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[sawthelight]

- in the world is this thing?

[the video's turned on mid-sentence, making it apparent that the blonde, freckle-faced girl currently poking aimlessly at the screen of her phone has absolutely no idea how to work it]

Oh! I can see my face on it! Is it some sort of mirror? [tilts it a little, looking to the side, where a small green chameleon is perched on her shoulder] What do you think, Pascal?

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[puellaknight]

[ She doesn't notice the chameleon right away ]

Who are you talking to?

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[sawthelight]

Pascal, of cour-

[wait, what?! Have some extremely shaky video as Rapunzel drops the phone in shock, barely catches it before it his the ground, and manages to right it to peer at the screen, eyes widening as she sees someone else's face there now rather than her own]

Um... hello? [nervous smile.]

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[puellaknight]

[ She smiles at her ]

Are you all right? I didn't mean to startle you!

[ Then she notices Pascal ]

Aww... he's cute.

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[sawthelight]

[that smile gets a little warmer, and the chameleon puffs up proudly. He likes compliments.]

He is, isn't he? And he knows it, too.

[and deep breath. This is really weird.] Um, so I guess... this thing is magic, huh?

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[puellaknight]

[ She's laughing ]

The phone? Not exactly, it's just technology.

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[croibhristeoir]

It's a communication device.

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[sawthelight]

[eek! She looks around for the source of the voice, startled, then looks down at the phone and gasps, lifting it up to tilt it this way and that as if trying to figure it out all over again]

Wow... I didn't know there were things like this in the world...!

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[croibhristeoir]

Apparently there are.

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[sawthelight]

Wow...

[she wants to spend all day trying to figure out how it works, now, but she realizes suddenly that she's being sort of rude, and laughs a little]

Oh! I'm sorry. I'm Rapunzel, it's lovely to meet you! [bright, bright smile, though there's an edge of nervousness to it. This feels like a weird dream, really.]

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[croibhristeoir]

It's alright. My name's Diarmuid, it's a pleasure to meet you as well. [He smiled, trying to put her a little more at ease.]

[pardonmylanguage]

[Book characters, and now movie characters? This is getting kind of ridiculous. Still...]

It's a communication device. It lets you see or hear people who aren't right next to you.

[Suddenly, a tabby cat leaps up, trying to attack the delicious green chameleon behind the glass. Gratuity manages to hold her back.]

Pig, NO!

[sawthelight]

Oh! [she's very startled, but the sight of the kitty quickly eclipses any panic she might be feeling over being talked to over some strange device, in a strange place, and she smiles]

He's a very handsome kitty. Is Pig his name, then?

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[pardonmylanguage]

[Huh? "He"? Gratuity continues holding Pig back for a moment, eyebrow quirked in confusion.]

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[pardonmylanguage]

Oh! Pig's a girl! But yes, that is her name. Sorry, I think she wants to eat your chameleon...what's his name?

[She didn't actually watch the movie, plus she doesn't want to cause an existential crisis.]

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[sawthelight]

Oh! I'm sorry, Pig. [she laughs] That wasn't very nice of me at all, was it? Ah- his name is Pascal.

[and yes he's currently posing as if to say "bring it, cat."]

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[pardonmylanguage]

Ah. [Gratuity doesn't say much more, because she's still trying to hold on to Pig, who now has developed a determined expression that seems to say "Challenge accepted."]

We'd better not let them meet in person.

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[fourteenthscion]

A phone, Miss.

[Oops, he's in your video feed. Taking all the space.]

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[sawthelight]

Eek!

[why you startle the princess Neah D: her face disappears from view for a moment as she fumbles not to drop the phone out of surprise; when she regains her grip on it, she peers at him with a rather anxious smile]

I'm so sorry. That was really surprising! [she's never gonna get used to that] A 'phone', you said? Somebody else said that too, but I still have no idea what it means!

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[fourteenthscion]

[Grk. Cloverfield angles. Not very good in any situation. Either way, he was kind of used to it by now, so he just smiled pleasantly.]

That is alright. [A pause, and he thinks about how to explain a... phone.]

A phone is a device you use to communicate with others. You ah... Can send messages to people on the island. You can also call them via audio and... video. Like what we are doing now.

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[sawthelight]

I see... [someone's gonna have to teach her how to properly use it, but she gets the concept, at least!]

So it's an island, then? Where we've been brought? How interesting... And you come from somewhere else entirely, too, right?

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[fourteenthscion]

Correct. While we are free to leave the island and travel this world, we are not allowed to go back to our own.

[He nods.] Right.

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[caliberill]

It'd be a pretty weird mirror, don't you think?

[He smiles at the screen, raising a brow.]

[video] I LOVE THEM clearly because I can never get to anything in a timely fashion either orz

[sawthelight]

[Rapunzel squeaks, startled, and stares at him with wide, wide green eyes]

It's even weirder now...

[video] OKAY AWESOME glad to hear |D;

[caliberill]

[That gets a small laugh out of him. He raises a brow.]

It's not a mirror, that's why!

[sawthelight]

I... I guess not! [nervous laugh] May I ask, then... what it is?