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paradisa2013-05-10 05:11 pm
whichwayyoulean) wrote in paradisa2013-05-10 05:11 pm
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Twenty Eight Truffula Trees
[Friends]
[He'd meant to do this yesterday, but the Lorax arriving had thrown him off. Still, the forest guardian had done him some good. It meant he had to try to piece himself together again, or at least start to. But there was something more important to attend to now. After losing Zelos and House (the memory of watching the latter die engraved on his brain and refusing to leave) he needs to know...]
Okay guys, if you could tell me if you got out of that mess now would be a really great time. Don't make me come looking for you, because I'm pretty sure someone in here will drag me back to bed before I can pathetically shuffle as far as the door. We'd be at it all day.
Just...check in.
[Mom]
[He didn't want to make this filter. He'd rather her not know where he is. Perhaps, even, he has the smallest hope her visit in the castle was brief. Enough to shake him up before she went home again. One last wonderful stab in the chest to remember her by.
...But she's still his mother. And he still needs to know if she's okay]
I asked after you. Where were you? Are you still here?
[He'd meant to do this yesterday, but the Lorax arriving had thrown him off. Still, the forest guardian had done him some good. It meant he had to try to piece himself together again, or at least start to. But there was something more important to attend to now. After losing Zelos and House (the memory of watching the latter die engraved on his brain and refusing to leave) he needs to know...]
Okay guys, if you could tell me if you got out of that mess now would be a really great time. Don't make me come looking for you, because I'm pretty sure someone in here will drag me back to bed before I can pathetically shuffle as far as the door. We'd be at it all day.
Just...check in.
[Mom]
[He didn't want to make this filter. He'd rather her not know where he is. Perhaps, even, he has the smallest hope her visit in the castle was brief. Enough to shake him up before she went home again. One last wonderful stab in the chest to remember her by.
...But she's still his mother. And he still needs to know if she's okay]
I asked after you. Where were you? Are you still here?
Friends/Written
[He's not sure he can get more to the point than that Once.]
Blues
Once-ler
[That "fine" sure is convincing isn't it? Aren't you convinced Once? Yeah, he's torn up about his robot rampage, but he won't admit to it.]
You?
Blues
Do you need fixing up?
I've got nothing I can't easily survive.
Once-ler
Good.
...Later. You said you can't leave the clinic. Take care of yourself first.
Blues
Once-ler
[Well and a big old dent on his face. He just wants to be a hermit like you right now Once.]
Blues
Once-ler
I'll let you know.
Blues