asobouyo | 34th Teddy Bear [Voice]

[An hour or so after bed, Elicia hears something creak. It's harmless and probably something like a tree scratching something, or a mouse finding its way. But it sparks a barrage of images within this small child's brain that would probably make a therapist shake their heads. Things like floating objects and scary figures and things under her bed oh god. Acute paranoia tonight, this one. So she speaks in a really low whisper as though she's on a secret mission, hidden up to her ears in blanket. Must be a nice windy winter night.]

Um....

Are ghosts real? They aren't, right? But—But I guess good ghosts are okay! Do those count? Are they real either?

[Her eyes dart from one side of the room to the other, and she's totally expecting something scary to happen on one side or the other. Any minute now. No, no, be brave, there's nothing going on. Nothing at aaaaall. ;~;

Gulp.]

Oh! New Feathers are here, too... huh...

I'm Elicia, and I'm six years o—

[rustle rustle]

Meep!

[...And back under the sheets. Yup.]

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Tor-tu-ga? What's that place like?

Ah. Erm. Tortuga? It was...a very worldly little town. Sailors from ports of call all across the world; pirates, mostly. Lots of...

[Rum ale whores whorehouses taverns doxies skullduggery confidence men criminals murderers drunken brawls smugglers resurrection men...]

...activities.

Whoa, s-so it was kinda' like... a pirate island?

KIND of? Kind of? It was a pirate port, tiny cabin girl! And unless you were up to no-good pirating enterprises, you steered right clear of it!

... Cabin girl?

[You've lost me.]

Cabin girl is the first job a lady pirate ever has! [He takes this tangent from Spinning Jenny and runs with it:] If she ever hopes to be a great pirate captain one day, she's got to start at the bottom rung of the ladder.

[Please don't say you want to join the Navy, Elicia. Everyone else is. Even Elizabeth, damn it.]

Really? Then... if I'm really good at being a cabin girl, I'll get to be a pirate someday? A real pirate??

Aye! A REAL one! You've just got to keep plugging at it, is all. Be smarter and cannier than all the other cabin girls.

I'll be really smart! I'll be a great pirate in no time! I'll even find me my own boat!

Erm......a little one. Start with a little one.

A little one? But... is that any fun?

Of COURSE it's fun! Why would it not be fun! It's extraordinarily fun!

But if it's a tiny boat, it won't be as tough, will it? How can I fight giant octopusses in a little boat?!

It's all a matter of scale, isn't it? Even the smallest octopus will be a giant ravening beast beside a little boat. Possibly I could talk Fabio into some kind of battle...

I guess you're right...

Who's Fabio?

Fabio's a rather lovely octopus. He's possibly bored right now and would enjoy a bit of a change.

You're friends with a ghost and a octopus??

[jack sparrow how have you even acquired such friendship]

Friends is perhaps too strong a word. "Comrades"? "Co-conspirators"? He lives in exile, now, after all. Enemy of the state and dead octopus swimming and all that.

What's a con-spirit-or?

[WAIT i think i got it--]

Is that someone who can talk to dead people?

.........Depends on the sort of conspirator you're dealing with. You can ask him that when you meet him; how's that?

[Yeah, THAT will go over well with Fabio, who is mostly taciturn and grumpy and resigned to his lot in life.]

Alright! I'll ask him!

... But octopuses don't have journals, do they?

No, they do not. You'll have to visit him at Mistress Raine's house. He lives in a tank there.

Really?! Miss Raine has a pet octopus??

That's sooo cooool!!

He's not so much a pet as a political exile, actually.

[Don't tell Fabio he's a pet, Elicia. It will rub salt in his still-wounded sense of personal, social, and political autonomy.]

.... What's that?

[Yeah, I don't know what politics or exiles are.]

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