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savetheearth2014-02-24 01:01 am
enguarding) wrote in savetheearth2014-02-24 01:01 am
two video posts, a text message, and an action option. during a reasonable time of day.
[ VIDEO POST A; ]
[ GROUP TEXT TO: KALLIE, MILES, JAKE ]
[ VIDEO POST B; ]
[ ACTION; ]
[ It’s taken herself a little while to work up to it, but...a video post from Sierra Callahan, finally, away from her usual habit of text or voice. It wasn’t as though people hadn’t seen her face, as she’d been at the meeting about the farmhouse, but it just hadn’t been her first option in general. She fiddles with the webcam for a second; there appear to be a lot of boxes in the background, as though she’s just moved. ]
Hey, this is Sierra. For...those of you who didn’t know. [ Done with the camera, she moves on to playing with the end of her ponytail, as though nervous. ] I’m going to update my reply to the “safe practitioner” list Naomi has, but...just in case you haven’t seen it or don’t know about it, I thought I’d say here that you should feel free to use my network number to reach me.
[ ...Wait, there’s a part that’s sort of...why that would be a thing... ]
...I can do healing of the magical kind now. It’s gotten better from when I first started it, so...just in case. And you can still contact me about any animal problems, too, which I’m a bit more experienced in, but...just in --
[ Over Sierra's shoulder appears a dude, peering at the computer screen. At the network specifically because haha what. ] Are you video chat roleplaying a witch or something?
[ That… doesn't sound like a normal Sierra thing but Noah just walked in to find her on some weird chat site talking about "magical kind of healing" EITHER SHE'S ROLEPLAYING OR IT'S SOMETHING SEXUAL and Noah's not… gonna go there nope. ]
[ Enjoy the image of Sierra nearly jumping out of her skin, knocking a book to the floor as she turns and manages not to fall out of her chair, although she does manage to elbow the guy who appeared over her shoulder in the nose. ]
What? No! Noah, I told you to stay out of my room already! Oh my god, you can’t just sneak up on me like that! [ ...Hopefully his nose is okay but WOW GEEZE ]
[ CLUTCHING HIS NOSE ow this is what he gets for waltzing into his sister's room… and what Sierra gets for moving in with her kid brother and not expecting something like this, really. ]
Gosh, sorry! The door was open. [ Lies. But now he's pointing at the computer screen. ] What are all those posts about, then? Like, shouldn't you be hanging around on the animal planet forums or something, not… whatever that is?
I can hang out wherever I want to - [ It only takes a second for Sierra’s brain to catch up there, screaming about the relevant part. ] - what did you just say? You can see - oh, for -
[ She can’t even finish a proper sentence that’s how thrown she is. The camera, says the part of her that isn’t looking stunned and slightly sick about the fact Noah can see the network; Sierra reaches over and shuts off the camera and ends her post. There will be another entry half an hour later from a different number, although she’ll go through and reply to anything coming to her at that point - as well as responding to things on Noah’s post. ]
[ GROUP TEXT TO: KALLIE, MILES, JAKE ]
[ Sent a few minutes after the first video post is a hurried group text from Sierra’s phone to those three people. If they reply, Sierra’s responses will be delayed by about half an hour as she takes the time to argue with her brother/give him the newbie intro. ]
I found someone else. Heads up if you check the network.
[ VIDEO POST B; ]
[ After getting the newbie explanation from his sister in between sibling bickering that no doubt did not endear the two to their neighbors, Noah decides to put that number he got six months ago (yes, six) to use and see if it works. It does. He takes only a quick look at the other posts, sort of just a "wow this is… a thing" look.
Then he decides that since the network already got a glance at him from Sierra's poorly ended post, it might be nice to say hi and introduce himself. Behind him is the sort of bedroom you expect from a messy, sporty college kid that needs to unpack still, bedroom door wide-open peering into a living room with boxes. He looks pretty calm if amused, for someone who just stumbled into all… this. ]
Ha, okay wow. It's kind of hard to react to this with other than that, but Sierra Mist's given me the run-down on this whole thing. Kind of cool in a realllly weird way?
