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versusnurture) wrote2014-08-08 07:23 pm
versusnurture) wrote2014-08-08 07:23 pm
twenty ♢ private & spam
private/voice } ben
I want to go.
[This quiet but insistent. She wants to go. She hasn't been outside in so long. She wants to go.]
[She doesn't want to go alone, though.]
private/voice } will
[She debates not contacting him. She's still angry at what she considers to be his betrayal, but - well, he's still Will. They were still supposed to be family. And she thinks he will understand her need for quiet, for green, for whatever there is to find out there.]
Did you see what it is yet? Outside.
spam } throughout port
[Most of her time is spent with Ben or near Ben. She isn't yet confident enough to venture out on her own much, so she stays close and takes short walks away from their site.]
[She explores the woods, carefully and slowly, making sure not to disturb anything irreparably. Her father taught her how to walk without a sound, and she remembers him whenever she sees an animal. She doesn't try to hunt anything. They have enough food.]
[Occasionally she comes up behind someone and goes still, freezing like a deer in headlights, as if she expects to be reprimanded for getting so close. Occasionally she'll watch someone from a distance. Once she climbs a tree, just to get a better vantage point, and sits twenty-five feet above the ground for several hours, just because it feels nice to be above it all and the breeze is refreshing.]
I want to go.
[This quiet but insistent. She wants to go. She hasn't been outside in so long. She wants to go.]
[She doesn't want to go alone, though.]
private/voice } will
[She debates not contacting him. She's still angry at what she considers to be his betrayal, but - well, he's still Will. They were still supposed to be family. And she thinks he will understand her need for quiet, for green, for whatever there is to find out there.]
Did you see what it is yet? Outside.
spam } throughout port
[Most of her time is spent with Ben or near Ben. She isn't yet confident enough to venture out on her own much, so she stays close and takes short walks away from their site.]
[She explores the woods, carefully and slowly, making sure not to disturb anything irreparably. Her father taught her how to walk without a sound, and she remembers him whenever she sees an animal. She doesn't try to hunt anything. They have enough food.]
[Occasionally she comes up behind someone and goes still, freezing like a deer in headlights, as if she expects to be reprimanded for getting so close. Occasionally she'll watch someone from a distance. Once she climbs a tree, just to get a better vantage point, and sits twenty-five feet above the ground for several hours, just because it feels nice to be above it all and the breeze is refreshing.]
private audio
[ 'We', he means to say and does; it's a subtle question. ]
That is, if you'd like to.
[ get you out of the house a bit kiddo ]
private audio
I'd like to.
[Don't hate me, she thinks, even as she still hates him just a little bit.]
We could - I could ask Ben. Or someone else. Um, Daneca.
I might not be any good at it, you know.
[She doesn't actually believe this.]
private audio
I'll - see what I can do about it. [ Carefully, almost unsure. He's not used to this whole warden lark, but asking a teenager a question isn't exactly an intimidating task. It just depends on what he can get his hands on. ]
Do you know how you find water in the woods?
private audio
[She answers instantly, as if she'll be punished for taking too long.]
What other ways?
private audio
[ It seems important to encourage her, when she sounds quick and panicked like something cornered. ]
It's the moss you look for. It's telltale how damp the region is. You follow the moss, you find the water.
private audio
[She echoes. See? She sees.]
I'll help you find it. But we shouldn't try to meet up there. We should find it together.
Ben won't let me too far out of his sight. [And furthermore, she doesn't want him to.]
private audio
[ You did kind of stab him. So it's not the worst idea in the world. Ben's own breed of hovering, which he should really try to be more grateful for. Instead, he just sounds disgruntled. ]
How far is "too far"?
private audio
[She is quietly fond. But she also believes that he'll leave them mostly to it, if he thinks it's important to her. If he thinks it won't hurt her.]
[She thinks it won't hurt. She thinks it might help. Then again, she probably shouldn't trust her own judgment.]
private audio
He doesn't like chalking things up to bare-faced hope anymore. Hope doesn't get him anything done. ]
In which case - I'll talk to Daneca. You won't stray too far?
[ Despite everything - his tone sounds hopeful. ]
private audio
[She's not going to run.]