02 [ text & a small handmirror ]

[seabeast]

[ There's now video of a small ferret on the network, staring intently at the mirror. If you aren't familiar with Lyall's ferret Stella, you are now. The familiarity is about to grow. After a long, long period of consideration, the presence of several other animals on the network, several lessons in basic spelling and phonetics ("just write what sounds right"? yes, this could be awful) and literal weeks of nagging... put simply, she's caved. Not happily, but if it'll get Lyall out from under her paws...

She looks balefully into the mirror, refocuses her attention on the laptop next to her, then... starts typing. Very slowly. Hey, fine motor functions isn't her forte just yet. Or phonetics. ]

i no wat yu lot ar sayin too me
so heer we ar
supriz

thats al

Comments

[Video]

[visionarykitten]

[There's another of those animals on the network sticking his whiskers in the screen-- or in Stella's mirror, anyway-- looking curious.]

I can't read. But aihhah. Uh, hello.

[Interestingly enough, all but that one word in the middle sounds like ferret-speak to Stella. It sounds like English to anyone who speak's English. The Speech is weird like that.]

[Video]

[seabeast]

[ Oho... She had seen his original post, but didn't answer. She still seems a little hesitant to talk, given the strange clarity in which she can understand him - how is that possible, exactly? - but at least she can stop with the damn typing. ]

I been a charity case for a season now. 'Twas choppy going until then, but sittin' down to do the work all proper-like ain't to my likin'. Better then lettin' 'alf the information go sailin' past my little head, though.

[Video]

[visionarykitten]

[She talked back! Gogo looks both surprised and pleased, whiskers forward and eyes big.]

This is so weird... I've never talked to anything like you before. What's a charity case? So you understand ehhif but can't actually talk?

[Video]

[seabeast]

Ferret. Ferret's the word you're lookin' for, mate. [ she cranes her head back. ] Charity is when some down on his luck arse gets a free meal and a pat on the back from some fool who can afford both. And if your ehhif is what I call tall folk, walkers, two-leggers, great bald daftbeasts... then aye. Don't rightly know why, but there it is.

[Video]

[visionarykitten]

Ferret. Okay.

[He's absorbing lots of new words from all that. Talk folk. Two-leggers. Charity. Ferret. He flicks an ear and cocks his head at her.]

There's nothing wrong with living with ehhif. I mean, I kind of like it. You get free food and petted, and you're inside so the hhau’fih outside can't chase you. I guess it does get kind of boring, though.

[Video]

[seabeast]

Boring's not the half of it, matey. Ain't the type to be tied down by a house, and I could live without another pat on the back. [ those are rather nice though. she will lie up and down about that, but there you go. ] The vittles are decent, but I could find that on me own. Mostly, I'm here so I can check on you lot without havin' to fiddle my way about a puddle of water or sommat.