TWENTY-TWO souls » a call for help

[martelandmany]

The next experiment is underway. I'm not entirely sure yet what it does. Please, if you are able to speak, tell me of any changes you've experienced in the last couple of days. This holds doubly if we're acquainted.

[Filtered: Kratos]

Yuan is... I'm not sure. Lifeless, I think. It looks to be my brother's work.

I need your assistance.

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[corrinesbell]

[MARTEL please tell it you can understand it. Her. Except she's not trying to talk. Fail ninja is fail even looking like this]

[martelandmany]

[She takes one look at the glowing ball and her voice is sympathetic:] Sheena...

[A bit more determined:] Come to my house, I'll see if there's anything I might do to make this easier on you. Yuan's here as well, and as artificially lifeless as your Colette once was.

[corrinesbell]

[you could really make this easier by telling her how to communicate with people. Thinking isn't doing it]

[martelandmany]

[...So Sheena's not coming?]

[corrinesbell]

[she is]

[martelandmany]

[But oh no, Volt won't fit in the door... So Martel's hurrying to open and clear the largest window available. That should do it.]

[corrinesbell]

[somehow Volt squeezes through there. The body isn't all that corporeal anyway. Hope no one was touching the plumbing though]

[martelandmany]

Have you any knowledge of Volt's communicative clicking? I was able to understand that, in Aselia...

[corrinesbell]

[doing her best. Martel may get a sense of 'no. I can't even understand it, how could I speak it?']

[martelandmany]

I apologize, I thought that it might come naturally in that form... Do you know how to make the clicking noises themselves? If so, one click could mean yes, two clicks could mean no.

[corrinesbell]

[uh. ...There, that was something like a crackle or buzz]

[martelandmany]

[A slight smile. Progress!] Has anyone else seen you in this form?

[corrinesbell]

[lots of people have probably seen her hovering along. One buzz]

[martelandmany]

[Hmm... A thought comes to her.]

If anyone might be considered an expert on Volt's kind, it would be that Klarth fellow. Do you think he might be able to help you?

[corrinesbell]

D-Do you know how embarrassing that would be?

[someone appears to have gotten it. Accidentally. Also if a purple zappy sphere could blush, it would be]

[martelandmany]

Embarrassing? How so?