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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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.]

If one man -- or puss, I suppose, in this case -- disagrees with the majority and has different visions of freedom for one particularly put-upon subsection of society what cannot speak for themselves -- in this case, mollusks -- and attempts to stand up for the subaltern, the MANY descend upon him and try to silence him. Threats of execution, and all that.

'S why he exiled himself to land, brave lad.

.... I don't understand any of that.

....His friends kicked him off the octopus playground.

[WHAT.]

B-but that's so mean! Nobody should have to get kicked off the playground!

I know, lass! 'S why I brought him to Mistress Raine, in the end!

I'm glad! Miss Raine is good at taking care of things.

You're really brave and cool for saving that poor octopus!!

[Unsolicited admiration? YES PLEASE.]

That, darling, is because I am Captain Jack Sparrow. He is always ferocious and bold and daring and clever!

And spry!!

[She's not sure what that is exactly, but it was used in a positive connotation, SO SHE'LL THROW IT IN THE MIX.]

...........Aye. And spry.

[Okay. Okay. He'll roll with that. He's in the prime of life, after all. Not.....not like an old guy.]

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