Comments | scorched: 86. [Video]

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86. [Video]

Mar 01, 2011 21:36

[Here you are, on the roof of the headquarters again, and it's evident that the Forge has come on by accident because Priscilla isn't paying attention to it. Instead, she's hunched over a book, an old and rusty dagger in one hand... reading, and crying at the same time ( Read more... )

!priscilla, scar, lady, tseng, irene

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video for once! O: lonestray March 2 2011, 06:11:08 UTC

[He'd never really thought about it either. To think his brother had been here before him...it had never crossed his mind before. All this time he'd been waiting...

Despite the rare video response, he's not quite looking at the camera--maybe he didn't mean to hit that button? At any rate he's holding something like a journal, too.]

It's a sobering notion, certainly.

...Are you alright?

NO VIDEO! NONE! yetsleeping March 2 2011, 06:36:11 UTC

[her voice shakes.]

I'm... I don't know.

I'm fine.

OPPOSITE DAY I TELL YOU. ....back to voice. lonestray March 2 2011, 07:27:08 UTC

You're not. [He's used that lie enough to know exactly when someone else is. No judgment in his tone, simply statement of fact.]

...It belonged to someone important. [An educated guess, based on her reaction and his own. And leaving room to talk about it, if she wishes to.]

voice! yetsleeping March 2 2011, 07:43:37 UTC

Mm.

[the sound of acknowledgement - admission. The closest she can manage to yes.]

[there's a noise - the sound of her shifting in place, and hugging that book.]

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voice; theotokos March 2 2011, 14:29:28 UTC

Priscilla?

voice; yetsleeping March 3 2011, 02:43:46 UTC

Lady. [A little sniffle, and a shaky exhale]

I'm... okay. I mean, I think I'm okay.

voice; theotokos March 3 2011, 02:54:09 UTC

Do you need some time to recuperate?

voice; yetsleeping March 3 2011, 08:15:47 UTC

No, I... I should be okay. I just.

I don't know. It's better to do things than just sit around and think, right?

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fingersloophole March 2 2011, 20:33:54 UTC

People die. Here and where we come from. Though I doubt the certainty of death is any comfort.

yetsleeping March 3 2011, 02:50:05 UTC

[Nice, Tseng. She presses her lips together.]

Not comforting, no.

And supposedly the Scorched don't age. So it's not even necessary.

fingersloophole March 3 2011, 05:37:19 UTC

All death is necessary. How else are we reborn?

[He isn't used to dealing with lady feelings, alright?]

We are born and grow and die. But we're never really gone.

yetsleeping March 3 2011, 08:09:24 UTC

...um. What?

What do you mean... reborn? Are you talking about reincarnation?

I don't believe in reincarnation. Or that we're never gone. I believe that if we die, that's the end of our stories.

And there's nothing left at all. Except a corpse. And other people's memories.

That's what I believe.

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halcyonthird March 3 2011, 02:17:44 UTC

[Debates for a good ten minutes whether to respond at all. Is it Priscilla she's worried about upsetting further, or herself? Ultimately it doesn't matter.]

Whatever you saw, I am sorry that it's upset you.

yetsleeping March 3 2011, 02:52:35 UTC

[.........]

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It's fine.

[Her voice is tense, and shaky.]

[voice] halcyonthird March 7 2011, 03:44:40 UTC

[Debates if she should leave it alone, but:]

Alright.

voice mudhair March 3 2011, 03:00:13 UTC

[Ah-

Ah- oh. Um-!]

Are... are you all right? [Clarice: not the most subtle or comforting of characters!]

voice yetsleeping March 3 2011, 08:02:46 UTC

[...]

I don't know.

voice mudhair March 3 2011, 12:29:56 UTC

Oh. I-

[awkward pause is awkward]

I... started carving a horse. I think I'm getting better, so- Well-

I hope... you're okay, I mean. Yes, that's what I mean.

voice yetsleeping March 4 2011, 09:27:07 UTC

A horse?

[She sniffles.]

...can I see it?

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