014 ~ [Action]

[soreplaceable]

[It was late last night when Ion was taken from the village, and it had been done so quietly it might have been impossible to know he was gone if his bedding hadn't been thrown around the room.]

[But he wasn't gone for very long, as it's less than a day later that Ion returns to the village sometime in the early evening. At a glance, he might just

Comments

[frost_jewel]

[This evening Mia was at the library, looking for things to occupy her time, when she has it.

She didn't expect to meet a younger boy in the center of the plaza but slowly she's becoming used to the idea that life here can be just as strange as life at home. So here, Ion, have a smile.]

Hello. Are you also new?

[soreplaceable]

[He'd return the smile if he had any idea what a smile was. As it stands now, her greeting will earn her a blank stare.]

[frost_jewel]

[Perhaps he can't speak, like that girl she met the other day.]

[soreplaceable]

[He can speak just fine, of course, but he doesn't know any words to say.]

[frost_jewel]

Are you all right?

[soreplaceable]

[...that was a question, wasn't it? It registers somewhere in his mind that yes, these are words he can process. They can be understood. But what did they mean? And answer comes out almost too quickly, as if it was the only way he knew how to respond.]

I don't know.

[frost_jewel]

[Oh dear. That's never a good answer.]

Well, does anything hurt?

[soreplaceable]

Hurt?

[Another question he didn't know the answer to... "Hurt"? What did it mean to "hurt"? It wasn't something he'd ever felt before.]