Anyway, I'm Sierra's brother Noah, and--
[ It’s Sierra’s turn to suddenly appear. Noah’s door actually was open, unlike hers, and she leans into the frame, one hand going to his shoulder to help her balance as she ascertains that yes, he is talking to the network. ]
- and after six months of having a number, I’m finally deciding to use it. Was that going to be the end of your sentence, Noah? [ Said with a sugary sweet smile, although they might have uh been arguing about this for a while. ]
[ CUE EYE-ROLLING, though he's still smiling. ]
Ha ha, no, I was going to say-- uh, well I don't remember what but come on is the six month thing really a big deal? Like, I bet lots of people do the same thing! [ Right stranger network people? (Probably not, Noah.) ]
For six months? [ Sierra’s go to argument here is a pretty good one, you have to admit. Although she should...probably stop arguing about it on the network like this. She’s never actually displayed such a propensity for bickering before, but this is her brother, and he’s a class all his own. Sometimes they revert to being five and six, respectively. ] Without mentioning any of the weird stuff that happens to Numbered people ever to their wise older sisters?
What was I supposed to say? "Yo, sis, seeing some weird impossible shit!" without expecting you to say "yo, lil bro, you're crazy". Because that'd be the sensible reaction.
Plus, you never mentioned any of this to me, either, y'know. [ They have argued this for a good portion of time already, though Noah is still pretty chill. ]
I’m older than you, I don’t have to tell you everything. “Because I said so” rights, baby brother. [ Not that...he has to tell her everything...okay this argument is getting dumb and they’re both pretty sure they’re right and seem relaxed enough anyway. ] Oh, whatever. Finish up your post. And then I need you to come help me put together the bookshelf.
Pffft, sure. [ Noah disagrees on that logic, but yeah she is right that this post should end before it becomes Callahans Are Dorks: The Movie. ] Right, yeah! Um. I'm Noah, nice to uh, sort of meet you guys. Since my sis has known about you for six months, but never mentioned it. See ya!
[ HAD TO HAVE THE LAST WORD he gives a thumbs up and hits the off button - although the last image is of Sierra smacking the back of his head lightly. NOAH, PLEASE. Both siblings will be replying depending on what is said. ]
[ ACTION; ]
[ Later that day, the Callahan siblings can be found at one of the local grocery stores, doing some grocery shopping. They’ve only just finished moving in today, after all, and their kitchen is shockingly empty. Sierra has a list on her phone and is going down it methodically.
Noah is...not. In fact, he seems to be grabbing things off of the shelves that aren’t on the list at all, if bystanders go by how Sierra reacts to each item - occasional eyerolls or annoyance, occasional laughing acceptance, and at one point a sidelong look of why would you even, depending on what the item is. Feel free to come upon them bickering at any point in time.
While they do seem to be arguing, it’s clear that they’re actually not that upset from the way they interact. No matter how many times Sierra scolds him, Noah always grabs what she says is next on the list, and automatically reaches for things that are out of his sister’s own reach (...sometimes with a taunting smile, but). No matter how many times Noah throws random things in the cart, Sierra doesn’t seem to get frustrated enough to leave or yell, and even leaves some of it in.
Though she just has to question... ]
…a party size box of lasagna, it's like three times the size of the family size! We could eat off this for, like, days.
[ Noah's holding up a box of the stuff, looking super pleased with himself as if he's solved all their food problems. It should be noted his other item choices have been absurdly sugary cereal, ten boxes of frozen pizza, and some stuff he saw and went "oh hey that might be good?" but is nothing like anything else in the cart.
It's probably a really good thing Noah's living with his sister now, to keep him from only eating this kind of junk. ]
We are not getting that. If we’re having lasagna, I’ll make it without the box stuff. Noah, have you ever heard of the food pyramid? Because like two things you’ve suggested have been on it but I’m pretty sure everything else isn’t...
[ Sierra’s arguing, but she’s laughing, too. This is their typical grocery shopping conversation; feel free to intrude. ]
I want [ACTION] fight me
Yes, even the private message.
Rather than catching a break for once, she continues her weird streak of just happening to run into her pulse-friends at seemingly random but ultimately suspiciously convenient times. She's considering an inline of mixed nuts when she hears a familiar voice coupled with an unfamiliar one and jumps to attention--
Oh, it's Sierra and... some guy? The fact that there's a stranger too waters down any initial desire the woman might have had to attempt catching her attention. Instead she blinks at them awkwardly, frozen in place with a can of cashews in hand... ]
kallie > sierra > noah
...And the food pyramid is the thing that, you know, makes sure you're not living off of frozen pizzas or boxed lasagna.
