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Damien, it's Velige.

[ ... quietly-- ] Just called to say thanks.

Ah, Velige. Um... You're welcome. All I did was talk, so...

[He's not used to being thanked, man.]

It helped. [ can you hear his shrug? ]

's gonna sound dramatic, but it helped kept me grounded.

[Yes. He can.]

... From your change, right? [He does sound relieved though.]

... yeah. [ hnnng. a long pause. then-- ]

... I'd say 'sorry', but... not sure if I can mean it. Since I can't feel it. [ and he... doesn't like lying. ]

It's okay, Velige. The thought of it is good enough, really. [He will accept your apology regardless, man.] So... it's fine.

[ a deep breath. and he lets it go. ]

... yeah. [ ................. aaaaand looks like he's said all he wanted to say. have awkward silence. ]

...

[Have some awkward silence here too, since Damien isn't really sure of what to say.]

... When the flood is gone, do you want to go out to eat? [ ' ^ ' ]

[ ... he blinks, even though you can't see it. you might be able to hear it, though, in his surprised pause. ]

... sure. If you wanna, we can go.

Okay, then we can go to [ (insert restaurant name here somewhere in the Heimdall district)) ]. Does that sound good?

[ well, he's certainly heard of it. and... it does sound good. ] Yeah. It does.

When the flood's gone, we can go. [ repeating damien's words from before-- it's comforting. and when he says it, it almost feels like hope. ]

Yeah, when the flood is gone. I'll remind you when it is.

I'll wait for it.

[ The most useless message in your inbox! It happens shortly after this. Sophie, you could have just threadjacked Damien's thread and not go straight to his inbox... ]

Damien, look!

[ And switching to text: ]

(✪㉨✪)

[Damien was about to say something back, but--

Ah. jhgrekj oh no why is this so cute coming from Sophie... He also switches to text function, but leaves the audio on.]

Is that a bear with star-shaped eyes?

[And sends this over:]

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Edited 2012-07-05 19:52 (UTC)

[ "Oh, he's waving at me!" is what Damien would hear if Sophie had left her video or audio on. But then she quickly realizes that he can't hear her, so give her a minute...

The video feed comes back up, with the text function left running too. ]

...There, I think I did it. Can you hear me, Damien? [ Well, hear and see. She always picks video! She looks happy today...

Anyway, bear emote comes up again in her text-- which you can see her slowly type: ]

(✪㉨✪) yeah its a bear!

[He'll be switching to video too.] Yeah, I can hear you.

It looks pretty starstruck. [Lol puns... he types out another emoticon too:]

(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

Yeah, he's in awe at something.

[ Then she giggles again when another emoticon pops up. ] Hee hee! He's pointing at something! [ Okay, she starts typing something again... slowly. Wow, look at her go, using one finger to type: ]

(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ (=^･ｪ･^=)

Pointing at the cat... [He smiles as he starts to type up something else too. ... It looks like he'll be taking a while, so he'll talk to Sophie as he types.]

They're fun, right? Using emotes.

(=^･ω･^=) [ Just two little prods at the keys and she has the cat smiling now. She's so easily fascinated by this! ]

Mm. They're really fun... and cute. I didn't know you could make them while typing.

Really? It was a really common thing back at my world. I don't use them all the time, but... [He likes going with the flow of others. Yeah.

But here's something for you, Sophie. It took a while for him to actually type it out.

]

We don't- [ Sophie's about to say something, until she sees Damien's hard work pop up on her text screen-- ]

...!

[ MINDBLOWN.

On the video feed, you can see her gasping with awe, eyes lighting up, and clasping her hands together happily. TOTORO IN HER KOKORO!! ]

It's...

It's a giant cat with an umbrella? And... he has a big smile on his face!

[May the Totoro forever be in your kokoro, Sophie...]

Yeah, it's called a Totoro. It was in a really old movie for kids. [Considering... 2030. Yeah.] He held an umbrella and I think there was a cat bus in the movie too.

[ Forever embracing the Totoro in her kokoro. ]

An old movie...? Oh, I know what a movie is. They're moving pictures that you watch on a box called a television. Like anime. [ Mayuri is to blame for this... ]

But what's a cat bus?

A cat bus is... pretty much what it says. A cat that's a bus. If I could draw, I'd show you... [Hmmm.]

I wonder if I can get the movie somewhere.

...A bus? [ She doesn't know what that is either. ]

If you do find the movie, let's watch it. I'd love to see it! [ Moving pictures, yay. And omg, adding more things to their to-do list... ]

Yeah, I'll try to find the movie. [He is the librarian after all!!]

And a bus is like... Hold on.

[He starts typing, squinting at the screen every now and then to see if he got it right... and eventually, he dishes this out:
]

A bus transports people when they don't want to walk to wherever they want to go to. It's handy when you have to go long distances.

Oh, I see! It's like... a carriage! Or a Turtlez Transport. But where's the giant turtle that pulls the bus?

[That gets a chuckle out of him.]

Turtles don't lead the bus. The buses have an engine inside them that drives them forward. There aren't any giant turtles in my world either... so that's why.

Does your world have a cat bus?

[ Oh, then she notices she hasn't typed any new emotes in awhile. She pokes at the keys again with one finger to make a quick little face. ]

(゜。゜) youre really good with emotes damien

Oh... no, I don't think so. We just have regular buses like the one I showed you.

[He smiles as he sees the text pop up and types one back in return.]

I just get really bored back home, so I do stuff like this. The big picture stuff is called "ASCII art". ... I don't know how to pronounce it though.

∑( ‹‹°∏°)

And that's a fish.

[ She's trying to read "ASCII art" out loud: ]

Az... kii... az-key? It looks like a funny word.

[ Have another cat emote, the one she knows best: ]

∑( ‹‹°∏°) (=^･ω･^=) the fish saw the cat!

Yeah... I remember it stood for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, but... I guess I'll have to look up the actual pronunciation later.

∑( ‹‹°∏°)!! (=^･ω･^=) Is the cat going to eat the fish?

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