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lydiascreams) wrote2014-12-06 12:37 pm
lydiascreams) wrote2014-12-06 12:37 pm
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[022. Do you wanna build a snowman?]
[Open Video]
[When Lydia wakes up that morning her bed is much bigger than she's used to. Her room is the same, but different and it's colder than it should be at home.
Once the lights in her room are on, after she takes a peek out the door and doesn't find the rest of her house, she finds the phone there and has an urge to start the video.
She appears on the camera with hair uncharacteristically out of place, and still in her pajamas.]
Mom? Dad?
[Open Spam]
[Lydia decided to explore the place she's at. It's not grandma's house but she feels safe enough in this place and she knows her friends are out there. So she dresses herself and makes her way around the ship until she finds the deck. And snow!
She'll start with building a snowman.]
(ooc: Lydia is obviously affected. Replies will come frompricessariel. Although she doesn't remember exactly what happened or what the Barge is, she'll know if people she's friends with approach her and will be inclined to trust them.)
[When Lydia wakes up that morning her bed is much bigger than she's used to. Her room is the same, but different and it's colder than it should be at home.
Once the lights in her room are on, after she takes a peek out the door and doesn't find the rest of her house, she finds the phone there and has an urge to start the video.
She appears on the camera with hair uncharacteristically out of place, and still in her pajamas.]
Mom? Dad?
[Open Spam]
[Lydia decided to explore the place she's at. It's not grandma's house but she feels safe enough in this place and she knows her friends are out there. So she dresses herself and makes her way around the ship until she finds the deck. And snow!
She'll start with building a snowman.]
(ooc: Lydia is obviously affected. Replies will come from
pricessariel. Although she doesn't remember exactly what happened or what the Barge is, she'll know if people she's friends with approach her and will be inclined to trust them.)
[video]
It's not fair, I want a pet too.
[She stops her pouting for a moment, though.]
How do you know it's real fairy dust? Can you fly?
[video]
[This is another thing that Allison has decided, because she doesn't remember what Mountain Ash is or how it works. She decides these things. It's stuff that everyone should know, as far as she's concerned.]
And it's real 'cause I know it's real! [She thinks, then makes another decision.]
My numbers on my door are 2-1-1. You can bring P'thagors, an' I can show you my fairy dust...an' we can be friends. Then you can share Duchess with me, an' she can be both our bunny.
[video]
She's about to correct her about fairy dust since it obviously doesn't exist because fairies aren't real, but she stops herself at the invitation.]
Really? You'd do that?
Let me share your bunny? [No one's ever offered to share a pet with her before.]
[video]
Yuh huh! If you're my friend, I'll share my bunny, an' my toys...an' you have to take some fairy dust to keep you safe.
[She pauses, then gasps, realizing that she's making a new friend and she doesn't even know her name. That's crazy.]
An' you have to tell me your name! I'm Allison.
[video]
But you can call me Ariel! [She smiles because maybe Allison isn't so bad, she just doesn't know things yet because she's younger. But Lydia can teach her.]
You said 211, right? I'm gonna come see you.
[video]
Ariel's cool!
Okay! I'll leave my door open for you! I just gotta get dressed an' make sure Duchess goes potty. She has a litter box in her pen with the fairy dust around it! Just like a cat!
[video]
Okay, I'm gonna change too and then I'll come see you.
[She waves at her, then disconnects the call.]
[video] --> [spam]
[Allison waves at the camera until her screen goes blank...then drops her comm and rolls out of bed so fast she falls flat on her uncoordinated little face.
It doesn't even hurt. Allison just made a new friend.
Allison doesn't make new friends. Well, hardly at all. Daddy's work makes them move too much for her to make friends, but Mommy and Daddy always ask so she makes up friends sometimes. Occasionally, she gets lucky and she makes a sort-of friend, someone who will come over to play a couple of times, or someone whose mommy will force them to invite her to a party, but friends that are hers, friends who want to play with her even though their mommy didn't make them be nice to the new girl...
Allison's never had a friend like that before.
So she changes her clothes very fast, finding some jeans and a t-shirt in her size amidst a whole closet of grown up clothes she doesn't recognize. She brushes her hair very carefully in the bathroom (standing on a chair she drags in so she can reach the mirror), brushes her teeth...and for good measure, she tries to brush Duchess too.
Just a little.
