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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] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I know they do have cameras here. A lot more advanced than the ones I'm used to, too.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Just don't press yourself too hard. You aren't the only one who's fighting the town . . .

[identity profile] heartstar-blues.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know. I'll be sure to take it easy.

[Then he goes off and dies, but that's not here or now.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I would! I was just about to ask, actually. You don't mind?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
. . . We will get out of here. I have to believe that. . . . I think it might take an awfully long time, though.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
((Actually, Lucas lives across the street from that mess so I was wondering if I ought to comment, but I don't know if I needed to sign up.))

[identity profile] heartstar-blues.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
((Don't know either actually ;.;. The Captain caught her out on the street wherever she ends up.))

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all.

[And she walks over to the couch and places her music in front of here. After a moment, she starts to play a song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goe9JYZJS8)]

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's starting to look that way, huh?

But we can't give up!

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas, too, will seat himself, and he listens to her play with the entirety of his attention. When she is done, he will clap softly.]

That was really beautiful . . . I've never heard anything like it.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles as she finishes.]

I'm glad you liked it. I've been playing since I was very very little.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas nods to that slowly.]

We won't.

But, Kay . . . What should we even do now? I don't know if we're getting anywhere.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, me and a couple other people are going to watch the milkman and maybe check out the dairy sometime soon...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. OK. Sounds promising. . . . Wait, what. Gape. Shock. Flail.]

K-Kay! The milkm -- You can't! He . . . He's the most dangerous of all of them. Maybe not including Lucy, but . . . A-And you said you'd tell me if you were going to do anything dangerous again!

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm telling you right now! And we're just keeping an eye on him for a little while. I don't even know if I'm going to try to break into the dairy. I promised you and Takeshi both that I wouldn't take any more big risks like I did back at City Hall...

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
To have us know... those we've lost are in a constant state of pain?

They want to torture us. Isn't that reason enough?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not surprised. Well . . . I don't know anything about the lyre, but I think you're really good.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[And you get a real smile, as opposed to her normal calm mask.]

Do you play anything besides the piano?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

I'm coming with you. Or at least you're telling me when you're 'keeping an eye on him'.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
In the mornings, when he delivers the milk. I'm just watching Ricardo and the neighboring streets.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
But why do they want to torture us? Why do these things happen at all? They've made it clear that they want us to keep on living in this town . . . Some people've even guessed that they need us here. But if that's so, they're not doing it the right way. A lot more people would want to stay if the town wasn't so horrible.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Um.

[Suddenly, a series of flashbacks: The moment when Lucas had decided he ought to take up an instrument. Lucas screeching horribly on the violin and breaking every string. Lucas reaching a pitch inaudible to humans on the clarinet and sending every animal in town into paroxyms. Lucas sitting in a pile of discarded instruments and frowning. Lucas finally sitting down at the piano.]

I've tried a few, but I decided on the piano in the end. I thought it sounded the nicest.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Then I'll deliver my papers there at the same time he delivers his milk. And if anything ever happens, just yell for me.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods.]

It is a beautiful instrument.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, it's a deal. And if he brainwashes me and makes me violent or crazy or something, make sure I don't hurt anyone, okay?

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