❀ 5th petal [written]

[bravelittlegirl]

[Ib's handwriting is the careful but slightly awkward cursive of someone who hasn't been writing cursive very long.]

How come this keeps happening? I mean the thing where we're suddenly in a new place every couple of weeks. It's really confusing.

[pause...]

And every time it happens, somebody dies. I don't want anyone else to die. It's awful, and it needs to stop. I wish we could just stay at the castle.

Comments

[princeandwizard]

[Did... she just say 'someone dies' when these happen? That's certainly unnerving for a newbie on his first world change to hear. Especially when he's in his home city. What could possibly happen here?

But he'll try to be optimistic here. Even from writing, it seems like the writer is possibly scared.]

I may not be well familiar with the castle's magic, but... we're in my home town. As far as I'm aware, we should be safe.

Are you alright?

[bravelittlegirl]

Yes, I'm okay.

[That's a surprise, though. She's only been in a couple of world changes herself, but...]

Your hometown? Does that mean we're all back on Earth?

[Because EVERYONE IS FROM EARTH, right?]

[princeandwizard]

Yes, we are. We're in Japan- Tokyo to be exact. It even looks like it's the era I grew up in.

[Man, Tokyo without the buzz of Angelic Layer feels so weird now.]

[bravelittlegirl]

"Era"?

[she assumes the word means something like "neighborhood," from context, but she wants to be sure.]

[princeandwizard]

A certain period of years. It seems like we're somewhere in the 1980s, and I happened to be born in 1982.

Dictated

[pastina]

[Guess who decided to open his journal to read it today, and has no idea it can record what people say?]

Someone DIES?!?

dictated back

[bravelittlegirl]

[fsdkal;fjdksljflsjkl. she blurts her answer out before she can stop herself.]

No! [wait no that's a lie.] N-not always! [SO IS THAT.] That is - I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you...

DICTATED VERY LOUDLY

[pastina]

[Well you're a little late on that front, hun, because guess who just experienced having a book talk back to him.]

EYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bravelittlegirl]

Ah - Italy! Please don't scream!

[pastina]

[He's breathing pretty hard for a moment, very much afraid, but there's one scrap of sense in his brain, and he uses it.]

I-Ib? Is that you? How are you talking from the book, are you stuck in the book? We've gotta get you out of there!!

[anytime]

the castles not so bad yeah
a little boring but not too bad
the random teleportation shenanigans leave something to be desired though
like damn at least send us somewhere with a high speed internet connection

[bravelittlegirl]

[oh dave. your large vocabulary is gonna be too much for this poor girl. ;u;]

What does "shenanigans" mean?

[anytime]

what
for real

[bravelittlegirl]

[???? kind of wondering whether she said something wrong...]

Yes? I don't know what it means.

[anytime]

[......]

how old are you
and i mean that in the least creepy way possible before chris hansen pops out from behind my door

dictacted;

[hatedbyfanboys]

... Even when the Castle sends people to normal places?

writtennn

[bravelittlegirl]

I don't know. It's never sent us to a normal place before. [at least in her limited experience.]

[hatedbyfanboys]

How long have you been here?

[bravelittlegirl]

Since April.

[hatedbyfanboys]

Hm.. so a little before me... What were the events before the baby one?

Dictated

[wizard_redfive]

The castle likes to shake things up every so often. It used to be we'd only get these world change trips every two months, but it appears Paradisa has upped the pace.

[Oh, welp.]

People don't always die in new places. Sometimes it can be quite nice, actually.

written 4evs

[bravelittlegirl]

[a long pause.]

Really?

Dictated 5evs

[wizard_redfive]

Really. The first world change I dealt was Paris, I believe, and no one died. The experience was pretty good in fact, other than the kissing fairies, but that's a Christmas thing. Unova was nice too.

In fact, over the year and a half that I've been here, I can only think of three times when people died during these changes.

[bravelittlegirl]

[WELP that whole first part kind of lost her - she's heard of Paris, she thinks, but kissing fairies? "Unova"? whaaaat

The gist gets across though, mixed feelings included. Only three times in a year and a half, and of course she had to be there for two of them.]

That's not fair at all.

[wizard_redfive]

What isn't fair?