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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.]

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[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] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if you say so!

So, how have you been lately?

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[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
. . . You're very naive yourself if you think that.

[There's your insult, Porky. Have a hang-up.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
. . . What's wrong, Mr. Sideswipe?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Can you show me how to use a camera, too?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
How about you? Christmas and everything wasn't too hard on you, I hope.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
S-Sorry . . . You might have to describe it. I'm not very familiar with musical instruments outside of the ones the DCMC play -- Um. They're a band.

[That isn't supposed to exist in his world, but that would take too long to eplain.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

. . . If you have any other ideas, you can let me know, Miss Harley. I'll tell you when we try to start this project.

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

[Lucas turns it around slowly so the man can get a better look at the sketching. It is . . . sketchy. It's obviously not intended to be perfect or anywhere close, and it bears the quality of a young person starting out -- Some features are wrong, and the anatomy, though overall sound, is flawed in several areas.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Are any of them comparable to what you have?

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Christmas. It... they made me feel things. Others' things.

... the drones. They're... in agony.

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
... not really... but finding better technology isn't really the point...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Um. I . . . I've been OK.

[He can be more honest with Kay.]

Christmas was pretty hard on everyone, I think. And now another holiday's coming up soon . . . And there's still a lot to think about.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
What?

[This is his instinctive reaction. His intelligent reaction, after a few moments of thought, comes shortly after.]

What was your Christmas wish?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Just something different is interesting enough?

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
... yes...

... it's especially interesting to see technology that deviates from the norm...

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't... remember. I just--Jolt said the town made me... feel what other people... did.

[Because Jolt was a lot more rational at the time.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Is she smiling. She is. Possibly. This is the first time Lucas has seen Nanashi smile. He is encouraged, a little.]

You've seen my tea table, right? Do you have anything like it?

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.....well the town m-made me think my siblings we're starving to d-death...

That w-was not f-fun.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

The town made you feel the way the drones did. That's what you're saying? And they were in constant pain.

[Lucas's grip on the phone has become hard enough that it is hurting his hand. He doesn't notice.]

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
... living furniture is banned in my home world, but I've seen it in others...

...

... is it magical or mechanical...?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
. . . That's awful. I'm sorry, Miss Ukraine . . . What was it you actually wished for?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
We don't have magic where I come from, but it might have to do with PSI. The people who made it couldn't use PSI, though . . .

[That is a hesitant, roundabout way of saying he thinks it might possibly perhaps be mechanical.]

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's an instrument quite similar to a guitar here.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Valentine's Day, huh? I wasn't around for that one last year... do you know what kind of stuff happened before?

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
... do you know if it's sentient...?

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