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[enchangement]

[ The video starts zoomed in on a bowl, full of water, but the image reflected is oddly murky. River's finger appears from the top of the frame and gently rings around the edge with her fingertip. ]

Some things were found that belong but not to her.

[ The camera moves to a notebook full of detailed handwriting. River turns the pages rapidly, so it's difficult to determine just what the notes are for, but: ]

She could cook.

[ Another move to loose leaf pages written in strange symbol-like cryptograms. Some of it has side-by-side translations in Mandarin, but not all of it. ]

These are strange. Like a joke told in the dark in the wrong language.

[ Next to that there is a sketchbook with a pencil on it. Some of the drawings are River's, but some are not.

There's also a pocket stop watch and something else, something flesh colored and curved and somewhat small but River covers the lense at that one. ]

A device for counting and the part for listening, open, removed from the host.

Is it yours, here?

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[torrefied]

How did you end up with such a collection?

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[enchangement]

some were held by monsters
some she found while wandering
one was in her bed

perma for mister paranoid here

[torrefied]

You fought monsters for those things.

[River looks to Mello like she'd break in half if a monster looked at her.]

omg I lol'd

[enchangement]

She's a good fighter.

[ >:P ]

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[fadeling]

[It's very likely that this is only a video because he doesn't know how to make it do anything else. At least he's trying.]

Nothing changes if you change nothing. Sometimes the dark is more protection than prison. Whose voice is it?

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[enchangement]

Well. She drew on some of them.

[ The sketchbook pages. Anyway. River turns the camera to herself. ]

River.

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[fadeling]

Is she the one who spoke to the dark?

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[enchangement]

Sometimes.

She spoke to you before.

[text]

[hornrims]

The book isn't right.

[text]

[enchangement]

She made alterations
to the empty spaces
but left the others alone

[text]

[hornrims]

How do the alterations change the story?

[enchangement]

they don't
just offer a different perspective
inside versus out

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[feelslikeimspilling]

[ Will was simply curious. Or so, that's what he was telling himself as he picked up his device and spoke softly into it. ]

Like a Magpie. Sorting it's junkpile hoard of trinkets. Though not everything you've found is bright and shiny.

[ She was a curious girl. Will would find himself interested in things he saw or heard her doing, this was no exception to that. It looked as though she was trying to hide something and that drew his attention even more so. ]

voice;

[enchangement]

[ River laughs a little. ]

Albatross turned magpie. Yes. She can fly but here, she is grounded.

No. One was warm and soft and bleeding a little.

voice;

[feelslikeimspilling]

[ Well that's a good start, he's actually able to make someone else laugh. ]

Oh, I know all about being grounded. Same as having your wings clipped...

[ Oh well now, that's caught his full attention. she talks in riddles, cryptic most of the time, but this is something else. ]

... Bleeding?

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[enchangement]

Did you fly, back home? You try for fish in the river. [ How is that panning out? ]

An ear to hear with.

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[meatbrained]

( she could cook, plus the vague flashes of familiar layouts - of the diagrams and sketches his mom liked to draw makes him ask. )

Hey, can you show that notebook again?

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[enchangement]

[ So River does just that, showing the cover and then opening to a random page. ]

Dumplings.

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[meatbrained]

( it-

yeah. he thought so. )

That's. ( well, it's technically not his, but his mother isn't here. ) That's mine. Well, my mom's.

Can I come pick it up?

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[raptorcious]

That all looks like junk to me.

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[enchangement]

[ Have an unimpressed teenage girl expression. ]

Then it isn't yours.

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[raptorcious]

[As formidable as the expression is (because damn girl, do you practice that in the mirror or something?), Diego remains undeterred.]

And it's obviously not yours. So why do you have it?

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[skelebro]

[Shit. Well, that solves the mystery of some of those pages. He's got no clue what the Mandarin says, but hopefully she ain't translated much, but he ain't holdin' out on his luck there.]

Heya. Think you found some missin' pages of mine.

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[enchangement]

The stories with the symbols? The mathematics in between?

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[skelebro]

Those're the ones. Didn't, uh...read 'em, did ya?