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[planet_rin]

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[Video: Rin, outside somewhere, lying on her back, looking at nothing in particular. The camera's on the floor next to her, and the feed is sideways, making her look like she's dangling from a window or something.]

[For a long moment, she doesn't say anything.]

I wonder if I'm a cloud.

It would make a lot of sense, really. A lot of the thoughts I have feel like cloudy thoughts, all white and fluffy around the edges. I'm always drawn to the sky. One might think that clouds don't have haircuts or one-sided conversations or fresh fruit, but I've never asked one. Maybe they do all that after they float off past the horizon.

Then again, I guess I'd know for sure what clouds do past the horizon, if I was one. Dang.

Maybe if I just lie here, I won't have to remember more stuff. I ate an orange today.


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[Action! Rin is out by some building in Sirocco. Surrounding her are a variety of painting supplies, and a half-finished mural that's been slowly forming over the past week or two.]

[The mural is fairly abstract, filled with vibrant colors, and seems to hint at some greater complexity just outside of conscious perception. There are lots of pieces of what seem like familiar sights, but they're blended together in surreal patterns that defy any attempt to make sense of them. As for Rin, it's hard to tell if she notices anyone else being here or not - she has a look on her face as if she's in her own separate world.]


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[To call the sound you hear from your dorm a "knock" on the door is sort of misleading. It's a single loud, fumbling thump, like someone half-falling over onto the door with a random side of their body.]

[When you open the door, Rin is there.]

Hello. I need to borrow your window.

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[all_onis_are_true]

Why would you want to borrow my window?

[planet_rin]

[A pause. She seems to be considering this seriously.]

Do you ever have a feeling like you saw something in a dream you were just having, and you don't think it was real, but you still have to check to make sure?

[all_onis_are_true]

Well...

*He thinks of all the memories he's gotten back in dreams. She does have a -- hang on a damn moment.*

Wait, what exactly are you checking here?

[planet_rin]

It's like that, but without the dream.

I need to see out this window to make sure. My room's on the wrong side.

[all_onis_are_true]

*Oh. ...wait, what the HELL?!*

Are you suggesting your room somehow moved on you?

[planet_rin]

What? No. Rooms don't move, unless they're elevators. I just can't see what I'm looking for from over there.

[all_onis_are_true]

Oh. Uh...

Well, I guess you can look, but I don't really know what you're looking for.

*He opens the door wider.*

[planet_rin]

[Rin walks past Hiroshi, and peers intently out the window for the better part of a minute without saying anything.]




Oh well.

[all_onis_are_true]

You sound disappointed.

[planet_rin]

It wasn't there.

[all_onis_are_true]

Something tells me I'm going to regret this, but what wasn't there?

[planet_rin]

I don't know. I was hoping I'd recognize it when I saw it.

Your room doesn't look very lived-in.

[all_onis_are_true]

I suppose that depends on your definition of lived in. I suppose I don't exactly decorate a lot, if that's what you mean.

Though there is Montfort.

[planet_rin]

That's a good name. I think. It depends on what it's a name for.

[all_onis_are_true]

An octopus actually. It's a bit of a long story.

[planet_rin]

That's too bad. I don't think it's right for an octopus.

[all_onis_are_true]

Actually, he's named after Pierre Denys de Montfort, a French naturalist who was discounted back in the day for studying giant octopuses, but may have led the way towards research into giant squids.

[planet_rin]

What does Montfort think about this?

[all_onis_are_true]

I'm not exactly fluent in octopus to find that out. If you really have to know, try asking Mokona.

[planet_rin]

Is Mokona another octopus?