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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.

[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?

| video.

[enchangement]

It's yours. You write recipes to pass down, like steps on the ladders of generations, so that something is remembered. It's yours even if she wrote it.

Yes.

| video.

[meatbrained]

( that's a nice way of putting it. he likes the way you put things in general, River. even if it's been rewritten time and time again for legibility after decades of being read, some of those recipes are a few generations old. )

Is there somewhere we can meet?