04; video --> text

[seabeast]

[ A video feed of a ferret sitting very primly in a pet bed, surrounded by a variety of snacks. There's a scrap of what appears to be silk right on her paws. She stares into the camera down her nose, her head held high, then she snakes forward to turn the feed off.

(She is expecting everyone to be so jealous of her Christmas haul. It has not quite struck her that this gesture might have made ZERO SENSE.

A text message is right below the video window:]

christmas gets a pass this year
praps i judjed it too quick

anyone heard of an island called sampetra
warm sandy lots o green
full to the brim with lizards and other filth

[ ... at least she gets to the point? ]

Comments

text;

[seabeast]

[ ... what is going on. even she doesn't think she's this incoherent on most days. ]

nay
flowerin plants and fruits in low trees
never seen a desert

you be shipshape there

text;

[hustru]

[There is a lengthy pause because she's cross-checking her reading comprehension with a few dictionaries. But she seems to have been right.]

"Sandy".

text;

[seabeast]

who are you

[ and why are you messing with her. :| temper... flaring.... ]

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[hustru]

Why?

[That question does not go here. What is the connection.]

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[seabeast]

why
ye come here not makin a lick o sense expectin me to figure what youre gettin at
at this point i want your name so i can track ye down faster ye lily livered numbskull
i aint in a mood to be crossed

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[hustru]

[She's more confused than anything now. None of that made any sense to her. She'll just repeat her original question, just phrase it ...vastly... differently.]

I asked about "Sampetra". It felt familiar.

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[seabeast]

better
plain english be what i understand

the island then
ye been there

text;

[hustru]

The name was "Serkland", but the description fits. Not the name the natives used, either.

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[seabeast]

right pity that
aint heard o your serkland

text;

[hustru]

Any other alternative names?

[She's not sure if she should hope for any connection or be glad that there is apparently none, but she doesn't want to jump over it that easily.]

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[seabeast]

[ a significant pause as she makes an effort to remember... hm. ]

nothins comin to mind
twas a berth for pirates and freebooters and other seascum
and there was a castle at the center

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[hustru]

[...no. She doesn't remember anything like that. It sounds much to small for all that she remembers.]

Different.

You know nobody else from your place?

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[seabeast]

here
in her memories
where

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[hustru]

Here.

[She didn't think that it would be necessariy to specify - after all one's memories should be full of such people, shouldn't they? But maybe she was wrong. She needs to be more mindful of that.]

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[seabeast]

nay
and id know if they be here
itd be plain as the nose on me face

text;

[hustru]

How?

[She knows that Åsa has to be form the same world, but she'd really like to know if there are more, so if this person has a reliable method...]

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[seabeast]

simple
i reckon they must be beasts like me if they be here

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[hustru]

Nobody ever turned into an animal?

[That is ...surprisingly reassuring, really. What has her life become.]

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[seabeast]

if they have they aint told me yet

[ not that she'd mind, exactly. she doesn't get the feeling that romsca was the type to make friendly. ]

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[hustru]

They could have reasons.

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[seabeast]

course they could
its not like thinkin about what they be is gonna help me any tho

[hustru]

[she'll stop replying here because - this whole conversation has been a disaster, hasn't it, and she'll make things even worse if she replies more and she'll look at date of growing cultures for an hour now to calm herself down.

And then she'll start to wonder if everyone from her past would necessarily be human.]