jan 25th. text.

[skittering]

Sender: Lalli
To: Everyone
Subject: owl

( written in sharp, scratchy handwriting: )

can make your owl stop screeching if you need me to

good at it. cousin's an owl sometimes

just tell me where to find you

Comments

Sender: Hunter

[hashtagwoof]

What do you mean your cousin's an owl sometimes?

[skittering]

his luonto's an owl

luonto's part of the soul. protects the rest of it. some kind of animal shape.

strong mages can take that shape in the dreamscape if they want. i think he likes the owl better. it looks mad

[hashtagwoof]

[ What. Is he not-texting some kind of soul wizard now? Because this sort of thing would make zero sense in the real world...

Oh, right. He's in Dreamland, not RL. Or his world. This is weird. ]

I take it the lumo thing applies to souls where you're from?

[skittering]

luonto

only if you're from finland. dunno if your world has it

[hashtagwoof]

I'm from the UK, and I'm pretty sure the last mage we had was Merlin. From a dozen centuries ago or something.

[ Of course, Merlin isn't supposed to exist. But if we actually had FATHER BLINKIN' CHRISTMAS show up in January... ]

Sender: Anya

[grandduchess_anya]

I tried singing to some baby owls while weaving some dreamotion energy to calm them down sometime ago.

I may have gotten a little carried away with it as I nearly put my partner and my dog to sleep.

[skittering]

did it work

[grandduchess_anya]

Why yes. It did really work. The owlets managed to calm down as soon as I began to sing to them.

[skittering]

how long did it last? the calm

( he's never tried singing - but then again, the owl he knows would've hated it. )

sender: emil

[enflame]

You can stop this one here from freaking out for star

❰ the handwriting is legible but shaky until the next letter is simply a long trailing line down the page. ❱

[skittering]

emil

??

[enflame]

Sorry it keeps flying around. I gave up so I'm hiding behind a rock.

That big one that's about 10 meters from our tree.

❰ since that was the original post's request, after all. ❱

[skittering]

not flying away?

( if it can fly, why hasn't it left emil alone? make no mistake, lalli is absolutely headed back that way to help. it's just... weird behavior, is all. )

sender: Oriphi

[hearthwarming]

Oh! Is your cousin a shapeshifter, too?

[skittering]

only in the dreamscape. mostly

in the real world once in a while but that takes too much energy. dangerous

[hearthwarming]

Oh, I see... why is that dangerous, if I may ask?

I am only curious because I can shift into other shapes outside of the dreamscape as well. In fact, I haven't quite figured out how to do the same within the dreamscapes yet...

sorry for the delay!

[skittering]

it's his luonto.

( here he marks a quick line to the spot in his chat with hunter where he says, luonto's part of the soul. protects the rest of it. some kind of animal shape. )

leaves you weak if you use it in the real world. have to sleep for days

Sender: Jiang Cheng

[legbreakings]

[ Browsing through journal chatter, he could have ignored the name easily enough and also the taciturn speech; for all he knows Lalli might be as common as being surnamed Jiang.

But can there really be as many Lallis with a fixation for people from ice land? For the ice people's sake, he hopes not. ]

Wait. You are the Lalli from the future who hates ice land people.

I didn't realize you made it here, too.

[skittering]

what




you came from asgard?

[legbreakings]

Asgard? What is that? I'm from the Containment Zone. And so are you!

I saw you mention a silent world to someone else. I know it's you. The annoying one.

[skittering]

( lalli's kneejerk reflex is to assume that this person has the wrong person. there are plenty of people named lalli, and there are even more people who think icelanders are stupid.

but they mention the 'silent world', and that's just enough to cast a shadow of doubt. after a long considering pause: )

don't remember it

wasn't supposed to remember asgard, either. dunno why i do.

Sender: Naminé

[lethechained]

[ Her words take a bit longer to appear than usual; she starts with a slightly hurried, ]

Do we have to

[ that falls off for a few beats, then is followed by a late, ]

catch it fir s t ?

[ There is a distinctly non-zero possibility that she's asking that with good reason. ]

[skittering]

no

i can do that

where?

[lethechained]

[ Naminé's profoundly relieved when she actually reads the message, despite her reluctance to ask too much of Lalli. There's a brief but noticeable delay before she replies; she's awfully busy, whatever she's up to, and her writing this time is a hasty, all at once scribble. ]

By the river, close to the middle of town.

[ She'd also like to offer her profound thanks, but, you know, that might have to wait for when she's not awkwardly trying to write into her journal as she runs. ]

Not sure how long

[skittering]

follow the river

( if she has to move, that is. he can find her if he follows the river and she sticks to the river too. (that's what he's doing, for the record - zooming off toward the river, though not without one more quick question: )

attacking you?

( some of the owls have more temper than others, he definitely noticed that in his limited experience so far. )