Forty-Seventh Theory [Voice]

[i_speak_softly]

Filtered to Doc McCoy || Unhackable

Um. About my brother's cat.

[Once that unpleasantness is over, Don will go sit up on the roof for a few hours, in the rain and in view of the river, meditating. He made contact with Sona last week at the hot springs, and is now trying to learn what she has to teach.]

[Later, inside, he'll open his journal and put a question to the village at large.]

Filtered from Shredder and Karai || Unhackable

I've heard some people are trying to build ships. Are any of them likely to be seaworthy by the end of the summer?

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[i_speak_softly]

Captain.

[all7seas]

A ladder, sir. Why is this so unfathomable to you? Are you not a marine-going creature?!

[i_speak_softly]

[A long silence, before he resigns himself to a little truth.]

I'm a pond turtle and I've never been to the ocean.

[all7seas]

.......Smart Turtle. Never? Never ever?

[i_speak_softly]

I don't think I ever made it further than the Sound.

[all7seas]

I trust you'll journey to our sea when you've a chance, eh? You and your.......not-wench. Lots of folks have come down for a bit of a holiday.

[Jack feels as though he has....completely misjudged you for a worldly-watery fellow, Donatello.]

[i_speak_softly]

I'm - hoping to get out there soon.

[He spent a lot of time last week sitting at the bottom of a lake. Does that count?]

[all7seas]

[......No. That's just weird.]

Ah. A lark, is it? Or business?

[i_speak_softly]

What do you mean?

[all7seas]

What I mean is, do you deep in your potentially-green little heart yearn for and or desire to see the wide yet enbarriered expanse of the Lucetian sea? Or are you plotting matters of business? Or do you not know?

[i_speak_softly]

Um... both, I guess.

[Testing a new invention counts as 'business', right?]

[all7seas]

Mmmhmmm. Well, you'd best take care out on the wild ocean, lad. There's dangers out here and make no mistake.

[i_speak_softly]

[Oh, he can't resist.] Seen any giant octopuses, Captain?

[all7seas]

Actually.............I have.

[And it's TRUE. One attacked Keimi and Hellboy like tore the thing open on the deck of the Joanna Joyce and bashed a big hole in it and there was blood and octopus guts and all kinds of TROUBLE.]

But it didn't fling me anyplace, this time.

[i_speak_softly]

[Too bad he doesn't believe you.]

Lucky break. I'll see you around, Captain.

[all7seas]

Erm------right. See you, I suppose, should you ever make your way out here. Adieu, Sad and Smart Turtle.