She hurries around, making sure everything is perfect: Duchess has a nest on the couch, she has a pinch of fairy dust in a napkin to give to Lydia, she has her Nerf bow and arrows to show off, and she even brings out Mister Bear to sit with Duchess.
And she doesn't show Mister Bear to anybody. Mommy always scowls at her when she sleeps with Mister Bear, so she hides him even though Daddy says it's okay.
Lydia's her friend, so Lydia gets to meet Mister Bear.]
[video] --> [spam]
She has lots of parties and sleep overs at her house, too. Sometimes, her parents invite so many kids, she doesn't even know all their names.
She changes best friends a lot, sometimes it's Christie, sometimes it's Ann, sometimes it's Heather. Never Mary though, Lydia doesn't likes Mary and her hair smells funny.
But none of her best friends would ever promise to share their bunnies with her like Allison did.
Lydia has Pytagoras in her hand as she finds Allison's room, pauses outside the door, and knocks. She's afraid Allison will get him dirty because she's little, but, if she's getting to meet her bunny, she can hold Pytagoras.]
[spam]
Hi! Come in, come in, come in! We're gonna play a game with Duchess, she knows tricks!
[As she chatters brightly away, Allison takes Lydia's hand and tugs her inside, shutting the door behind her and leading her into her living room. Duchess is still nesting on the couch, her pink bandanna bunched up beside her.]
She plays Backwards Fetch...watch.
[Releasing Lydia's hand, Allison picks up the bandanna and dangles it over Duchess.
Duchess sits up, sniffs at the corner, then suddenly sits up on her hind legs to snatch it away and hops across the sofa with her prize clutched between her teeth, dragging along behind her.]
[spam]
She's so cute! [It's really a squee that comes out of her when she sees the bunny and then she giggles when Duchess runs off with her bandana.]
Will she let go if I take it from her? [She doesn't wanna hurt her, she's so tiny.]
[spam]
[True to Allison's word, Duchess made it to the edge of the sofa, but when she realized no one was running after her, she hopped back over to the girls, dragging her bandanna behind her. Stopping right in front of Lydia, she let the corner of the bandanna fall from her mouth and looked up at her, nose twitching expectantly.
Allison beamed, proud that Duchess had chosen Lydia to try the game next. Clearly Lydia was a good choice for a friend if Duchess liked her.]
See? She wants you to play now!
[spam]
Hi Duchess, I'm Lydia.
[And then she reaches for the bandana and holds it up for a second before letting it drop.
When the bunny takes off, again, she laughs and looks over at Allison.]
She's the best bunny ever!
[spam]
[When Duchess returns with the bandanna this time, instead of waiting for it to be dangled so she can steal it again, she makes a tiny, growling noise and thumps her foot. Allison giggles at that, reaching out to pet Duchess's back.]
It's okay. She only pretends to be mad. When she growls an' stomps her foot, she wants to be petted an' hugged. An' you can hug her all you want, 'cause she's both our bunny now since we's friends.
[spam]
Did your parents let you have her? My dad won't let me have any pets. He says they're dirty.
[spam]
[Because truthfully, Allison doesn't remember where Duchess came from, just that Duchess is hers, and she came from someone that Allison cares about, and that she's very special.]
My birthday's in Jan'wary, so she's my birthday present, just early.
[Noting that Lydia's very careful, Allison grins and leans over to pick up Duchess, then magnanimously leans over to put the bunny carefully into Lydia's arms, grinning.]
Here, silly. Give her a hug. She likes hugs, an' bunny hugs are fun. Her whiskers tickle when she sniffs on your neck.
[spam]
And as promised, her whiskers tickle and Lydia giggles.]
I want a bunny. Or maybe a puppy. Maybe both. I wish I could have both.
My birthday's in March.
[spam]
But her observation about puppies gives her pause, and with a frown Allison scratches her head. There are a lot of things that confuse her about this new place, and a lot of things she's sure of without really knowing why...
It's all very weird.]
Well, you gots a bunny 'cause Duchess is both our bunny now. An', um...there are puppies here. All over...I know 'cause Duchess told me. [Yes, that makes sense. Duchess is a magic bunny, after all. She probably whispered it in Allison's ear while she was asleep...things like that happen in fairy tales all the time!]
She could help us find some! We should go huntin' for puppies. Maybe you can 'dopt one! March isn't so far away, it could be your birthday present!