[It happens well before dawn.  There is static from the radios which have suddenly appeared, and the wavery tone of adjusting.  A couple seconds of a song play - Joan, apparently - and then it clicks to this.]

SFX: Older BOYS, young MEN, and a young MINDELAN talking to each other. A single SPARROW lands and chatters angrily

A YOUNG MAN, approx 17-18 ( Read more... )

Bellflower?  Could I have a word with you?

[she just wants to ask what she should do with Cloud after winning him in the auction.  Something that won't horribly backfire even though it probably will.]

[She isn't going to write out, "If the memory was real, I named myself after a horse".  She... just isn't.]

It looks like I've tilted before, in a tournament.  I unhorsed a Sir Voelden when he tried to run me through.  [She knows that everything she learned there is connected to pieces of her past - that, or the Ordeal is making her feel that way - ( Read more... )