001 - video - is this thing on?

[64th]

[ Cash knows how these network type things work, so she is feeling pretty smart right about now. when the video comes on, you can see she's holding the phone at arms length. she fixes her hair first, and then smiles. ]

Well, if I've got one of these, I'm sure the rest of you do too. Assuming you didn't get eaten by a bear. [ ha ha? ]

I'm Cashmere. Who are you? Where are you?

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[64th]

[ sweet shaky cam, new friend. she won't judge since she's made a video or three in the past that looked the same. ]

The last place I was had something similar. They were bigger than these little things, though. We could use them to talk to each other. So far, these are the same. Mostly.

[dragonbite]

[ How kind of her. Not that it would have bothered Vaiz even if she did judge him. ]

Oh. It did? How do they work? Magic?

[64th]

[ how do they work? beats her. Cashmere shrugs. ] Kind of like television, I think.

[dragonbite]

[ ......? ] Television? Is that some kind of special vision? [ So, magic? ]

[64th]

No.

[ but how to explain it? ] It's a kind of technology that lets you see people from very far away. At home, the government uses it to tell us whatever it might be they want us to know.

[dragonbite]

Technology.. [ Like that little guy's mom? She was a built thing, right? With a mind, or... something. He doesn't know the details and he has never bothered looking into them. ] Ah, so it's not magic, then.

[64th]

No. [ she says it confidently but she has no idea. maybe it is magic. she didn't believe in magic until recently and even now she's skeptical. ] You don't have television? Or phones?

[dragonbite]

[ If she sounds confident he'll think she is confident, so no problem. ]

No, we don't.

[64th]

Hmm. [ weird. ] Does your government have them?

[dragonbite]

Government...? [ His country is ruled by a king... ] No.

[64th]

[ still weird. ]

Well I'm sure you'll figure it out.

[dragonbite]

You are?

[64th]

[ no. ]

Well, what else are you going to do with your free time?

[dragonbite]

[ How cruel. ]

Aaah... [ He considers the question. ] Find candy.

[64th]

[ ??? ]

Candy. You could do anything and you'd try to find candy?

[dragonbite]

I need sugar or I don't have any energy.

[ Even though it seems like he doesn't have any energy either way. ]

[64th]

Like a hummingbird?

[dragonbite]

....hummingbirds needs sugar?

[64th]

It's the only thing they eat.

[dragonbite]

It is? Cool. They can't have my candy.