while you're here.

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... Really?

[It manages to get him to look at the damn mirror again, if nothing else.

Fuck.]

Why can I see this?

[rainbowfishing]

Because you have eyes?

[She laughs at her own bad joke.]

They said it's because they want us to remember our dreams because they're kind and it'd be mean if we couldn't see them anymore.

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Isn't this the dream?

[rainbowfishing]

It is but that's not what the local people or the royalty or the science people say.

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Then what the fuck do they say?

[rainbowfishing]

[Don't swear at her 8C]

They say this is home, where we belong and that all the other things are just a dream we're remembering.

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[sorry, vanille, he's one of those. 8'|

And so a long silence follows. He's frowning quite deeply behind his PORTAL.]

They don't really expect anyone to believe that, do they.

[rainbowfishing]

I don't know...if the normal people who think this is home used to be the way we are then I guess they do expect us to believe it eventually?

[She doesn't sound happy with that idea, pausing several times and the question isn't just the unintended side effect of her accent - she has no clue what anyone expects anyone to believe here.]

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Yeah, I doubt that's going to happen.