{2nd Flower; Video}

[seethelanterns]

[Hai Numbers Network. Tonight you are greeted by a short haired brunette, brushing some behind her ear as she stands back, trying to straighten her phone before turning it around. In front of her is this painting she has been working on replicating from memory. It came to her in mention of 'floating lights'. So, naturally now she is playing detective and trying to figure out just what these lights are exactly. She's certain they aren't stars at least.]

Hey everyone. Look, so I kind of had another...echo thing. This painting. I think I got it replicated. I was just wondering if those....lights look familiar to anyone? What they might be? I mean, I don't think they're stars, so.....any other ideas?

And yes. That yellow seems to be a heck of a lot of hair. Or...something like that. Not what I'm too concerned about. I'm not sure if these lights have anything to do with the sun thing, but I'm going to see what I can figure online. Figured it couldn't hurt to get some ideas from you guys though.

So. Fire away.

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[beforeweproceed]

[His tone's lighthearted. And absent. And somewhat preemptively resigned.]

Well, it reminds me of a van Gogh, but I'll bet anyone who knows anything about the subject'd tell you that. And that's about as much as I know: just barely anything.

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[seethelanterns]

van Gogh......hey. I guess it kind of does. I like it. It's sort of different to my usual style, but I do try out a lot from the art I see in the museum. Thanks anyway, mister...

[Oh. Oh right. She hasn't introduced herself to this guy yet and she doesn't know his name.]

I'm Solana.

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[beforeweproceed]

I'm Bill.

You paint, then! [Lift for transition into what looks like the stuff of positive conversation - who'd-a thunk that when he came in saying he doesn't know a thing about art.]

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[foil]

[ A familiar face! Akira's video pops on as he tries to squint at the painting up close. Okay, yes, floating light or lantern things are definitely painted. Moving on. ]

Are any of those that sun shape you were looking for before?

And more importantly why does it look like she's sitting on top of a tree?

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[seethelanterns]

Akira! Hey. I don't think so. I mean, some of them are more round but none have the specific sun sigil on them.

As for the tree? I guess she climbed it? That's not the important part of the painting here.

[Clearly. Solana is way more focused on the lights themselves rather than the girl with the insanely long blonde hair. There is no recognition or similarity with her and that girl as far as she can tell. Her own hair presently in a short, choppy pixie-cut with the darker brown the opposite of that golden blonde.]

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[foil]

[ Akira is looking over the picture more carefully now that the sun sigil doesn't seem to be part of it. ]

You know, these look like sky lanterns, uh.. Kongming, I think. They're used in a lot of festivals. They used to be used for military too, I think. My grandmother talked about them once or twice. Anyway, they're used for weddings and stuff today. It definitely looks like the girl is watching lanterns, but they're too far. Maybe she's watching a festival?

[ Akira finally leans back and props his hands up behind him as he relaxes, legs cross folded in front of him with his phone still propped up. ]

Do the lights match up to your other pulses at all?

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[dead_black_eyes]

[L wants to help, about as much as he wants to commission this girl to paint a mural at Espresso Yourself now that construction is less than a week away from done. But he knows little about art; music and painting mean as much to him as dissertations on the importance of accepting en pousssant do to most people.]

Maybe it's abstract. It's possible that it's meant to evoke an emotion rather than depict something real.

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[seethelanterns]

You think so? It just seems...familiar somehow. Like, this longing.....

[She shakes her head, biting her lip.]

I don't even really know the context of it. I just know that I really, really want to know what they are. At least, that's my emotions to it.

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[dead_black_eyes]

Well... "think" implies mental commitment and I don't think I'd go that far. I don't know that much about art. Are others offering more helpful suggestions?

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[ursoreckless]

That looks a little like the Zhongqiu Festival on the mainland.

Well. Sorta like it. I'm not sure about the person with the long hair.

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[seethelanterns]

The Zhongqiu Festival? Hm. I should look that up. Thanks!

I'm more interested in the lights than the hair, really. And, I mean. Nobody could realistically have hair......that long.

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[ursoreckless]

Yah, hair that long would be really hard to take care of, I would think. I know there was a country singer with hair down to her ankles but I can't think of something longer, you know?

It's a fall festival and I think they've banned some of it now, but when I was a kid we use to light up these little candles with these paper covers and let them go into the sky. They look sorta like that from far away.

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[sucrosity]

They're floating lights? If they're not stars, they've gotta be... fireflies! Or, like, candles? Floating candles? Maybe ghosts. Ugh, creepy...

Oh! They float lanterns down the river in honor of the dead during Obon. Maybe it's... a reverse of that?

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[seethelanterns]

They seem a bit big for fireflies. Maybe if they were...like, really big candles? I know you can get some bigger ones.

[Wait. Wait. That word....]

Lanterns....?

[sucrosity]

Hey, weird super-big fireflies wouldn't exactly be the weirdest thing we've ever heard of around here.

Huh--oh! Oh, yeah. Lanterns. You know, like the crappy multicolored paper ones you can get at Party City? Only nicer, usually. Most of them are square-ish for Obon.

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[darkhourdear]

It's really pretty! [c: yeah Phillip doesn't have anything more than that.]

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[seethelanterns]

Oh, thank you! I'd been working on it for a bit, since I got the echo. I think I did a pretty good job with it.

[She appreciates the compliment, giving Phillip a smile.]

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[darkhourdear]

You did! Do you paint a lot?

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[occasus]

They look like fireflies to me.
And hey, good job. I told you you'd get a second echo.

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[seethelanterns]

They seem a bit big for fireflies? Or maybe that is just me. You're not the first one to suggest fireflies.

Thanks! I got another one, but I can't really do anything with that. The whole. Sun thing. It's like there was this room and someone had painted all over and there were heaps of those suns.

And the frying pan.

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[occasus]

Frying pan?

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[needsmorezippers]

[did someone say ART?]

That looks really good. What did you use?

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[seethelanterns]

[Yes. Yes she did.]

Oh, like what sort of paints? I just used some acrylics on spare canvas my mother had around the studio.

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

That is a lot of hair.

Rapunzel?

[ Is he serious? Who knows. ]

[Voice]

[seethelanterns]

Rapunzel?

[Like the fairytale? Okay, the hair is kind of. Ridic long but.]

I don't know. I was just copying what I remembered from the echo with the floating lights.