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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

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.

[enchangement]

What are you?

[fadeling]

I'm me.

[enchangement]

Everyone is themselves.

[fadeling]

Not always. Sometimes they're different.

[enchangement]

When?

[fadeling]

When it hurts.

[enchangement]

[ Ah. This, she is familiar with. ]

True.

[fadeling]

Did it hurt her too?

[enchangement]

They did and she forgot who she was in little pieces but then her brother saved her again.

[fadeling]

Does it still hurt?

[enchangement]

Sometimes.

[fadeling]

I could help her forget if it does.

[enchangement]

No. She'd rather remember and forget in it's tidal turn.

[fadeling]

Is it better?

[enchangement]

It's not worse.

They took things away. It changed her, and forgetting would only leave that change without the context.

[fadeling]

I could try to tie the torn things.

It's alright. I won't touch.