Tenth Feather ƸӜƷ Video / Voice

[amberguardian]

[Kohaku has been quiet for a while. She's been in the forest most of the time, to find new things, and animals, but most notably can currently be seen from her journal. Placed at just the right distance away from a new and very pretty tree she found. (Though with a few less colors.) But the silence is broken soon by her laughing. This is something very new to her, even if other people can't hear it, it looks so new.

And the amazement is quite clear in her voice.]

I've seen so many plants before, but this is the first one that I've ever found to have more than one personality!

...I have no idea how I'm supposed to talk to it though...Talking to more than one plant at a time is already confusing enough...


[Then much later in the day-]

Uhm...I've been avoiding asking this for a long time, but...is there anyone that would be willing to teach me how to swim? I've never been in a lot of water, but I always hear that it's a lot of fun...

And it seems a little strange to be so old and have never tried it before...though I haven't tried a lot of things.

Maybe it might be a good idea to make a list of things I should try some day...
 
...

...That would be a really long list...

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[Voice]

[amberguardian]

[...]

I'm sorry, but I don't know what a casino is...

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

Are you kiddin'? It's a place people go to gamble.

[Then again, it probably isn't her kind of thing, so he shouldn't be surprised.]

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

[She feels so bad when she doesn't know things...]

...I don't know what that is either...

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

[He hesitates; this is a harder thing to answer. Having worked in the casino for years, it all seems so natural to him. And he doesn't want to make her sad for not knowing.]

It's... Have you ever played, like, Old Maid before? You could play it without money or you could bet on who was gonna win--that's gamblin'.

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

Oh, yes. I know about card games...so gambling just means you play for money?

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

Pretty much. Everybody puts somethin' in and hopes they get somethin' out of it. Most a' the time they don't, though.

[He sounds cheery about this.]

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

Why not? [Why would you play a game you usually don't win??]

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

'Cause it's in the house's favor.

[Hastily (and falsely), he adds:]

Not that we cheat or anything.

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

But why do they play if they know they aren't going to win?

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

They like the excitement, I think. I mean, there are some dumb enough to think they'll win, but most people do it for the rush and the very, very small chance they'll get somethin'.

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

Well at least it's fun.

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

That's one way to look at it.

What about you? What'd you do back home?

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

I used to have a job, singing to new angels, but now? I take care of a garden. And I go shopping for Shuichiro, since he has a hard job.

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

...Singin' to angels?

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

To wake them up!

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

...Are angels really sleepy or somethin'?

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

No, just the new ones need to be awakened when they're ready, and only a...[What's a good word to use..?] certain angel can do it.

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

Huh. So that angel must be really--

...Wait, wait, wait, that's you?

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

[Oh yes, she laughs.]

It was. Someone else has that job now.

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

Do they really just let you leave a job like that? And just for a garden and some guy who can't do his own shoppin'?

[Why are you questioning an angel, Firo?]

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

Sort of. I broke many rules, and fell in love with a human...I couldn't stay in heaven anymore.

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

Damn. Sorry to bring it up.

[It sounds like it would be a darn interesting story to hear. Having conversations that would needle him, though, Firo tries not to press in that direction. His clumsy change of topic is probably too obvious to be tactful.]

...So why can't you swim? Aren't angels supposed to be good at everything?

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

It's alright. It's just...odd to explain why I can't go back to heaven.

[She actually likes talking about how everything happened! She just still feels a little bad she broke the rules.

And sorry, more laughter. You can almost hear the 'yeah right' in it.] Maybe good at everything in heaven. I messed up everything so badly when I first got to Earth...and it's not like I wasn't able to learn so many things. Like...I can fly, so there was never a reason to learn to swim. I'm not even sure the Archangel of water knows.

[She can't...picture her swimming.]

[Voice]

[foundafamily]

["Odd"? The whole thing sounds odd, if you ask him.

Her laugh startles him.]

You did? ...You don't seem like most a' the idiots I know.

[Voice]

[amberguardian]

[Everything is odd if it involves Kohaku it seems...]

Well...a few things would be; I got suck in a tree, got attacked by a bird...and a cat with two personalities, fainted every time I saw a dead animal...I couldn't even protect myself when a demon attacked me.

[Though the last one she can blame on the sun.]