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ahiru (duck) | princess tutu ([personal profile] danserai) wrote in [community profile] deernet2021-11-08 04:47 pm

( video | un: duckling )

[ the feed comes on by itself. ahiru hasn't realized she's turned it on as she's pouring over these pamphlets intently, talking out loud because that's just how she functions. ]

Okay, so to get food, I need to make money. To make money, I need a job . . . What do they have?

[ she looks over the first pamphlet. ]

Healer! That doesn't sound so bad! Something something . . . "mini . . . ministration . . ." Blood? Eugh, no.

[ she tosses that one aside. ]

Next one . . . Hunter.

[ a beat. she stares at it. it stares back at her as if it knows her secret. she immediately scrunches it up, tossing into the trash can because she's not an animal.

( just a bird. that people may hunt?? duck confit is a thing. ) ]


This one! This'll be the one! Arcane scholars . . . "They either wish to consume all the knowledge they can or share all the knowledge that they can." . . .

[ another beat. she sighs. ]

Well, I'm not smart enough to be one of those. Aaaah! I'm never going to get a job! I'm going to starve! I'll never be able to have bread agaaaaain.

[ doom is clearly at hand. ]
subject_013: (Stairway to the Sun)

[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-09 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Because it happened to me. I'm not at liberty to discuss it, but I found something of myself that I thought I had lost.
subject_013: (Stairway to the Sun)

[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
As paradoxical as it sounds, you can find what you didn't realize you were looking for. The problem is, not looking too hard, in case you push it out of your reach.
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[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
It's a pleasure. It's what we Sleepers do: offer what we've seen and experienced to help those who arrive here on our heels.

And here I've been prattling on, sharing what wisdom I can, while I've been anything but a gentleman and failed to introduce myself.

Call me Wesker. I'm an old friend of Luz Noceda, if you know here.
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[Audio]>[Video]

[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-09 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
You're in good company then: she's as wise as she's energetic and equally as energetic. Luz and I met in this world's predecessor while we investigated some of its secrets, thus we share some history.

[The device might blink and the video comes up, showing a blond man in a black suit, his royal blue shirtsleeves rolled back, a weasel with a whitish glow about their eyes perched on his shoulder.]

It's a pleasure to meet you.

[He bows his head and tips one black half-gloved hand politely as he speaks.]
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[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-09 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles, tightly as if he's still getting used to it.]

It's an honor.

["Oy, she's a cute bird," the weasel says.]

Cypher, be a gentlebeast to the young lady. [He glances at the weasel, almost like a Lord with a bumbling servant.] Don't mind my Omen: he's everything I'm not.
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[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-09 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Don't mind Cypher: he's fond of using British slang, and in that terminology, a bird is a cute girl or young woman.

[To the weasel, he adds] Meaning essentially he referred to you as a cute cute girl.

["Boss, yer 'arsh on me jokes," the Omen objects, but the boss ignores the critter, outside of smirking at the linguistic gaffe.]
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[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-11 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
['Just Cypher'll do. Omens like me don't stand much on titles. Pleased t'
meetcher!.
the Omen gets up onto its hind legs and bows, one paw on his chest, the other behind him.]

Technically, it's Doctor Wesker, but I don't stand much on titles either, except when I'm working at the Lumenarium.

The pleasure's mutual.
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[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-11 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[An amused, even uncle-ish chuckle]

Wesker will suffice. Luz calls me that.
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[personal profile] subject_013 2021-11-12 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I trust you will. In the end, that is what matters in everything: doing ones best.