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Lucas ([personal profile] a_gentle_boy) wrote2011-01-28 05:19 pm

Twenty-Ninth PSI

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[The days of January have passed relatively uneventfully for Lucas.  He's had a lot to think about, and a lot to consider.  For now, though, each time passes much like the rest, and he will take happiness in whatever peace he can get.  His routine is fairly straightforward.

1: Every morning, early morning, Lucas gets on his tea table and delivers his paper. He's still getting used to the hang of it, though. Maybe he'll accidentally smash it into your door, at which point, he'll hurriedly get off to check to see if he damaged anything. Most of the time, he hasn't.
2: After school, he practices piano alone in the music room. By this point, he can be eavesdropped upon without anyone wanting to forbid him from ever touching an instrument again. The songs he plays are strangely melancholy.
3:
In his free time, he sits in the park or in his house and practices his sketching.  Most of the time, he's drawing his friends, so perhaps you'll run across him drawing you.]

[voice]
[A phone call is broadcast to everyone later that night.]

Hello?  A-Ah.  This is Lucas.

I've been thinking a lot lately, and there's something that's been on my mind.  I guess I want to ask . . . How long has this town been here?  How long have people come in and out?  Does anyone really know?  But what's more important is . . . does anyone really remember everyone who's been here? 

When people get droned, we think they've gone home, right?  It's the hope we have, and a lot of the times it's true, but can we really be sure that it's everyone? Sergei -- the Russian man.  He, um.  Didn't he say that they were in a lot of pain?  That some people who were droned . . . that they were still inside.  If that's so, then . . . then we can't just forget about them, right?  Even if one person is still here as a drone, we can't forget about them.  And either way, it's terrible to forget the people you've become friends with at all.  To forget about the people who've come to Mayfield and who've gone.

............. I know I've already started to.

Does anyone think we should maybe start keeping track?  Just . . . something so that the people who come here won't ever be forgotten.  Maybe even signatures.  So if you do start to forget, then you can look back and see everyone's name and remember.  Small things like . . . Miss Margot, and how she was always caring for her sister.  Fuuko and how much she loved starfish.  Mr. Zero, and how fun his gym classes were.

It might be a bad idea.  Or too much work.  But . . . Well.  I guess if you don't want to talk about that, maybe we can just share stories of people who've been here and how important they were to us.  I'd love to hear that kind of thing.

[Please specify 1, 2, 3, or voice.  Although the actions are really just default Lucas interactions if your character has no interest in this topic.]

[identity profile] crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Great! I will!

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Only when I was... near them, but yes. More or less.

[Deep breaths, Sideswipe.]

... Constant pain, yes. It was horrific.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks at her feet.]

I...I wished things were like they used to be...when we were little a-and things were simpler.

[identity profile] shhhhh-secret.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
(Pretends to be interested while flipping through the sketchbook.)

((OOC: Lucas is exclusively drawing non-drone people, right?))

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! I know what those are. Um . . . Is it more like a bass or a normal guitar? . . . Actually, I don't even know the difference.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
It was right after I came here. Everyone got bags of candy hearts that did funny things to you depending on the color.

I, um. Was very good at writing poetry for a while.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid I couldn't tell you.

I received one from home though if you would like to see it someday.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Probably not. I like to think it is, though.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Huh... guess I'd better watch out for that, then. Man, what is with this town and weird candy, anyway?

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
... oh...

... I guess you wouldn't let me take it apart, then...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
It . . . It might have been a trick.

[Lucas doesn't sound too sure of himself, though. Something like that couldn't be true. Could it?]

That's . . . I mean. Some people do go . . . back home . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Y-You were all starving when you were younger?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[After a little while, Lucas will make very definite motions that he'd like it back.]

((No, there are some of people he knew who are gone.))

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! I wouldn't want to impose. But if it's not too much trouble . . .

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
....ah yes. Well...for a lot of it. And usually freezing. W-we can't really starve o-or die from General Winter though...

...we used to wander a lot when we were little. It was always so cold...I had to look after my brother and sister...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I never even thought of that. Maybe it's because everyone's so easily tempted . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
U-Um.

If you were a hundred percent sure you could put it back together . . .

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
...

... I should wait until I have my tool-set back...

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's no trouble at all. You could come over now if you would like to see it.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I just threw that weird Halloween candy away.

[identity profile] shhhhh-secret.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
(Hands it back.)

Good luck with your drawings.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

It's terrible that you had to go through that. Worse that you did again. The town . . . sometimes, it just goes too far.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Th-they like to make us suffer it seems.

[She sniffs and wipes her eyes.]

But it's past now. We have to look towards the future.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
You can look and touch all you want, if that's of any importance to you . . . It's just something I value.

[Lucas sounds vaguely apologetic.]

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[identity profile] leporariusnero.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Vincent's been sitting on a bench, arm draped along the back, legs crossed and watching the slowly descending sun with a pensive expression. Truthfully, he noticed the boy some time ago, but he's posed for many a portrait — he won't move until the boy does. He'd hate to interrupt. ]

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