One Moon ℂ Video

[claimyourself]

[A hand fumbles in front of the camera, then pulls back to show a teenage girl who is looking very confused and a bit scared.]

Where am I? What's going on here?

[She looks around her, then back to the camera. Bringing it closer to her face to better examine it, she narrows her unique eyes, one green, one gold.]

Is this some kind of sick joke? Did you do this, mother?

[The last word is spit out harshly. This is so not a happy mother-daughter relationship.]

I don't know what your angle is this time, but I don't want to talk to you. Send me home right now!

Comments

[claimyourself]

[The wind's been taken out of her sails already by someone else.]

So I'm learning.

I landed fine, though I don't really remember landing. I just sort of... was here.

[errandry]

That's kinda how it works. Most people get dumped into the fountain, though.

[claimyourself]

Wonder how I avoided that. It's a nice fountain, but I wouldn't want to just get dumped on it.

[errandry]

Good lu—nah, better not jinx it. Call it clean living, maybe!

[claimyourself]

I'd think fountain water would be pretty dirty, actually.

[errandry]

I meant why you didn't get dumped in! Iiii wouldn't touch the water.

[claimyourself]

[She gives a soft laugh.]

Yeah. I don't want to know what's swimming in it.

1/2

[errandry]

Hey, plenty of people came through it and lived to get dunked again—and thaaaat's probably not convincing, huh.

[errandry]

Forget that part. They tell you everything yet?

[claimyourself]

You mean about how we're trapped here and there are curses every few days? Yeah. Somehow I don't think that would sound good on a brochure, though.

[errandry]

Pretty sure the deities aren't counting on tourism.

[claimyourself]

What are they counting on? Doesn't anybody know why we're here?

[errandry]

They're not exactly big on answers. Mostly it just looks like they wanna see us cursed.

[claimyourself]

So we're just like their little pets?

[errandry]

... Nah, it's not like that. Doesn't even look like they pay attention most of the time.

[claimyourself]

It sounds more like we're their discarded toys then. Great.

[She sighs.]

If they don't pay attention, why do they bother? It sounds stupid to me.

[errandry]

Got me on that one. They're not exactly out to win prizes for Most Logical of the Year.

[claimyourself]

Irrational people in charge. Yeah, that's the way to run things. Just kidnap people and torture them for fun, but don't bother paying attention to them at all. This place really sucks already.

[errandry]

[ laughs—a little quietly, because at least she doesn't sound totally scared. ]

Kinda, yeah. It's not all bad, though.

[claimyourself]

I guess there's plenty to do, when we're not fending off curses.

[errandry]

Kinda depends on what you're used to, too! ... oh, hey—you know what microwaves are?

[claimyourself]

Uh, yeah, of course. Why?

[errandry]

Just checking how big a culture shock this is gonna be.

[claimyourself]

There are people here who don't know what a microwave is?

[errandry]

There are people here who still use alchemy.