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042 [VIDEO

Aug 17, 2010 04:08

[The camera clicks on in the interior of a wood-board hut on the beach. Its door is open to display a beautiful waterside sunset but, as the viewer is shown around, it's the internal details that become the focus. The walls are lined with racks of gleaming surfboards, on gleaming rails, on wood scrubbed and varnished until it's started... yes, ( Read more... )

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1/....goodness knows peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:36:35 UTC

[ At first she just stares... which is not something he can see, but you know... ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:38:25 UTC

[ My that is a stupendously clean shack... she recognizes not just Grade-A cleaning products at work--professional that is--but the same effort, plus some... ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:39:12 UTC

[ Wait........what did he say....or rather write in the sand again?

...blinking, it's happening. ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:39:40 UTC

[ The gleaming distracted her.

And that's not even a lie. ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:40:14 UTC

[ But....those footprints in the sand.

...yes, about those.

Um. ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:40:49 UTC

[ ALKEFDSUOJLKEDOSJLKMEOJWDKLSLSKJFUOJPEWLDFSUOJEL;FDSIOPKL;WEFDSOJLKMEWFDSOJLKMEFDS ?!!?!?!?!?! ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:42:35 UTC

[ Of late her mind has been weighed on heavily in many respects...but she has also had spaces of calm that really would more accurately be called numbness.

This post has happened during one of those, for better or for worse, and some of her delayed reaction is of course her own thoughts and words getting tangled up in themselves, each version of 'wait what?!' vying for its first chair space. ]

peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:46:39 UTC

[ ...then she checks the network. Because they haven't the foundation for this and logically she knows that as appealing as a man who has to stay clean is, they don't know each other. You can't love someone you don't know, right? ...well, she tries not think of Will here, for all the things she does know, because there is every likelihood there are a dozen she doesn't, or didn't, rather. Anyway, such a nice, clean place on the beach. It will be nice to visit after he's been returned to his normal self, if the offer is still there.

And affirmative, the network check says it's a curse after all, of course. Such spontaneous feelings...well she doesn't expect them from Chase at least, certainly.]

audio ][ peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:47:42 UTC

That is....very...

[ Nice?....wow somehow that doesn't seem...like the right answer even if she's still refusing. ]

Um.

audio ][ peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:48:36 UTC

I mean....that must have taken you a long time. It looks lovely.

[ That's true, okay.

Oh but about the I love you part... ]

audio ][ peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:50:24 UTC

And the number seven is very nice.

[ ....second to last in her string of reaction...but she pauses here...and said pause is quite pronounced. ]

audio ][ peopletalktome August 17 2010, 03:51:50 UTC

You...stopped by the...ah...church?

[ And in the end she just skips right over those time-invested footprints... well, while she can anyway. ]

I haven't been there myself. Yet.

audio ][ 1/2 worksmart August 17 2010, 04:15:35 UTC

You like sevens? [He's just going to file this away with the... surprising lack of information he has about what things might please her.] It's funny, I thought you might have a thing about evens. You know seven is symbolic across more faiths and cultures than any other number? And now most people couldn't tell you why they think it's lucky. Millennia of history and mysticism boiled down into stone skipping.

[He's talking too much, which is a sure sign of nerves (the alternative being to clam up which would do him no good right now) but, Emma, no comment, really?]

audio ][ worksmart August 17 2010, 04:23:40 UTC

[Well except for the church part, which makes him more shuffly and awkward still. But hopeful. Ridiculously hopeful, or he'd never have gone.]

There's no clergy, at the church, couldn't speak to anyone. I just took up space for a while, um.

[Stopping for breath before he stutters over his words.]

I was taught that you have to give of yourself before you ask for anything. And I've been asking without really thinking about it, so I... wanted to... I thought it was time.

audio ][ 1/3 peopletalktome August 17 2010, 04:30:39 UTC

[ She just pauses for a very long time. Understandably, he's cursed and no amount of naysaying is going to tell him otherwise, much less convince him of it. ]

I like my things in evens. My superstitions are...a bit...well...I'm pretty sure they're founded in um eight year-old...logic. If you can even call it that.

Uh.

audio ][ peopletalktome August 17 2010, 04:35:06 UTC

That's true, I mean, not just with a choice of faith, which is...you know, different for...different for everyone, of course, but...that...

Well I just...it definitely can apply to other things too, a sort of you get what you give...take.

[ Except that...that is not always true, and she knows that too. ]

Anyway...I...um...

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