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

[seabeast]

[ oh no, she wouldn't suspect that! uncontrollable, untamable, though - she's trying to make a reputation of that. ]

course not
just dont go spreadin it around ye hear

[argents]

I hear. Want me to cross my heart?

[seabeast]

ye could
id hold ye to it tho

[argents]

You could, if you wanted to. I might not go for the 'stick a needle in your eye' part though.

[seabeast]

is that a part of it
well
i might hold ye to that too
as long as ye keep your word ye wont be losin an eye now will ye

[argents]

I like them right where they are, so it looks like it.

[ WE WILL NOT GET INTO THAT POEM IN ITS ENTIRETY. ]

[seabeast]

good lad
no fightin lizards if ye dont go spreadin around nonsense about me gettin soft