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thehometree2015-03-21 12:15 pm
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| characters | Bucky and you.
| date/time | Thursday afternoon.
| location | Around
| rating | G.
| summary | The best way to greet your neighbours is to feed them.
| note | I wrote in prose but feel free to use brackets.
He falls asleep instantly on the moss bed, the smell of it familiar and steadying. Combat lends sleep of no restful kind but he barely dreams at all, waking up as soon as the first ray of light peers through the window. There's a moment of bewilderment, and then reality introduces itself to him all over again as he notices the wings are still there when he picks up his gem. He flattens them self-consciously, before finally deciding they take up too much space and leaves the gem carefully tucked under his pillow.
Breakfast, however, is the immediate problem. He saved some water from the rains and an edible mushroom, and it's boiling away merrily on the stove. The glow worm is unusually cooperative, but Bucky supposes that if he's now the size of a dragonfly it's not the weirdest thing in the world.
It's actually nice. He could get used to it.
Once the worm's been sent off with an appreciative scratch on the head, he picks up the large bowl of stew and starts knocking on a few doors.
'Hello?'
| date/time | Thursday afternoon.
| location | Around
| rating | G.
| summary | The best way to greet your neighbours is to feed them.
| note | I wrote in prose but feel free to use brackets.
He falls asleep instantly on the moss bed, the smell of it familiar and steadying. Combat lends sleep of no restful kind but he barely dreams at all, waking up as soon as the first ray of light peers through the window. There's a moment of bewilderment, and then reality introduces itself to him all over again as he notices the wings are still there when he picks up his gem. He flattens them self-consciously, before finally deciding they take up too much space and leaves the gem carefully tucked under his pillow.
Breakfast, however, is the immediate problem. He saved some water from the rains and an edible mushroom, and it's boiling away merrily on the stove. The glow worm is unusually cooperative, but Bucky supposes that if he's now the size of a dragonfly it's not the weirdest thing in the world.
It's actually nice. He could get used to it.
Once the worm's been sent off with an appreciative scratch on the head, he picks up the large bowl of stew and starts knocking on a few doors.
'Hello?'
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Wyrden looks confused for a moment, before she realizes that this man is probably from an earlier time. An time where nations could afford not to fight. ]
Uh... bit of a long story. Fighting's a normal part of life, where I come from. You could say the war's been going on for ever. As far as anyone can remember.
[ Longer than centuries, longer than millennia, even. Once humanity reached the stasis point where resource consumption equalled resource regeneration, it stagnated. ]
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Sorry to hear that. Maybe one day it'll be over.
[ But he's not holding his breath. The world's cruel. ]
I'm from World War Two, don't suppose that means anything to you?
[ Because if that's his future, he's very glad he's dead. ]
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We're working on that. There is hope, but it needs hard work to make it a reality.
[ The Casket had been one way. Now she only needed to bide her time until Simeon is ready to launch the assault for On High. What other grand plans that man had, she did not know. ]
No. sorry. [ A frown, and then: ] Which year?
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1945...?
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Are you using the old calendar? It'd be about a million years, maybe even more.
[ It was 1002014, the last time she remembered. ]
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[ It's out before he can stop it, and then he remembers to close his jaw. ]
Wow.
[ A million years. That's one way to meet the future. ]
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Yeah. It's... not easy, honestly. [ She tilts her head, examining something on her hand for a moment before continuing. ] America, Asia, those names - they're of the old world, right? It's almost been forgotten completely.
[ The old world, when resources were still plentiful... It's something that her people can only envision in dreams. ]
I'm from Tokyo. It's the one name that's left, I think. [ Simeon skipped that part while telling her about the past, and the databases only had Japanese names. ] We don't live in nations anymore, only Panopticons. There aren't enough resources to go around anymore, so all the fighting's involved in taking them.
[ It's a dog eat dog world. ]
We get by, but once in a while Abductors from On High come to steal and pillage. That's when most of the fighting is. [ And most of the casualties, too. ]
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Nobody besides a few folks are fighting 'em?
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See, there are two classes of people. The Citizens, people with brains, and the Sinners, who are the brawn. Sinners fight to protect Citizens, and Citizens work to keep our Panopticon running.
[ Citizens are valuable resources, after all. She imagines their life can't be easy either. ]
I'm one of the latter. Usually we can wreck a good part of their raider machines, but not all of them. [ And it's a sort of counter-current thing, given that they did make use of whatever ruined parts they could salvage. ]
They've been coming less often, though. [ Maybe that's a good thing... but it also meant that the Dionae would be razing some other poor Panopticon more often. It's just how things are. ]
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If you want, you could share what them raiders look like and we'll figure somethin' out.
[ Tech a million years in the future can still be broken or compromised. That's one thing he's sure will never change. ]
Anyway. You want some soup?
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[ Ah yes, soup. ]
Well... if you'd insist, then I have some bread to contribute.
[ It's wrapped up in a leaf by the bedside table. Wyrden had been lucky enough to get a whole room to herself... but only by virtue of no one being comfortable enough to sleep under Ramiel's constant scruitinity. ]
Thanks.
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[ 1945 is a long way from her time, after all. ]
Bread would be great, thanks. When's the last time you had anything that wasn't rations?
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I can't remember. [ Though it isn't quite due to the reason she had in mind. ] Sorry. I lost my memory about a year ago. [ And she says it as if it isn't a big deal at all.
But anyway. She goes over to retrieve the bread, setting it on the shelf where the soup was. ]
D'you eat bread in small or large pieces?
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[ He only masks his alarm because she seems nonchalant about it. Bucky's never been able to look at a wound and not want to stitch it shut, but it'd feel.. imposing when the other person doesn't even think of it that way. So instead he stands and pulls out a chair for her. ]
There's a way to get your memories back, or they're all gone?
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All gone. [ Still the same flat tone as ever. ] Even if they'd develop some sort of medication for that, it'd be for the Citizens. I'm not eligible yet.
[ Only about five hundred thousand years left to go. ]
... I'm not sure if it would even be good to remember it, anyway. I don't know what it is anymore.
[ It'd better not be something that gets in the way of her work. ]