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: 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.

[legbreakings]

Well. I suppose that's not your fault if they messed with your memory.

[ He could still hold a grudge over it but since they weren't close, he is willing to let it go. At least until it can be recycled for upmanship. ]

So what is Asgard then?

[skittering]

land of the gods.

not mine. norway's gods. icelander's too i guess.

they were okay

[legbreakings]

You just said something nice about iceland!

[ Yes, this is the important message he is taking away from this. ]