[video] Tenth Morph

[notjelly]

[Well, today Camille isn't looking hideous or unnerving. Today she just looks like an adorable fennec fox. Albeit a fennec fox with eye-raping neon coloring.]

Hmmmm, is there something going on that I should know about? Things are seeming tense. Again. Lots of crazy robots and suchall on the network again! It's really becoming a theme, isn't it

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[notyourutopian]

[It's been several weeks since Eleanor did anything other than look at her wearable, really, skimming the occasional network post and then not answering. But part of her did feel bad for just...vanishing...after the Black Rock insanity. And Camille...well, she was a friend, right?]

[Not that Eleanor thought she should use that word. Every time she did people vanished. Friends and family a like. But part of her was actually a little lonely...]

[So the feed finally flicked on to show a wall of leaves, as the wearable was hanging from a tree, and Eleanor seated on a rock on the ground in a simple white dress, absently cutting a fruit she had found with a small knife. She looked rather disheveled, clothing torn in a couple places, her hair a mess, a few blotches of dirt on her face and arms. She managed a weak smile at the screen.]

...Hey Camille.

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[notjelly]

Young lady where have you been.

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[notyourutopian]

...just...here?

[She shrinks back a little.]

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[notjelly]

You completely vanished! What happened to cooking lessons? I was starting to think you'd disappeared and gone home! I was worried!

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[notyourutopian]

I'm sorry.

[She focuses her attention on the fruit to keep from looking at the screen, finishing cutting it in half and setting part on her bare knee.]

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[notjelly]

Hmph! Where in the world are you? I'm coming to get you, you look like you need a blanket and a solid meal or four.

[Somewhat more gently,] What happened to you, girl?

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[notyourutopian]

I'm...around. One of the garden zones.

[Yes she's being unspecific, no that's probably not going to change. She finally looks up, though.]

I just...I needed to-to vanish for a little while. Jack's gone, Cindy's gone, you...well. It was after the black rocks.

[She just shrugs and looks back at her fruit.]

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[notjelly]

Where? I want to feed you.

Ah...that. I didn't realize you'd lost people, though...they might come back though, right? And as for me, there's no reason to worry!

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[notyourutopian]

...I have fruit.

[She pointedly holds up half her fruit in indication.]

That's what Jack said, too.

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[notjelly]

[:|] It's a piece of fruit, Eleanor, it's not a meal.

[Sigh.] Well, if those teleporters try to send me home permanently I'll just have to yank out all their wires! Don't worry.

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[notyourutopian]

I spent sixteen years eating canned beans, processed meat and chips, and sea lichin. Fruit is fine.

[She shifts faintly and shrugs.]

Okay. Maybe you won't go.

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[notjelly]

[:|!] Well I won't have anyone eating poorly on this station! What's the point of making food if you can't feed people who are hungry?

[Another sigh.] Look. It seems to me that this going home thing is mostly out of our control. If that's the case, there really isn't any point in worrying about it. The best we can do is enjoy our time here will we have it, and enjoy each other's company while we're all here, right?

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[notyourutopian]

Maybe in a couple days, I'll come and get something to eat, alright?

[She shrugs.]

...I've never been very good at accepting things I cannot control.

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[notjelly]

...Very well, then.

No, me neither.

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[notyourutopian]

Thanks.

[There's a little pause as she finishes cutting up her fruit.]

...How have you been?

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[notjelly]

I've been well enough! Trying to get back into the swing of things, as it were. I like chaos as much as the next amorph, but it's really been wild around here! It's nice that there's a bit of a break.