Sixty-Fourth Theory [Action/Voice]

[i_speak_softly]

((First part is backdated to yesterday, November 10.))

[Would it really be so difficult for John's droids to just bring Don home?]

[Apparently, because they instead leave him in a side room of the barracks. On their way out, they drop his journal on the floor, just beyond his reach.]

[He can't feel his legs.]

[He woke up this way on John's table, and while part of his brain tried to assess the situation rationally and offer the mitigating factors that it's just for a week, thank goodness he didn't get this as his death loss, the rest of his brain was screaming too loudly to notice or care.]

[And now he's back in the village, half-paralyzed, still uncertain of his speech, and completely alone.]

[It takes a while, but he pulls himself together, drags himself a few feet across the floor, and painstakingly constructs a filter in the journal.]

Voice to Beast | Unhackable

Help. The barracks. Please...

[He closes the book when he's done. Beast won't get any reply from him through the journals, but will find him prone on the floor of the barracks, just wanting to go home.]



Voice for Everyone, November 11

[By the next day, Don has rediscovered his voice, and wants everyone else to hear it too. Being couchbound, he has nothing better to do than broadcast his every thought over the journal system.]

EVERYONE. Citizens, denizens, residents and inmates of our village of Luceti. Those of you who have just arrived, please find adequate shelter, because this is miserable weather to be out in. You're fortunate, though, to have missed our recent tornado. Also an infestation of ghosts and some messy business involving zombie viruses. Never a dull moment. I advise reading the guide, which can be found in your journal.

Those of you who are already jaded by such events, please entertain yourselves on this dreary day by suggesting a topic of interest: a fascinating subject, an intriguing project, or a hypothetical occurrence that you would find truly surprising. Jokes and stories are also welcome.

[He'll stop there. Finding words is still difficult and tiring, and like exercising any other faculty that hasn't been used in a while, he should take it slowly. Full recovery will come from patient practice, not from exhausting himself all at once.]


((Initial action is locked to Beast. Friends of Don are welcome to handwave hearing of his return and come visit, yesterday afternoon or any time during the week. Today's voice post is open to all.))

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[Video]

[i_speak_softly]

It's no trouble. [A pause, as though this thought just occurred to him.] There's a human here, but he's all right.

[Video]

[song_princess]

[She goes to smile even more.]

Then perhaps once I arrive, I can offer you a song. [She blinks at the mentioning of a beroc being there but the smile never fades.]

I see, if you say that he is alright Don-san then he must be so then.

[Video]

[i_speak_softly]

[A woman wants to sing for him? This day has just gotten somewhat better.]

I promise. He'll answer the door for you.

[Video] Shall we action this if Robert-mun wants to join or?

[song_princess]

[Its the least she can do since he is inviting her to his home.]

Where do you live, Don-san?

I shall do my best not to trouble either one of you during my stay.

[Video] He will jump in to answer the door

[i_speak_softly]

[... That's an interesting question.]

Are you planning to walk or fly?

[Video] Sounds like a plan!

[song_princess]

[She tilts her head.]

Fly, my legs are not quite strong as my wings.

[Video]

[i_speak_softly]

[Okay then. How to find his house from the air...]

Fly south along the river. My house is the fifth one on the east bank. The door faces the path.

[Video]

[song_princess]

That doesn't sound far. I will be there shortly, Don-san.

[And here she goes to shift into her Heron form and picks up the journal carefully with a Talon in case he wants to still speak with her during her flight over.]

[Video]

[i_speak_softly]

[The video stream that results from this is dizzying. Don doesn't usually get motion-sick, but he has to close the book.]

[Video -> Action]

[song_princess]

[It takes her quite a bit as she was still learning the layout of the village and the areas around it.

She shifts back into her normal form once she finds the house and goes to dust herself off first before softly knocking on the door.

Oh goddess, hopefully she is at the right house.]

[Action]

[semper_cogitans]

[Now who could that possibly be? Luckily for Leanne, Robert is perched, like the world's most awkward hawk, very near the door. As soon as that knock sounds itself, he's on it, swinging the door open.

He dips his head respectfully, albeit anxiously, and tries to smile - but really, he's very nervous. He hasn't been around many strangers recently, and suddenly they're all coming out of the woodworks.]

Ah... s-salutations. Don is... j-just inside...

[He gestures to the Turtle on the couch, who's likely visible from the doorway.]

[Action]

[i_speak_softly]

[Don waves, and waits for Leanne to come inside a little before making introductions.]

Robert, this is Princess Leanne Heron. Leanne, this is my - my partner, Robert Hastings.