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[littlesoul]

[She's perched on the highest spot she can find in the lobby, her journal clutched against her chest. This isn't anything like she's used to, nothing feels familiar. Her heart is beating hard in her chest and her hands want to start shaking.

Her mind is racing, filled with the thoughts of so many people around her. The night before, she had achieved some kind of calm, she remembered that, but now, with this new, strange turn of events, she's falling again, lost amidst the sea of thoughts around her.

She scribbles in her journal at a feverish pace, the words small and pushed together as she tries to hold back panic.]

Lost.

Lost, lost, lost, lost.

Fell into the black and landed here. Fell and fell and fell until I hit the ground. I can't remember how to get back, too lost to see clearly.

Can someone pick her up again? Can someone put her back where she belongs?

Too loud.

Can't go high enough, can't find a way out, can't find anything that I want.

Ship, she needs a ship again. She needs the sky.

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[nukeoleptic]

That, then.

[ She lifts her hand to point at a small cluster of stars in the southwest corner of the sky. ]

Tadpoles.

[littlesoul]

[She looks pleased at the little deceleration and and stares u at the sky herself.]

The verse is just a sea of black and we're riding through the waves.

[nukeoleptic]

What next? It's your turn to make one up.

[ She'll just nudge River softly, smiling. ]

[littlesoul]

She looks up, studying the sky for a long moment before speaking. There, a bird. The cluster of stars she points out only marginally looks like a bird but she doesn't' care.] It flies to the tadpoles and delivers messages from the other stars

[nukeoleptic]

I bet the tadpoles have a lot of messages for the other stars.

[ This.. is nicer than she would have realized before. Never has Jade come up to really study Paradisa's stars. ]

[littlesoul]

[It's nicer than River expected too. She didn't think she would find a friend or peace or any of it so quickly but she has and its' wonderful.

The tadpoles send their messages to everything that will listen. They are very chatty.

[nukeoleptic]

What do they like to talk about?

[ Jade has decided that she likes to listen to River talk. ]

[littlesoul]

Everything. They talk about everything.

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Everything. They talk about everything. <i[She looks over at Jade, laughing softly]</i> They're talking about us right now.