[ It takes her a minute to actually spot Kallie, despite the pink hair, but when she does, Sierra's eyes widen as she sights the girl over her brother's shoulder. ]
Kallie! [ ...Noah, you had better not sneak that lasagna box in while she's distracted... ]
[ ACTION ] kallie > sierra > noah
Falling. "What in the--" A pink haired woman in battle armor holding out her hand. "I'm here." He takes her hand, she catches him. They're flying. "Where am I?" "Valhalla."
-- then it's over. What the actual hell. Is this going to be a Thing now? Having weird visions in the middle of grocery shopping? ] Whoa, awkward.
[ Shaking that off, Noah waves in Kallie's direction in a friendly I Have No Clue Who You Are But Hi, Sup Bro? sort of way. Then he leans over to Sierra. ] Do you know that girl?
[ ACTION ] nerd > nerd > nerd
Not that she notices, of course; she's a lot more focused on Sierra at first rather than who's with her at first, so any weird looks that happen to cross Noah's face slip by her unnoticed.
... She's probably going to have to talk to them, isn't she? If only for a minute, anyway; resigned, she sets down the cashews can. At least since mystery-guy is sure to be non-numbered, it won't take long, right? Hopefully Sierra will have a better idea than she does regarding how they know each other, she thinks... ]
[ ACTION ] okay that's fair
[ She tugs at her ponytail, meaningfully. Rosy hair? Of course, her other descriptions had been along the lines of "high school kid who's a bit snarky but nice, taller guy with blond hair" but Kallie's description had been something memorable, surely: girl with pink hair. Keep up, Noah.
She turns away from Noah after Kallie reluctantly puts down her nuts, taking Noah's elbow to steer him in the proper direction. ]
Hey, Kallie. This is my younger brother, Noah; Noah, this is Kallie. I told you about her.
[ Remember...? ]
[ ACTION ] three nerds walk into a grocery store
But his smile is genuinely friendly as Sierra introduces him to the previously mentioned pink hair girl aka battle armor vision chick aka Kallie. ]
Right, yeah, Sierra told me there was a pink haired girl in her club. I mean, currently pink haired. [ As opposed to only pink-haired in weird visions. ] Sup, nice to meet you.
ONLY ONE WALKS OUT-- wait no
"In her club..."
Finally she makes proper eye contact with Noah... aaaand immediately stiffens a bit, blinking rapidly. At that moment there's another new Echo, giving her... something that somehow manages to be even more bewildering than her previous memories out of the same process: this guy, definitely - though he's far enough away that it should have been impossible to recognize him - and her own voice asserting that she knew him by name. The scenery she doesn't know (too utterly bizarre), but she does know the crystal that Lightning summoned... and immediately smashes with her sword as she unceremoniously flung herself off the rooftop she was on. Backwards.
Kallie shifts her weight, eyes dropping towards the ground, and grips the strap of the bag over her shoulder. You'd think she'd be over reacting so strongly to the sudden flashbacks so stuffed full of odd things (and in many ways, she is), but this one's got so much strangeness that it definitely manages to throw her off. It's too much to process in only a moment.
Perhaps that's appropriate though, if he's Sierra's brother. The pony-tailed woman did manage to cause a particularly stagger-level Echo the first time they'd met, that's for sure. ]
... Numbers club?
[ It's about all she can manage, obviously strained. Some first impression, huh? ]
when did this become the hunger games
[ That was in response to both her past-life sister and her current-life brother, and...okay, she really should have given Kallie a little more warning there, probably. Whatever Noah got back - if anything, and she assumes he got something - he seems to be handling it with his usual casual ease, at least. ]
I only figured out he could see the Network today, or...well, I would have had him come along to our little get-together.
[ ...She elbows Noah in the ribs as she says that. Lovingly.
NEVER LETTING THIS GOOOOOOOOO, NEVER GONNA LET THE STORM RAGE ONNNNNNNN. ]
it was always the hunger games
[ Shrugs. Admittedly he's still thinking of it as "Sierra's club", despite the fact that he sort of just became a member, too.
Oof, gosh Sierra ARE WE STILL ON THIS. ]
Ha, well, if I'd known about it I would have totally come along to meet the gang. Aren't clubs all about meetings, anyway? We could make into a monthly thing. Or every other month. [ Noah no, no one wants that. ]
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[ Kallie slides her hands into the pockets of her jacket, glancing between them as the brows above her pale eyes gradually climb higher and higher- as it kind of sinks in fully that these two are siblings, Noah was one of "them," and yet... they weren't bouncing Echoes off each other? How did that work, when as far as Kallie knows, it's pretty much a guarantee that the phenomena will hit soon after any time those who'd known each other in a past life meet?
