→ (( VIDEO ))

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[ When the device knocks on it's on its side, providing first a view of the bubble and the sharp of a knee, then there's some snuffling noises thanks to the corgi trying to...eat it - the device that is - and some sea-sick worthy footage before there's Arthur's voice, ]

Pancake, no! Not food. Bad. Probably lethal. Give me that...


[ Grabbing for the device, he gets it in hand and sighs, arching a brow at the camera seeing it's on, then, bored or whatever, he gives a once-around pan of his environment for the day, his voice equal parts resigned to his 24 hour fate and lazily annoyed. ]

Wonder who came up with this one.

[ Arthur likes his personal space. Really, he does. But...this is going a bit far even for him.

The bubble is sizable - enough so (six feet in diameter give or take) that he hasn't in fact left his room today, which he might not have anyway, not particularly interested in filling the parallel role of hamster-on-wheel. After he turns once in a full circle, he shuts the device off, the last thing transmitted being a slight mumble of, ] Could be worse.


[ooc: tags picked up later ;; last class now lol tests...]

Comments

[archivy]

Do you think, then, that anyone in particular comes up with the curses?

[signatures]

You ought to just stop moving before you knock someone's precious vase over.

[ His vase. ]

[dropkick]

Deities probably. Would make sense.

[ Pause. ]

Of course, just saying that makes me second guess it.

1/2

[dropkick]

Your vase.

[dropkick]

And I'm not moving that much.

Talk to Pancake.

[signatures]

Pancake is more interested in you and your bubble than anything else.

[archivy]

Most would agree with you, I believe.

[ She's not smiling, but gives off the impression of it, regardless, if only for a moment. ] It is good to second guess knowledge. It is rarely absolute.

1/2

[dropkick]

Which'd make him the reason for all the moving.

[dropkick]

Take him for a walk or something.

video:

[charring]

Wow. Everyone's bubble-wrapped today. Sort of bubble-wrapped, anyway. Seemed the best way to describe it. It was either that or something about hamster ball.

[signatures]

I took him this morning, it's someone else's turn.

Besides, he lays down on the sidewalk and makes me drag him by the leash.

[dropkick]

Even more reason to question it, [ he laughs slightly though how much he's joking is hard to tell, then he pauses.

The way this kid talks. No getting around it: ]

Uh. Sorry, gotta ask, how old are you anyway?

video:

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[ There's a chuckle for that, a twitch of a smile. Bubble wrapped. 8( He actually thinks that's kind of funny. Then he clears his throat, pauses. ]

Hamster ball's more what it feels like. At least they let you get things.

[ Arthur in a hamster ball without his daily doses of coffee would be an entirely different force to contend with after all... ]

1/2

[dropkick]

I'd do it, but...well, obviously.

Can't. What's Yusuf doing?

[dropkick]

Besides letting Rhada destroy more things that don't belong to either of them.

And hold on. You drag him?

[ B| ]

[signatures]

He needs to go on a diet.

And you could always go walk yourself.

Re: video:

[charring]

[She feels like making Arthur smile, even a little bit, is some kind of Epic Win. So he gets a small one in return.]

Yeah. You just can't be handed anything which I'm sure works for some. It's driving me nuts, though and I really wanted to go to work.

1/2

[dropkick]

He's eating what it says on the bag.

And sure, but not until the...'curse' is over. Your vase'll probably be tiny vase pieces by then.

[archivy]

AT times, that is indeed true. [ Now she does smile, though it disappears immediately. ]

I am eleven.

[dropkick]

You could at least take him out of here. Close the door behind you.

No walk necessary. Vase saved.

video:

[dropkick]

Hopefully it's just the 24 hour kind. [ Charlie's smile in fact elicits a broader one from Arthur, sort of a commiserating sense about it but genuine at that. ]

Where do you work, that you're so eager to go?

[signatures]

[ He meant, rather, Arthur go walk himself and stop exciting Pancake by simply existing with a bubble around him... but putting Pancake in the backyard seems the better idea. Eames inches around the other man to go let the silly, (obese) dog out in the yard, closing the sliding glass door afterward.

Then it's back to the TV. Problem solved! ]

[boutant]

[ LOOK PANCAKE, A DISTRACTION.

And by that, I mean Ariadne has just come through the door, home from work. ]

Re: video:

[charring]

Makes it sound like a virus when you put it that way, Arthur.

I work at the Jasmine Dragon. I like it there. It's what I'm used to and my coworkers are fantastic.

[dropkick]

[ Not hard to spot the immediate swap in sentiment and he feels bad without entirely knowing what makes the age thing so sensitive for a child but then she's not just a child and that's obvious too. Again he pauses. ]

...shouldn't have asked, huh?