Crystal Voice to All!

[hellofishies]

[ Arkady's voice has a slightly Cockney accent to it and when she speaks she sounds chipper enough. Perhaps a bit too chipper given the circumstances, but that was just the way she was. Pretending to be happy when everything inside was the opposite always just seemed easier to her. ]

'ello everyone! I had something that I thought maybe might be important to tell people. Or two somethings! I think there were three but one got lost. If I find it, I'll tell everyone again. [ She pauses for a second and then continues on ]

I tried to look out as far as I could see but when I got to the mist it just stops. It goes and goes and then there's the mist and it just... ends. [ And it really didn't feel good to feel like she was falling off the entire world. Her voice is a bit more quiet when she speaks again. ] Just like back home...[ she trails off for a second and then comes back with a more clear sounding voice. ] Something very big and very powerful would have had to happen to just make things be nothing. But what...?

[ There's another brief pause before she starts up again. ]

And also the people here! Their memories all jigsaw-y. Fragmented pieces that aren't completely put together. I don't know what it means yet. Or why. Maybe they were put together from something else? Maybe they're not from here either? Or maybe they're not real. They don't feel like the not real people where I was last. They were robo-people and they were very bad. They hurt to touch though and these people don't feel like that.

I just thought I'd share!

[ And that is where she almost ends things. But at the last second she adds something else: ]

I got a lot of fishies to cook! I'll be making things in the blue building if anyone wants to try them!

Comments

[tapestryoftime]

It did... I didn't like it. It feels wrong somehow.

I couldn't see what did it... could you?

[hellofishies]

No. It's a blank. Dark. Like something might be stopping us from seeing it?

[tapestryoftime]

Maybe. I have only had this happen once before and...

[Her voice softens.]

It caused my father's death. It doesn't make me comfortable.

[hellofishies]

Oh. I'm sorry. [ She pauses. ] What happened?

[tapestryoftime]

I'm still not sure.

There was a druid... um... one of the male gods of the Creation. I saw him but not his intent. My brother and father were uncertain and went out to meet him. My father was a powerful reader and once he got a sense of the man, he told my brother to flee.

My brother made it back to the Caravan but my father did not. Something has blocked that man so I do not know what truly happened. I don't know who can hide from those who peer into time.

[hellofishies]

Oh. I'm sorry...at least he got your brother to safety. [ A small consolation maybe? ] It's frustrating when you feel like you should see but you can't. [ She knows that all too well. ]

[tapestryoftime]

It is.

I wish my brother was here with me now.

I haven't... things haven't been well. Not awful. Not as bad as they could have be because... [Because she found Jagger.]

[hellofishies]

I understand. [ There were people she wished were here too, very badly. ] Because why?

[tapestryoftime]

Um... [Syeira shifts awkwardly, the fabric of her skirts soft rustling through the ear piece.] I met someone here. Someone who I believe can help me and... I like him. He makes me feel safe.

[hellofishies]

Oh! It's good to have someone like that. I met someone like that in the last place I was at. I was worried he wouldn't be here too, but he is.

[tapestryoftime]

Really? Well, his name is Jagger and he's from my world but a different place and time. Our threads intertwined but it hadn't happened yet. He's quiet but he's wonderful.

[She's never gotten to talk about a boy before. It's not like she can talk about this with her older brother.]

Do you mind if I ask who is it? Maybe I've met them? I'd like to be friends. It's very... lonely here sometimes.

[hellofishies]

It seems like he has a lot. [ weighing on him she means ]

His name is Vincent. He's quite too. Thinks too much then keeps it all inside.

[tapestryoftime]

He does. I hope I can make it easier...

[Her voice softens.]

I really want to make it easier for him.

[She pauses and attempts to recall the name.]

I will try and meet him. [She smiles.] I'm glad that you two have each other here. It's good to have people you're close too and comfortable with.

[hellofishies]

It is very nice. I'm glad he wasn't left in the place we were before.

[tapestryoftime]

Oh? Where was that?

[hellofishies]

A very bad city with the Head. He said he brought us there to have us help with the City but he really just wanted to copy us.

[tapestryoftime]

A head? Do cities usually have heads?

[That sounds... very strange.]

I'm sorry. That sounds upsetting.

[hellofishies]

This city did. He was an AI that was left after a lot of people died of a plague.

[tapestryoftime]

That sounds like it's very lonely.

...not that it's an excuse but many he didn't want to be alone anymore.

[hellofishies]

I wondered that too. I was brought here before I had a chance to find out though.

[tapestryoftime]

Well, then... let's give them the benefit of the doubt and live here.

It's all that can be done.