Then again, the two couldn't have been siblings during the life that Lightning and Serah were from; Noah/Noel wasn't a Farron, and in the flash of memory she'd just gotten, the way Lightning seemed to recognize him was... weird. Maybe, then, Noel and Serah hadn't really known each other or something, despite Noah and Sierra eventually figuring it out in some way or another anyway- that not only was Noah a numbered, but connected to rest of them involved in their mentioned get-together.
Monthly meetings? Perhaps that could be a good idea, but Kallie's attention is pulled elsewhere. She looks at Noah with a bit of an uncomfortable set to her mouth and maybe just a little more accusatory push behind her tone beyond simple curiosity. ]
How long had you known?
[ Oh, surprise, the girls might not be related by blood this time around, but there's a very high chance that the 'six months' thing isn't going to be let go without some grief from this young woman, either. ]
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It's the changes that start to make things happen. Sierra wearing her hair in a way she'd never done before. The two of them talking about things they remembered that had never occurred in this lifetime.
Which would be a relief, if Sierra knew that was how it worked. The idea of echoing off of her little brother constantly gave her a headache whenever she started to worry about it.
She doesn't answer for Noah this time, instead raising her eyebrows and gesturing for him to tell Kallie the truth. Time to face the music, little brother. ]
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Well, uh. I just found out about the network today... but I had an echo, uh, six months ago? When Sierra started wearing her side-ponytail.
[ Shrugs, but sheepishly. He is not seeing the big deal of it, since is six months really that long? It wasn't like he knew about it all for the whole time, either! It's not that bad, is it. Is it.
And he may be trying to shove off some of the heat onto Sierra, for not telling him, either. ]
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Fortunately, she clears her throat and seems to drop it though - for now - even as she keeps this in mind. Sierra's hair? Honestly, Kallie's also sort of surprised it still hasn't gone pink like hers so far BUT ANYWAY. ]
... So, I guess you've already got the run-down, then...
[ And, celebrating with a ginormous box of lasagna? ]
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At least Kallie understands that SIX MONTHS is a long time not to mention you know things. ]
Yeah, I explained earlier when he barged in on me making a network post.
[ Her brother, ladies and gentlemen. ]
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It was... quite an explanation. I'm still kind of confused on some... things.
[ Okay he's basically just winging it and pretending he knows what's going on but has no clue. Just taking it moment by moment. ]
I guess I could have cleared this up months ago, but y'know. Sierra never mentioned it. [ shoves blame off onto her ]
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You mean today? [ She hasn't checked. Obviously. Her brow crunches a little in concern as she works out what the two have mentioned so far. ] What's going on?
[ Yes, she automatically assumes something's unusual if Sierra's making a network post... because that's the only time Kallie makes network posts, after all. She considers past-sis a reasonable sort who doesn't make frivolous how i maek boifrand posts, so clearly this is logical though. ]
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[ Sierra twitches her fingers, indicating she means magic. ]
It's not as much as some other people can do, I don't think, but I thought I'd just let people know I had it, in case they...needed something like that.
[ So it wasn't really a how i maek boifrand post, but more an I have a thing that can help and here is the heads up post. She's fairly sensible, although it, uh, turned into arguing with her little brother... ]
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Taking advantage of the girls discussing... whatever they're discussing, Noah casually slips the lasagna back into the cart while Sierra is distracted. Look, it's a good deal and it's a giant box of lasagna.
And he doesn't really know what to say about his sister having magical healing powers, because that's still haha wow. ]
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Sierra's explanation has her attention more- has her more worried. She tugs on the strap of her bag idly, shifting her weight before recrossing her arms again, making a soft hm in her throat. ]
Just be careful, you know...
[ They're not sisters in this life, but Kallie still has the right to feel worried about the other girl, doesn't she? ]
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goddamnit noah contain yourself for FIVE MINUTES out goes the lasagna once again! ]
Yeah, I will be. I mean - I just thought if it could be helpful, even a little...
[ Kallie's allowed to worry. And probably right to do so. ]
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And he interjects ] Don't worry, I'll keep Lucky Charms over here from getting her butt kicked via healing people with her freaky witch powers.
[ ... as if Noah has half an idea on how to keep someone safe from ALIEN MONSTERS but he doesn't really know all about aaaaall that, yet. ]