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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: 2010-02-13 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
People often think that I'm eight or nine. They never believe my real age.

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Date: 2010-02-14 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[She takes a sip of her cocoa, looking down absently.]

Yeah, well... people like us, who've seen more things than they should, we always look like they've got a few extra years on us.

[Trying to look pleasant, she glances up at Angel with a smirk.]

Besides, you're pretty tall for your age.

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Date: 2010-02-14 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
We're all tall for our age, us birdkids, I mean. I'm not sure how tall the others are, and Ereasers just grow old really fast. Maybe because of our bones.

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Date: 2010-02-14 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
I'm guessing it's probably convenient to hardwire accelerated aging to get past the kiddie level as quick as possible. Sounds like they don't really care much for cultivating healthy childhoods.

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Date: 2010-02-14 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
They say that children are easier to control.

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Date: 2010-02-14 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
Figures.

[Despite the bitterness of the comment, she tries to look at Angel with a smile.]

How's the cocoa?

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Date: 2010-02-14 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Good!

[More marshmallos than cocoa in it but who cares.]

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Date: 2010-02-14 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[She smirks a bit.]

Good. Once we're done here, we can set you up with a room, if that's cool with you.

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Date: 2010-02-15 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
I want a room on the top floor!

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Date: 2010-02-16 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[That makes her laugh.]

Oh, well, you're in luck. I happen to live up there myself, and I know we've got plenty of empty rooms up there.

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Date: 2010-02-17 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Our house in the mountains was on a relaly high place, too, you could hardly get there without wings and even if we would have seen everyone come from afar.

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Date: 2010-02-17 07:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
Yeah, I kinda had my own high place too, back home. For a while, anyway. It was the only place where I could look down at the city and think that maybe, just maybe, I ain't too different from the rest of them. It was nice.

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Date: 2010-02-17 07:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
It sounds like a nice place.

...I guess all of us dream of how it would be to be normal. The flock does. I know that they do. Especially Nudge ...I don't want to lose them.

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Date: 2010-02-17 07:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
You're not. I'm sure that wherever they are, you'll find 'em soon. Or maybe they'll find you. A few people seem to have a bit of luck when it comes to stumbling across their friends here.

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Date: 2010-02-17 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
Nudge might love this place. Iggy might flip. They did some experiments to enhance his eyesight and now he's blind, and this place is huge, it would take him a long time to figure out where things are.

...Plus there are a lot of people. It makes all of us nervous, but he can't see things that they rearranged.

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Date: 2010-02-17 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
So long as Iggy doesn't go exploring, I don't think he'd have much to worry about. He'll stick close to his crew and things will sort themselves out in his brain before long. As for the people... usually, if you don't bother them, they won't bother you.

[She pauses for a moment, thinking about the experiment that left Iggy blind.]

Scientists really oughta learn that if it ain't broke, you don't try to fix it.

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Date: 2010-02-17 08:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
He usually does that... some things might be blown up soon if he did that, though. Him and Gazzy like blowing things up.

[She grins]

I'm sure they would like endless supplies of any kind.

[She only nods at Max's last words, there really isn't much to add.]

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Date: 2010-02-17 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
Well, this would be a good place to go blowing stuff up. The crib just seems to keep pulling itself back together. Me and a few others fired out a bunch of explosives and fireworks through a hole in the roof during a blizzard a couple of months back; ain't even so much as a water stain up there now.

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Date: 2010-02-17 09:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
[Max shrugs.]

Magic. Invisible carpenters. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Date: 2010-02-17 09:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
...Does it bring back people too?

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Date: 2010-02-17 09:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
That depends on what you mean by bringing people back.

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Date: 2010-02-17 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
If they die, are they brought back to life?

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Date: 2010-02-18 04:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manticorean.livejournal.com
Yeah. Yeah, we've had a few instances of that going around. That doesn't make the dying any easier, though.

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Date: 2010-02-18 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talks-to-fish.livejournal.com
[Angel puts her arms around her tiny body, hugging herself, suddenly looking exactly her age.]

This is just another test, isn't it? An experiment, just on a larger scale.

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