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[The camera doesn't show anything but blue for a moment, then you see the mansion from above and a flash of something that looks like a giant dove. The camera is high up in the air, and the direction is clear. It comes from up and is headed down ...just that there is something in the way. A head, to be exact. Blond curls. The journal bounces off it and falls deeper, passing the face of a little girl that is stuck somewhere between fear, confusion, alertness and tiredness. Her eyes are hollow and smudged with purple rings, and one whole side of her face is a single bruise. And then there is only white cloth and the view of the mansion as the journal falls further and rotates.

It falls, and falls, and then you there are suddenly fingers around it and it is turned around to face the child from before. All you can see the arms that are full of burn marks and little wounds where needles have been inserted into her arms. There also is something that looks like an IV on her arm. If you look closer, you will see white feathers behind her back. Or maybe on her back.

She silently examines the journal, the little face tense, and after a few moments she switches on the audio.]


Max. Gazzy. Fang, Iggy, Nudge. Are you here?

Jeb. Was that you?

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Date: 2010-01-30 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Is it a test?

Jeb said that everything was a test.

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Date: 2010-01-31 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[She turns to face Angel, leaning back on the counter as she speaks.]

If it is, nobody's laid out any ground rules. Some of the brains in this joint are trying to figure out why we're here, but nobody's come up with any decent answers.

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Date: 2010-01-31 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
They never gave us any answers at the School, either.

[She gets distracted when she spots food, though, and runs over there to stuff some of the bread into her mouth before she speaks up again.]

But this place is much better than there.

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Date: 2010-01-31 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[Max likes this "school" less and less, though she pushes that aside with a smile when she sees Angel eagerly eating. Grabbing the glasses she'd taken out before, she heads over to the refrigerator.]

Easy there; wouldn't want ya choking or anything. What'll you have to drink? Water, milk, juice... I'm pretty sure we've got it all.

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Date: 2010-01-31 02:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Milk! [She remembers what Jeb told her - Jeb. What the other Max told her, and chews and swallows before she talks again.] Do they have cocoa?

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Date: 2010-01-31 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[Max has already reached into the fridge and grabbed a carton of milk when Angel asks after the cocoa.]

I think I saw some in the cupboard, yeah. Lemme guess: extra marshmallows.

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Date: 2010-01-31 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
[She nods eagerly and runs over to the cupboard and climbs it until she can reach the cocoa, then bring sit over to Max.]

Where are the marshmallows?

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Date: 2010-01-31 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[She smiles as she accepts the container of cocoa, feeling weirdly domestic. She hasn't really had the chance to mess around like this with someone in months. She gestures towards a set of cupboards as she begins searching for a kettle.]

Try somewhere over there. I never really looked for any, but it seems pretty logical that they wouldn't be far from the cocoa.

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Date: 2010-01-31 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
[Angel nods and hurries back to the nearest cupboard, starting to search it.]

I love cocoa with marshmallows! And popcorn. Sometimes we have popcorn for breakfast because there are no adults who could tell us not to do it... At least there were none. I don't think that we can go back to our house now, they might already have found it.

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Date: 2010-01-31 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[She goes about making the cocoa as she speaks.]

Plenty of adults where I come from. Just... none of them really care about what they eat. More important things on our minds, I guess. Besides, good food's pretty scarce over there these days.

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Date: 2010-01-31 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Why don't you have much food? Norma people too?

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Date: 2010-01-31 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
We're... kinda holed up away from the rest of the world. If you wanted to get technical, we're pretty much scavengers, fighting for everything we've got. It's not as bad in the rest of the world, though it's still tough to live out there unless you happen to be filthy rich.

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Date: 2010-02-04 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
What happened to your world?

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Date: 2010-02-04 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
It pretty much ended. At least, in the way the average 21st-century person thinks of the world. A terrorist attack pretty much knocked out most of America's tech, so we've been slowly rebuilding. It was a hit to our pride, since we're not used to being a third-world country, but hey... we're surviving, I guess.

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Date: 2010-02-04 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
And there are still scientists despite all of that?

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Date: 2010-02-05 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[She speaks a bit bitterly.]

There'll always be scientists. So long as there's stuff in the world that people got no business knowing, they'll always be there, poking at things they shouldn't.

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Date: 2010-02-05 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
And hurting others.

[She hops onto the counter next to where Max stands, holding out the marshmallows.]

How is the cocoa?

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Date: 2010-02-06 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[Trying not to think about the first thing Angel said, Max takes the marshmallows from her with a grin, motioning towards a cupboard just above her.]

I think we're almost in business. I took out some glasses, but grab me a couple of mugs. Those tend to go better with warm drinks, am I right?

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Date: 2010-02-06 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Sounds great!

[She laughs] I really missed hot cocoa, nearly as much as flying and the others.

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Date: 2010-02-07 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
Yeah? I never had much of it after the Pulse. I had a friend who could get some rare stuff sometimes, but I usually opted for pricier things than cocoa.

[She checks the kettle as she asks:]

How long's it been since your last cup?

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Date: 2010-02-07 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
[She thinks for a moment an then shakes her head.]

I don't know. I have no idea how long I slept, and then I never got out of the building or near a window to see night and day. But ever since they kidnapped me back to the school.

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Date: 2010-02-08 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[Max looks at Angel, frowning a little. It's a long time before she says anything, finally turning to look at Angel full-on.]

It ain't like that here. Bad things happen, yeah, but I don't let bad things happen to my friends if I can help it. And I like to think that anybody I share cocoa with is a friend, right?

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Date: 2010-02-08 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
You're nice.

[She isn't one to trust others easily, not at all, but being a mind reader makes it easier for her than for the others to do that, and Max doesn't act as creepy as most adults do.]

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Date: 2010-02-08 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[Max smirks at that. That's the good thing about kids; they were a lot more straightforward than most adults.]

You ain't so bad yourself. Now hand me a couple of mugs so we can get to dunking these marshmallows in some chocolate.

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Date: 2010-02-08 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
[Does as she is told, watching the woman while she's preparing the cocoa.]

I can have as many as I want, right?

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