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[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

[There's a slightly green boy squatting just at the edge of the lake, giving it a very suspicious look. He warily dips a hand in the water before scooping up a bit to examine. Not seeing anything immediately wrong, he takes a few more handfuls and splashes himself with them, not paying much attention to the fact that he's still fully dressed.] Where am I? This is too big to be the pond...

((OoC: Not going to type out the lisp, but he does have one, just to mention.))

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[fortune_sought]

Goodness! [Sophie hurries over to the boy at a bit of a waddling run, as she is comfortably into the second trimester of her pregnancy now. but she isn't thinking about that right now; she's wondering just why it's always children these days. don't the people running this town have any respect for anything?]

Did you try to leave the town? Are you all right? [she slows as she nears him, huffing a bit from the run, her expression full of concern. to her mind, clearly he's splashing at the edge of the lake because the town dumped him there when he tried to leave it]

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

How do you know we're stuck?

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

[Jimmy watches her with wide-eyes.]

Yes? [Of course he's fine.] I wasn't trying to leave, I was looking for the pond.

[fortune_sought]

[well, that's a confusing answer. Sophie almost loses her balance as she stops short, but she manages to steady herself. she's still getting used to her shifted center of gravity. once she's had a chance to catch both her balance and her breath, however, she turns her attention back to him, still huffing a bit] The pond? Do you live near a pond, then? I'm sorry, but you won't find that here. You're in the town of Luministi.

[painlessfighter]

Because we've been trying to go home. I said that. But we can't. I think we need to find whoever is really keeping us here and hurt them. I bet that would work.

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

[Not finding that information very important (of course he can find the pond, he just has to look a little longer, and the rest of it hardly makes sense), he tries looking back in the direction she came, out toward the lake, and then finally back at her.]

Why were you running?

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

You don't know who they are?

[painlessfighter]

No. They won't show themselves. Cowards, I bet.

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

Or smart.

[summer-doors.livejournal.com]

Weeeeell, I can safely say that this probably isn't your pond. Or your world. I don't think anyone actually tries to get here, really...

[painlessfighter]

Or stupid. [Mumble, mutter...]

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

[That sounds much more interesting, and a lot like something the hag would be involved in]

Is it magic?

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

Why is it stupid?

[painlessfighter]

Hiding is stupid. If you're going to do something to other people, you should show yourself.

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

If they're going to hurt you, you should make sure they can't catch you.

[painlessfighter]

They started it! [Huff!]

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

That doesn't mean they're stupid. [This is starting to feel similar to an arguing with Sally.]

[painlessfighter]

[There's an instant shift in his attitude from aggravated anger to... calm, eerily serious anger instead.]

They still started it. And I'll make them hurt if I find them. They can't keep me here, I want to go home. I want to find Youji.

[It's said more like a promise than a threat, but it's still just as intense. And hey, have a tiny little smile to just make it even better.]

[fortune_sought]

[Sophie sighs, annoyed, and starts pushing her hair out of her face] Because I thought you'd been dropped here for trying to leave.

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

[He scoots back a step, but he's still listening.]

Who's Youji?

[painlessfighter]

[He remembers the fuss that Sophie raised when Natsuo told her the truth, so he decides not to use the word "sacrifice" this time.]

My friend.

[summer-doors.livejournal.com]

Uh, define magic. [Because, honestly, he hasn't really thought of that before.] I guess it could be?

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

You lost them? [Jimmy almost knows the feeling — it would have probably been easier if he had been able to lose Gracie.]

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

You have to swim to leave?

[pickedapocket.livejournal.com]

Is the hag here? [He's not really sure what answer he wants — if she's here, she can't kill the pond. If she's not, he won't have to worry about running into her.]