[backdated to October 30]

[blessingone]

[So, Fenimore has been hermiting away in House 34 for the past few days. She really isn't liking where the village was going. Okay, so there are spiders and rats (bats are okay, assuming they didn't learn about the myth of flying into people's hair). Okay, so there are ghosts everywhere (even if she'd so far been safe from pranks, since Grune was a very good source of the candy they demanded). But mostly.........it's foggy.

It sounds silly to say, but that's the part that spooks her the most. A couple of years ago, things went pretty bad when it got misty, so she's feeling extremely jumpy. Of course, holing up in House 34 really hadn't worked for her at that time, even with Shirley around to help, and she'd rather abandon ship completely, but right now, she's the only one left to look after Sophie. And Grune. Maybe the latter even more so. So she's going to have to suck it up.

But then Grune's unstoppable thirst for baking has started to empty the fridge and Grune's attempts at shopping were often...less than successful. If it was just her, she'd honestly prefer to go hungry than venture out into the foggy village, but Sophie is a little kid and shouldn't be made to go without. So, it is time to gird her loins and....

...ask the village for advice.]

[Voice]

Hey. [She sounds rather subdued compared to her normal.] Has anyone...seen anything strange around? I mean -- not the ghosts or anything. Well, maybe the ghosts. Are they really just asking for candy? [She's not really sure whether she'd have to worry about them if she goes out during the day, but she hasn't exactly investigated about them, either.]

But...what I meant was...seeing things that aren't there, or...hearing things in the mist. That sort of thing. It's just...it's not usually this quiet around this time of year. [You know. Draft aside. But she hasn't heard much about that yet.] I wasn't sure if it was really safe to go out right now.

[Okay, that should do it. Although....] ...Thanks, I guess.

[Okay, now done.]

[Action]

[Late in the afternoon of the 30th, she'll have finally run out of milk worked up the nerve to go out, so she can be found trying to make her way to the grocery store. It's not always a smooth journey, though. Aside from the rats and spiders on both ways, it starts to get dark before she manages to get all the way back -- such is what happens when you put things off too long -- and ghostly activity picks up. Now that she's not in the house that gives away so many treats, she is a fine target for pranks. Pranks which include (but are not limited to) invisibibly picking her up by her grocery bag until her feet start to leave the ground, kicking wildly. Ghosts, man. Bad business.]

Comments

[blessingone]

[ that would be a terrible event.

Anyway, Fenimore's ruffled feathers start to settle a bit. ]

Thanks for the permission. [ She doesn't sound especially sincere. ] It sounds like you deal with this kind of thing a lot.

[repudiate]

I wouldn't say 'a lot', but I'd definitely say 'more than I'd like to deal with that sort of thing'. [ She still hasn't forgotten the time Keiichi flipped out here, really, even if she didn't notice the worst of it until it was already over.. ] Both the bad precautions and just.. generally weird things popping up, I guess.

[blessingone]

[It just seemed so natural that he would pull an Edward Cullen.]

I guess you fit right in around this village, then. [Weird things seem to be the norm here.] But my precautions won't turn out to be bad, I promise.

[Her precautions are all mostly totally rational.]

[repudiate]

[ and then the next morning they found Fenimore after having clawed her own throat out.. ]

Good. I'd hate to lose one seemingly reasonable person to the mass of idiots, after all.

[blessingone]

[ don't ruin the surprise of her next mallynap effect!! ]

I don't know if I'd say most of the people here are idiots, but...I guess it's true that a lot of people around here don't think normally.

[repudiate]

[ the cat is out of the (cat)box. ]

.. And how exactly would you mean 'don't think normally'? Isn't it the same thing?

[blessingone]

[ the question is: is it alive or dead? ]

It...well, it sort of is, I guess. I mean, if they were from a normal world, it would be, but...it sounds like it works where they come from. It's more that they come from a weird place, sometimes.

[ Instead of a normal world where people with glowing hair and detachable souls live on an island-ship with talking otters. ]

[entreats]

[ That sounds like a totally normal world to Ange, either way. ]

Weird as in the 'my dead aunt came back to life just to try and shoot me in the face' kind of weird?

[blessingone]

...I guess that could be one example.

[ Though the way she sounds weirded out suggests that the suggestion is certainly outside of what she expected. ]

I'd hope that anyone would find that weird, though.

[entreats]

You'd be surprised how often it happens.

[ Whether that's meant seriously or as a joke - since it only happened to her once, after all - is left up in the air. She sounds pretty straightfaced about it though, at least. ]

[blessingone]

[ ... She must be pulling her leg. ]

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Back home, I'd say that anyone who thinks that happens a lot was an idiot, or at least trying to mess with me. But here, I wouldn't be completely sure.

[entreats]

I've learned to not find anything particularly weird anymore. Here or back home.. either way, it doesn't even really matter what the place is.

[blessingone]

So...your home is about as strange as Luceti, you mean?

[ WAS SHE NOT PULLING HER LEG ABOUT THE DEAD AUNT...? ]

[entreats]

[ There's a hum as she seems to think about it, and then she answers - still seeming completely straightforward, mind you. ]

I'd say it's even stranger than this place. Compared to my life back home, my life here is relatively normal.

[blessingone]

...

I guess the idiotic thinking you were talking about didn't have to do with strange worlds, then, huh?

[entreats]

No, it just has to do with a general lack of common sense. I'm sure that common sense for the most part is the same across worlds. [ or so she hopes.. she'd hate to see a work without common sense, that sounds like a horror sotry. ]

[blessingone]

Well, personally, I thought people not coming back from the dead fell under "common sense," but...maybe most of it works the same everywhere.

[entreats]

You'd have a field trip in my world.

[ When They Cry: the series where everything you love dies.. and then is revived and dies again.. and then is revived and dies again.. ]

[blessingone]

[ The expression is probably foreign to her -- it's pretty hard to have field trips when you aren't supposed to leave the village -- but she can at least mostly determine the meaning from context. That is pretty messed up. ]

...I have enough of an idea from here, thanks. [ Luceti isn't much for longterm death, either. ]