hadriel | I'm Just A Soul Whose Intentions Are Good

[The first thing is that the phone has been propped between two branches on a tree in the orchard. Ushahin needs both hands for the task at hand. He's trying to peel a piece of fruit that has a bright purple skin on it. The problem is that if he tries to use his good hand to peel, his bad one can't hold onto it firmly enough, so it falls. If he tries to use his bad hand to peel while his good hand holds, his crippled fingers don't have enough force to break the skin. He'll be trying both methods alternately as he speaks in his usual soft tone.]

I was thinking tonight. A dangerous pastime, to be certain, but what I was thinking was this. How many of us who have been brought here are good? [He pauses, trying to get his nails under the skin, and he fails.]

I would ask how many of you here think you are a good person but-- [And there goes the fruit again, falling out of his bad left hand. He sighs and picks it back up.] --I don't think many of us have that high of a opinion of ourselves. I know I don't. [He's shattered too many minds and killed far too many people to think he's still got a soul anywhere close to being pure.]

So I will ask this. How many of you think those who are here with you are good people? Your family and friends, how many of them are good souls? [The fruit slips from his grasp once again.]

Damn. [He's given up trying to do this the nice, neat way. He ends the video by using his good hand for support, then biting down into the peel, and using his teeth to tear it partially off. It's not the most dignified method of being able to peel the fruit, but at this point, he's too stubborn to give up.]

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Oh? Name me one that you have talked to.

[He's polished off the first fruit, long as it took him to do so, and is starting on a second. He's clearly struggling just as much as he did the first time around.]

Never you mind about me. I've learned how to use my hands as best I can.

[He won't say no if help is offered, but Ushahin is far too proud to just ask. Sometimes, he wishes Satoris had healed both of his hands instead of just the one. However, considering the pain he had gone through, perhaps it was just as well he'd done the one.]

Well, there's Papyrus. He's, uhm, he's always b-been good.

[Nobody would deny Papyrus is good. He's practically the best guy she's ever known.]

But uhm, if you're okay with it, I mean, uh, I have a lot of experience building, uh, robots and stuff, and uh, limbs? I mean, not that I'm saying, like, r-replace your hand or whatever, but uh, I'm supposed to be getting hope for uh, that Hope guy? But I mean, I'd want to h-help anyway! If I can, and... stuff...

[Well, that derailed incredibly quickly.]

I will agree with you there. He is an exceptional soul in the cesspit this city sometimes seems to be.

[Is she...offering him help? He thinks so, but between the backtracking, it's a little hard to tell. Still, that's far nicer than most would offer him, assuming she just isn't offering out of pity.]

I don't have much experience with robots-- [Save Nick, but all he managed to do was confuse the half-man.] --but if you build me something, I would not say no. It is a dreadful thing to have a hand like this. [He holds it up close to the camera. It's clear just how bad he's off, for not a single finger is straight, and the whole hand has a gnarled look to it, like a tree branch that's warped. It is even more ill-knit than his face and that's saying something.]

Yeah. Papyrus is g-great.

[At least everybody can agree on that. But she does squint a bit through the communicator, trying to asses the situation.]

Well, uh, it'd p-probably be really complicated to build an entirely new hand. Especially since, uhm, y-you'd probably have to cut that one off? And I don't think you'd, uhm, want to do that? But, uh... if you're having trouble, uhm, moving them, it'd probably be possible to make an attachment that could increase grip strength and, uh, f-functionality? If it gripped to your wrist and then attached with sensors... er, provided the parts, uhm, exist. And I don't completely m-mess it up.

I'm not sure I understand entirely what you are talking about-- [He's from a medieval world. Phones he can understand, at least in a limited fashion, but a device that would help his hand is a bit beyond his understanding.] --but I thank you for thinking of me at all. That is a kindness I much appreciate.

[He's not use to people being kind at all, so he tends to remember them most earnestly.]

Well, uhm-- I'll s-see what I can do! I mean, you k-know, if I'm gonna be stuck here anyway, and I can find the materials, and, uh... stuff.

[If she's going to be stuck here, and she has an area of expertise... she might as well try to use it. Robotics are easy! And at least, uhm, probably won't go as wrong as her last project. Probably.]

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

[He smiles and it lights up his whole shattered face. He has decided he likes this strange little lizard monster, despite her jitters.]

Okay! I'll, uhm, let you k-know! When, uh, things are, close to done? Or uhm, stuff. Yeah.

T-Talk to you soon!

[God, he's smiling and she has no idea what to do with it. How is it that people actually come around to liking her? They're just going to be disappointed eventually, she tells herself. But for now...

Maybe she can help. Just a little. And if it works, it will be worth something.]

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