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((From nearby, but perhaps out an open window, there is the noise of crowds, of voices, of people milling around and calling out and running and carrying on--the sounds of a busy street, but busier than usual... Maria's voice comes over this sound--perhaps she's leaning out of a window, watching, while recording this--be ( Read more... )

Maria was not allowed on the Network at all for all day yesterday. Angela said so, so Maria was not on the Network at all for all day yesterday. Maria could not even use the Network to say that she could not use the Network ( Read more... )

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((And, immediately, there is a great sound of the trees letting fall their dry rain, a rushing sound, the sound of hundreds and thousands of leaves of every shape and color and species, falling. And, in the midst of it, the sound of a pair of very small feet in very small red shoes sloshing their way through this ocean of ( Read more... )

Maria knows a very funny joke too!

How many Marias does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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Only one because that is how many Marias there are!

[ooc: Have you ever noticed how little kids will make up and laugh at the stupidest jokes ever? Okay. Proof positive here. Also, text post, for the record.]

Dear Mama ( Read more... )

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((It's quiet--quiet as the City ever is, but quieter than it was this weekend. A few passing animal sounds, though, in the background: cats, a dog--all friendly and coming to see what Maria is doing with her Network device, perhaps. After a moment, Maria speaks, giggling at first, as excited children are wont to do:)) ( Read more... )

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[The image appears out of shadows as the Network device's owner moves her fingers away: it's Maria, very carefully setting up her Network device next to her so it can record her. She smiles at it a little and says nothing--in fact, with a finger to her lips, she hushes the machine ( Read more... )

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((It's very quiet. Perhaps, gently, there's the sound of a little purring, a few tiny meows. It takes Maria a little while to speak, as though she's not certain that she should at all...))Maria has waited a really, really long time for Mister Nekozawa, uuu ( Read more... )

My beloved hometown, the sweetfish river running through it ( Read more... )

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((It's quiet, but not so quiet. In the distance, in the background, as though heard through glass and plaster and brick and walls, are cries and shouts--human and otherwise. Before she speaks, Maria takes a long, deep, shaky breath. She's afraid, but also not afraid:))Maria...Maria has made a lot of Pentacles, uuu ( Read more... )