5th transformation . spam & open video

[permutates]

[ spam ]

[ She's been working herself hard. Maybe too hard: she spends hours a day in the gym, sometimes as many as eight when she's not sleeping. She's read books on how to get in shape quickly and safely - more or less - and she's pushing herself as far as she can go. Trying to find her limits.

Today, she can also be found coming out of the CTS with Kelsier, bruised and mussed and a little bloody, and grinning ear to ear. If you're trying to impress me, it's working, he tells her, and she kisses him on the cheek and flushes bluer and makes her way to the Infirmary to make sure she's got nothing worse than bruises.

She hasn't reached her physical limits yet, but emotional is a different story. Being a child again, with that faith in Charles, has shaken her. Her conversation with Charles before that shook her. And sometimes, even when she's feeling fine - maybe when she's feeling the most fine, paradoxically - she starts crying. And sometimes she can't stop. Tucking herself into a corner of the gardens and trying to muffle the sounds of it so no one catches her at it. It's embarrassing, and she can always eventually manage to pull herself together and make it back to her room. ]

[ video ; open ]

[ Raven is blue, with red hair, not hiding. ]

What's something you've done here, for the first time? Or thought or realized, for the first time.

[ She's not sure what she's looking for. Maybe a little hope. ]

Comments

[breathoflight]

Much of what I've done here has been a first. I've never seen the technology here before. Or imagined it possible for that matter.

[permutates]

I know a little of that. I've never seen music made so... compact before.

[breathoflight]

I'm not sure I understand...

[Do you mean make smaller instruments? 8c]

[permutates]

They can put it in a little box... thousands of songs. Not on a record.

[breathoflight]

I'm afraid I don't even know what a record is.

[permutates]

It's... a kind of waxy circle, shaped like a doughnut? Um, a circle with a hole in it. You put it in a machine and the machine plays music from it.

I'm not really sure how it works.

[breathoflight]

[...Snow has no idea what the hell she's talking about. She can understand waxy and circle, but that's about where her understanding stops.]

[She tried though, so it seems a little rude to be like "what even???"...]

And now they've made it so a box can play music?

[permutates]

It's electronic, somehow.

[breathoflight]

Perhaps it works something like these communicators.

[permutates]

Why don't you come over? I have one of them, and I have a record player.

[breathoflight]

If you're not busy, I would love to.

[permutates]

Nope! I don't have an inmate, and all I'm doing otherwise is training.

[breathoflight]

Then I shall be over in a few minutes?

[permutates]

Sure!

It's Snow White, right?

[breathoflight]

Uh, yes.

[Not that she's paranoid or anything - really, she's not - but how do you know her name???]

[permutates]

Alex mentioned you.

[breathoflight]

[Oh, well that makes sense. c:]

[Wait, Alex was talking about her? Uh...]

I hope it was in a positive light.

[permutates]

Of course.

[ gurl. ]

[breathoflight]

Now I feel as though I should be concerned he said too much.

[Not that she's displeased. Quite the opposite, actually.]

[permutates]

He just said you were a friend.

I'll see you soon?

[breathoflight]

[Okay, good. c: Because Snow doesn't like the whole queen thing to be like immediately how people know her. Not that she feels there's something wrong with being a queen, but she'd like to be a friend and she knows how queen can instantly make everything awkward for some people.]

Of course.

[And she'll be over there for all dem girly times in a few minutes!!!]

[permutates]

[ A while later, and she may or may not be giving Snow a braid headband (like so) or something. There has been music. And maybe ice cream. ]

So, you and Alex are friends, right?

[ s u b t l e good keep going Raven. ]

[breathoflight]

[That's a little weird there, Raven, but Snow keeps her skepticism to herself.]

Yes, of course. He was one of the first people to help me when I first arrived on the Barge.

[permutates]

How much would you say you like him?

[breathoflight]

[Snow looks at Raven a little questioningly. Yep, you are not the smoothest criminal here, gurlfrando.]

How much?