82 - so this is how Maho felt, huh

[sore_feet_man]

[Filter to Hibari]

The mugura riding experiment will have to wait.

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I feel as if my head were about to burst... I can hear everything, all of it. Every word, every feeling, every notion crossing every mind on this entire island.

And what's more, I can't see--

(( BOOSTER! Get yer superhero ass over to help your apartmentmate! 8O Unless

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[captureherheart]

. . . Are you OK? You want me to get some aspirin? Or the healers?

Geez, I've never actually seen him being anything but calm. Guess it's not as much of a thrill for everyone as it is for me. Maybe I should go for dolphin next . . . Uh. After this, of course.

[sore_feet_man]

I'm all right now; I just needed to control this new "ability"...

*reads your mind btw* What's that about a dolphin?

[captureherheart]

You hear things and your eyes glow? So you're a blind psychic . . . Those come up a lot in comic books, too. Trade your sight for 'true' sight or whatever.

D-Dolphin? I didn't say anything about -- Uh.

Right. Blind psychic. OK, this one worked in a book, too. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Peter Piper pecked a pick of peckled peckers, Peter Piter picked a pep of peckled pippers, Piter Piper pepped a pick of pippled pickers, Pe . . .

I don't think I'm doing this right.

Uhh, yeah. I guess I turn into animals now. It's kinda cool.

It's awesome is what. Uhh. I mean, Peter pickled pipers -- Aw, forget it.

[sore_feet_man]

*telepathy-talks into Syaolan's mind* Focus on this telepathic conversation, and I'll do my best to ignore any subconscious thoughts you're having at the same time.

It looks like everyone I've met has taken on abilities of some sort. Have you also?

[captureherheart]

Wha?! . . . Oh. Right, well, I'll try and keep my mind on topic, but it's harder than it looks on TV.

Yeah, like I was saying, I can turn into any animal I can think of. Kinda cool. And a lot more controllable.

[sore_feet_man]

There's that "TV" I keep hearing mentioned every now and then... Is that so? What animals have you tried so far?

[captureherheart]

Well, I started as a goat, then did wolf. I began to control it after that, going through rabbit, chipmunk, and a bunch of cute things for Colette, sparrow, a giant extinct bird, a giant extinct dinosaur . . . I was gonna try dolphin next. And maybe some other extinct things. You got a biology textbook anywhere?

[sore_feet_man]

...Fascinating. Were you still able to hold a sense of self when you turned into an animal? Could you still think? Speak?

[captureherheart]

Yeah, actually. You know when you read about these things, people turn into dolphins and never turn back? I could sorta feel why, but it was easy enough to get ahold of my, umm . . . my human-ness, I guess. The island probably doesn't want me a hundred miles underwater when this wears off. I couldn't talk through their mouths, but I could think -- You'd probably still be able to communicate with me, right?

((Sorry about that. T_T I went on impromptu vacation for two days without my knowledge.))

[sore_feet_man]

Very interesting...

...Nn? "The island probably doesn't want me a hundred miles underwater", meaning... Do you believe that the magic of this island holds an intent to preserve all of us? Ah--

But of course. People are brought back to life here, so it would make sense. Like Ichigo, and Gunter... *gosh it's hard to keep all these thoughts to himself when he's having a telepathic conversation*

((Not a problem, I've been busy as a bee, so I didn't really notice...? XD;; That sounds mean!! I mean-- GIMME MORE SYAORAN, NAO, BIYATCH uuuuuh))

[captureherheart]

((YES AYAME WHATEVER YOU SAY MISTRESS AYAME.))

Well, I mean, it'd be -- Oh, sorry.

It'd be a pain to wait for my body to float up somewhere. I think you need the corpse for the resurrection -- Grif was the most recent one to die, I think, during the whole murder trial business. Guess that all panned out, though.

Ichigo and Gunter . . . Who were they?

[sore_feet_man]

Friends who have since left the island. They both risked their lives to protect the people here, and were only brought back from death thanks to the magic of this island.

The way death is treated here doesn't sit well with me. *gosh this is getting annoying - he tries to switch topics to get his mind off this one, thus revealing all his thoughts* ...Make sure you don't take any chances with your special abilities, Syaoran. You don't want to be stuck as a grasshopper right when the island takes away your power.