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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?

Comments

Video

[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?

Video

[enchangement]

Well. She drew on some of them.

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

River.

Video

[fadeling]

Is she the one who spoke to the dark?

Video

[enchangement]

Sometimes.

She spoke to you before.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

Yes. I remember. [That's important.]

Why does she speak with shadows?

Video

[enchangement]

Sometimes they speak back.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

Does she listen?

Video

[enchangement]

She has no choice. The volume is on and the filters are gone.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

But does she listen?

Video

[enchangement]

She always listened. Even before, when it was quieter to hear.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

It might mean more if it's louder now.

Video

[enchangement]

People are afraid, when they realize what can be heard. She has tried to keep herself quiet.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

Why? You can't help if you don't hear.

Video

[enchangement]

People like their secrets.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

Secrets can save sometimes. But they hurt too.

Video

[enchangement]

Like poison turned to medicine.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

Yes. Knives hurt but they can heal too. Listening helps to know which it is.

Video

[enchangement]

You're a listener too. You talk like her, direct for the dreamer, images crafted syllable by syllable.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

Yes. I help people but I have to hear so I know how. Fade-things are dreams too since that's where the dreams are.

Video

[enchangement]

She would like to meet other dreams.

Re: Video

[fadeling]

The nightmares are there too. People don't like it so much.

[enchangement]

People don't like a lot of things.

[fadeling]

Neither do dreams.

[enchangement]

Is being a dream difficult?

[fadeling]

I don't know. I'm not a dream either.