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Jan. 7th, 2016 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Is it worki - oh. Ahem. This is Kesara Freamon. Please leave your message here and I will call back on you as soon as I can.
Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-
Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-
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Date: 2016-05-31 12:51 pm (UTC)It's almost like a bedtime story, though of course she's much too old for those.]
That is incredible. They really, truly do that - just do it? Rampage through shops like that? Have you seen it happen?
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Date: 2016-05-31 02:34 pm (UTC)[And added in some of the details from word of mouth, or even his own imagination in a couple spots.
But he hears the hoarseness in her voice, and the raggedy breathing. He takes a quick moment in his head to waffle, deciding whether or not to address it, before settling on saying:]
All right there, Kesara?
[He knows how to ask gently without being coddling, lightly without being flippant.]
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Date: 2016-05-31 04:43 pm (UTC)She hesitates when he asks after her, the strange audible kind of hesitation. To look like a weak child to Mr. Solomons is an appalling prospect. But she can spin it, she thinks. It wouldn't be lying.]
I found some things. Many things. The story doesn't have to be free. You'll want to know.
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Date: 2016-05-31 05:00 pm (UTC)[She does not manage to sound completely neutral about this.]
The park in the northeast is full of corpses. There is this structure - I'm not sure what it was for, but the underside is full of the dead, and none of them died naturally. Then I was in a house not far, and there I found two graves, and a bloodied old knife, and writing on the wall. Someone's killed themselves and their child so someone else wouldn't take them away. Their ghosts are still there - real ghosts, I saw them with my own eyes.
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Date: 2016-05-31 05:05 pm (UTC)[God. No wonder she's upset. Hiding it valiantly, but still.]
Can't say that wouldn't have chilled even me, Kesara. Right down to the bone.
Did the-- ghosts, did they communicate?
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Date: 2016-06-02 12:56 pm (UTC)They're - they're only dead people. I've seen those before. But the ghosts - [one of them was a child and the other, she thinks the other must have been the mother. She feels queasy to remember it.]
I couldn't get close. Something about them made me sick. I couldn't stay too long.
[It is not a lie, but it is a lie. She ran.]
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Date: 2016-06-02 02:36 pm (UTC)Which house are the ghosts in? Is it one that's marked on House's map?
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Date: 2016-06-02 04:11 pm (UTC)It's one of the easternmost houses - by the eastern wall, and up north. Forty-one on Dr. House's map. I'm still close, but - but I'm doing something else now. I'm looking for a tunnel.
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Date: 2016-06-02 04:16 pm (UTC)[Well, that's interesting.]
Have you got a reason to think there is one?
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Date: 2016-06-02 04:27 pm (UTC)[She stops. This is information - very valuable information. It ought to be shared, of course, with the community of explorers, but while it's all hers it has worth. Alfie had given her a story for free, but...
He'd also let her keep her dignity. He'd been kind to her. Truly kind.]
There was a ghost at the school, too - perhaps it was a ghost. I'm not sure. But someone appeared to me at the school and told me to go east and find the tunnel. I think there might be one under the slope, where the wall might have collapsed.
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Date: 2016-06-02 04:36 pm (UTC)Keep me updated, yeah? I'll trade for any information - in stories, skills, things I know.
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Date: 2016-06-04 11:32 am (UTC)I will. It's fair. You've got good stories to trade and I think - I think it'll be good if someone knows other than me. In case I die.
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Date: 2016-06-04 02:55 pm (UTC)[He's kind of worried, okay. At least she seems like she has an amazingly good head on her shoulders.]
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Date: 2016-06-06 03:48 pm (UTC)And you too, Mr. Solomons. You take good care - I know it's mighty presumptuous of me, but you take good care. Yeah?
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Date: 2016-06-06 03:52 pm (UTC)[It's not presumptuous at all, to his mind. If she can allow him to show care and concern, then he can allow her to do the same.]
I will.