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Sep 16, 2011 19:53

Karen has been looking for Rollie all morning. She's got Josiah with her, dragging him along in his cart. She's been having a one-sided conversation abotu whether 'Josie' or 'Joe' or 'Joey' suits him best but, mostly, she's been doing it to cover her rising sense of panic. Ainsley disappeared and so did Shadow; Karen's old enough to know that ( Read more... )

plot: powers, dr. rollie saunders, delirium, karen brockman, max, edmund pevensie

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not_the_s September 20 2011, 10:01:19 UTC
"Karen?" Kon frowns when he sees the girl. He doesn't know her well, but he does know her and he's never liked seeing a little girl - even if she is older than he is - upset. She's poking some...some thing and he doesn't know what it is except that it looks like some kind of giant cocoon. That's never a good thing.

"You okay? Anything I can do?"

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goingtodorking September 20 2011, 19:22:14 UTC
"I think it ate Rollie," she says, frowning, still studying it, her head tilted on one side. She's cared, but she's not going anywhere.

"I can't find him and I think he's in there."

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not_the_s September 21 2011, 23:15:55 UTC
"Ooookay," Kon says slowly. He eyes the cocoon warily. "Then we have to get him out of there, right? Or else...well, the island is doing funny things. Don't you usually have to wait for butterflies to hatch?"

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goingtodorking September 22 2011, 21:02:19 UTC
"Sometimes?" says Karen, with her nose wrinkled. "But he's not a butterfly. He's a doctor. And he's kind of my Dad. What if he never comes out?"

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not_the_s September 23 2011, 01:51:09 UTC
"Yeah, but you know how the island does weird things every once in a while? It's doing the same kind of thing now. So while he's normally kind of your Dad, he might be doing something else today. We can wait for a little while right here and see if he comes out and if he doesn't, we can encourage him a little." He puts a hand on her shoulder and looks down at her. "How does that sound?"

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goingtodorking September 23 2011, 21:28:12 UTC
"It sounds stupid," she says, because nine year olds are, at their core, honest and, sometimes, it's too tiring to try to be nice. "And it's disgusting. And this place is really, really stupid." She looks at his hand. "And that's not particularly reassuring."

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not_the_s September 24 2011, 20:09:41 UTC
Kon snorted. "True on all counts, but you've got to admit, there's not a whole lot else we can do. And you have to remember, it's not normal logic we're dealing with, it's island logic. The same thing that gave us the jukebox and the clothes box and the same bookshelf that keeps handing me comics of my life back home. Stupid and crazy is normal around here."

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goingtodorking September 25 2011, 20:34:24 UTC
"I'm nine," says Karen, still looking at the cocoon, sniffing. "And you're a grown-up. You're supposed to be helpful at times like this. You're supposed to know what to do."

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not_the_s September 25 2011, 23:14:29 UTC
Kon decided not to let her now how old he really was or, in this case, how old he really wasn't. "Maybe some of them pretend they know everything, but I only know the stuff I know and I'm not going to pretend anything different. What I can say is that the odds are good that if it is Rollie, he'll come out of it and will likely come out soon."

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goingtodorking September 27 2011, 16:18:33 UTC
"Well, that's not very comforting at all," she says, and sniffs again, wiping her nose with her fingers. She studies it for a moment.

"I wonder what he's thinking."

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not_the_s September 28 2011, 22:33:58 UTC
"Maybe he's not thinking. Maybe he's dreaming. If it were me, I'd be dreaming of flying." After all, that's what cocoons were. Caterpillars became butterflies and butterflies had wings. He would definitely be thinking about flying, soaring through the breeze and letting the wind catch you as you began to fall.

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goingtodorking September 29 2011, 17:49:23 UTC
That's quite a nice thought and Karen lingers over it for a moment before she opens her eyes.

"That would be nice," she says.

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not_the_s October 5 2011, 22:46:42 UTC
"It is nice," he promises. "And, when you're older if you want, I can even take you up." She'd been here as long if not longer than he'd been here. One of these days, she was going to be old enough. Unlike Coraline, who would never be old enough because she was his little sister.

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