audio & action @L.Mills forward dated to April 8th

[thestoriesarereal]

[The audio turns on to the sound of silence for the first few seconds before Lucy asks her question.]

If you could have one wish, what would you wish for? Not like...money or anything. Not for powers, but what would you really wish for?

[Because it's her birthday, and she wasn't really in the mood to celebrate. Of course, she'll wish for her family to be okay, for them to remember and come here so they could meet Victor. But...would that be a waste of a wish? Sure, wishes were powerful, but she was in another world, and she didn't think they would be strong enough to pull her family from one realm to the next...

Or, maybe she's just over thinking things. Maybe she just wants to talk and not think about her birthday.]


[ooc: Lucy's birthday is on April 8th, so here's her birthday post! She won't say it's her birthday, not yet anyway. Either way, this post can double as action too. So have fun!]

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[thestoriesarereal]

[Well, hello new person.]

...Being 'normal' isn't something you really want. It's not fun...and it feels like part of you is missing.

[killthepast]

[ He can't imagine what it's like to not feel the Force. Like he's lost a sense, probably. And he does love that it's a part of him...

But sometimes he thinks he'd give it up if it meant the darkness would go with it. Here, over these past few days, at least he's had a chance to experience life without that looming, invisible presence. ]

But you've got friends, right? And people aren't scared of you?

[thestoriesarereal]

Here? I have a few friends...and I'm [She sighs, she doesn't like describing herself this way.] I'm a kid, so I'm not scary.

But...back home...the people I love, they're cursed and they don't remember who they are. So they're 'normal' but they don't remember our home, our lives...they think it's all stories and nothing else.

[killthepast]

[ There's something sad, and beneath it all, bitter in the smile he gives. ]

Kids can be scary. Sometimes, people fear them.

[ And then he pulls a face, thinking about that curse. ]

Then they're not normal. That's not who they are.

[thestoriesarereal]

[She can see the sadness...and the bitterness of it. Adults try to hide their emotions too, and only some can really mask it.]

Mmm..I guess anyone can be scary, but...it depends. Maybe they don't mean to be scary, but people can't see past that.

But they're made to think it's normal--so normal is.. [What's the word?] different depending upon who you ask.

[killthepast]

[ AND she hit the nail on the head. ]

....yeah.

[ Ben mulls that over. It's an interesting perspective, and he's not sure what to say at first, except: ]

Are you the only one who's not cursed?

[thestoriesarereal]

[She has a way of doing that.]

My grandmother and great-gradnmother, befriended a werewolf. People thought she was scary, but my family looked beyond that and they were great friends for a long time.

Mmhmm. I remember....and in my world, people just think I have an overactive imagination, or I'm reading too much into things.