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lifenet2018-04-02 01:27 am
buryyourfriends) wrote in lifenet2018-04-02 01:27 am
Languages 101
[Now that everything has calmed down, Seto can ask a question that's been rattling around in his brain. So there's a new message on the Rock of Communication in messy handwriting.]
Hi. I hope this is okay to write on.
Is there a way to talk to someone who can't talk? I don't think something like that is in my world, so I don't know if there's something like that.
[Well there was a way to talk to someone without words in Seto's world but he's not touching that with a ten-foot pole.]
I'd like to learn if there is a way so I can talk to them more. I'll be here too sometimes if you want to talk in person. I have a blue jacket on.
- Seto
[And indeed Seto can be found by the rock, if anyone would rather speak in person.]
Hi. I hope this is okay to write on.
Is there a way to talk to someone who can't talk? I don't think something like that is in my world, so I don't know if there's something like that.
[Well there was a way to talk to someone without words in Seto's world but he's not touching that with a ten-foot pole.]
I'd like to learn if there is a way so I can talk to them more. I'll be here too sometimes if you want to talk in person. I have a blue jacket on.
- Seto
[And indeed Seto can be found by the rock, if anyone would rather speak in person.]
rock-text
yes
[Succinct. That's our Drifter.]
takes time to learn
rock-text
Also talking with your hands sounds really neat.]
Can you teach me?
[He'd like to learn for a friend.]
rock-text
when
rock-text
rock-text
i will come
rock-text -> action
- Seto
[And true to Seto's word, he can be found waiting by the temple. Much like up on the island where that giant machine had appeared, the temple had Seto's complete attention.
He really wants to explore it but he said he'd wait. Seto wasn't as experienced as Ren when it came to waiting but he was going to stay put.]
action
[They're distinctive from the start, and they recognize the boy's distinctive blue jacket - both from his announcement and a familiarity with him out of necessity. The same color as their skin, which he saw entirely too much of when Lup hauled them from the Water.]
[Nonetheless, they lift one gloved hand in a wave, tugging the fabric of the cloth around their face a little more securely into place.]
action
But it's probably for the best this way. Seto returns the Drifter's wave with one of his own and a smile.]
Hi Drifter. How are you?
[It's uh...asking without directly asking if they're okay now. Between the two of them, the Drifter had been the worst off.]
action
[It would be disingenuous not to acknowledge it, and so they do. If it is reluctant, it does not show. They simply incline their head in solemn greeting - the absolute portrait of calm to contrast the unpolished, uncontrolled thing they were on Ai'tuoh.]
you
action
So yeah. It's not a surprise.]
I found Ren and Crow again so I'm okay.
[Because that's all that really matters in the end.]
They're both okay too.
[Since he knows the Drifter knows Ren and all.]
no subject
your help was appreciated
in your debt
[Even if he tries to deny it, the way so many here do :| ]
no subject
That's okay. But if you're ever in trouble again, you can come find me. I'll help you as best as I can.
[Seto may not be as strong as some people here or have magic, but he'd go above and beyond for a friend.]
And if I learn how to talk with my hands, we can talk more too, even if your friend isn't here.
[Meaning the Drifter's communicator floating nearby.]
no subject
it is non sentient
[These are concepts a child would understand, yes. But it saves them the trouble of having to acknowledge the earlier sentiment - implying they ought to turn to children for aid.]
no subject
It reminds me of a fairy from a storybook.
[The ones that his Grandpa read to him on the odd occasion. They usually were helpful to people.]
What else can it do?
no subject
intuits what i need
labels enemies/allies
no subject
[It really is and, if Seto is being completely honest, he wants to touch it and find out everything it did. What the symbols meant on the map, how it was displaying the Drifter's words, how it could tell the difference between enemies and allies. It was the same feeling he got whenever he encountered something in his world from an age before he was born - like that box-thing that might be a mirror but was something else instead.
It's obvious from Seto's expression that he's curious - he's never been good at hiding what he felt for too long - but he'll hold off. He didn't want to break it by accident.]
Did you learn to how to speak with hands before finding it?
[Seto can make an educated guess about it - either the Drifter learned first and then found their friend or they learned incase it broke.]
no subject
learned after voice died
[They were not born mute, nor were they born a drifter. Both language and sprite were achieved out of necessity, just the same as their occupation. A lonely searcher, desperate for a cure, could not afford to do anything but drift in the hunt for it.]
no subject
Seto can connect the dots there, that they did have a voice. He knows about 'death that really isn't death' - his Grandpa had a more complicated word for it - but this was the real kind of death. The kind Seto knows too much about.]
You're still very loud.
[It's a weird thing to say, but it's the best way Seto can put it.]
Do you want to start now?
no subject
[The Drifter bows their head, ever respectful.]
if you wish
yes
no subject
So instead Seto nods and smiles.]
I do.
We can wrap this here because I don’t know asl
[So they will begin.]