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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 2011-01-30 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
. . . That's awful. I'm sorry, Miss Ukraine . . . What was it you actually wished for?

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

[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 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 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Right. The things that happen in the past . . .

[Lucas trails off a little.]

It looks like the future holds more of the town acting up, anyway. There's a big holiday in two weeks, right?

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
...Are not always happy.

[She smiles.]

Ah-yes. The 14th is St. Valentines day.

Th-there would have been a holiday in my home on the an 25 of this month. But I don't think they have the day in America.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
They don't celebrate any of the holidays I'm familiar with here, either. I guess it's better that they don't ruin them, though.

. . . Is it OK if I ask I hear about the one you missed?

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's a shame you don't get to celebrate them. But yes, is nice we don't have to worry about them being ruined.

Oh if you would like. It is called Tatiana's Day, or Student day. Children leave their schools early and people have parties with their classmates or get together with their old ones. It is a day to celebrate learning and schools and just life.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
. . . That sounds like a lot of fun. We don't do things in school very often outside of dances every few months. Maybe we ought to have celebrated it, anyway.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
It is lots of fun. I always like going around to see the different parties people have.

[Beaming smile.]

It is wonderful to see them when they are so happy.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I almost think we should celebrate all the non-American holidays. If all the big American ones are going to be awful, then . . . why shouldn't we celebrate Tatiana's Day ourselves?

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
That would be a lot of holiday's to celebrate.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
We can pick a few. Or maybe everyone can take turns introducing holidays from their world.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's a wonderful idea! You should bring it up.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It would be nice if everyone in town could have something fun to do together, for once.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas will think about that for a few seconds before moving on.]

It would take a lot of cooperation to organize right, though. But it's something to think about.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps someday in the future.