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( Ellie's just sort of lying down by the vine, playing with a tiny tiny fruitknife. It looks blunt and useless, and like it's seen better days, but Ellie is just unfolding and refolding it. )

I've been thinking. ( A bit of a pause, and her voice drops, something like self mockery. ) Big shock, there.

So, if we're all here, and we're all... stuck. That means all our friends and people, they're either home, or they might just wind up here too, right? ( Hmm. Either she's got extremely muted enthusiasm, or she's confused by the idea. Or maybe both. ) Does anyone have friends here? Friends not from here, I mean, the sort that are imports from home.
( Again, with the dry side commentary. ) Like... wine, or something. ( . . . Well. There's Homer. ) Or cheap beer.

( Ellie shakes her head, brushing her hair out of her face. )
The point was... if you do, or if you don't-- do you wish your friends were here? Is it wrong, wishing that? Wishing that people you love where here, with you, when it means there'd also be... some sort of sci-fi-fantasy nightmare with... killer plants, or if... having them here, you being here meant that you weren't doing whatever stupid, important things you had to get done back home?

Or... ( she clears her throat ) something.

( ooc:: I have to zip out to work shortly, but I will backtag forever when I get home! )

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My sister is here. She's safer here than she was, back home, so I see that as good.

But... I miss a lot of people, and I wish they were here, often. But I wouldn't wish them to be trapped like this. I would rather wish to be home, myself.

Yeah. ( Ellie almost smiles, but it falls flat. ) I keep wondering about going home. If what they say about this place is true, and that you can't leave-- if it's really worth thinking that you'll be cut off from the people you love forever, and being okay with that because they're far away. At least if they're here, you know they're here, and how they're doing. You're not stuck... wondering.

I don't believe she'll keep us here forever.

[Can't is a better word. She'd probably break completely if she entertained the idea of never seeing her family again.]

I can still sense my siblings, she hasn't cut me off from them, so I know they're well. But there are others I worry about.

Must be nice, being an optimist. ( So flat. What is this vaguely positive notion you speak of? Impossible! )

Sense them? ( Oh God. ) Through... magic?

[She doesn't say anything to that first part, but her mouth thins a little. She thinks hope is very important, and doesn't really understand how anyone can dismiss it so easily. Still, she answers,]

Yes. That's the name most people give it.

You couldn't throw a rock without it hitting something magic in this place.

( LE SIGH. ) What name would you give it?

[She thinks about this for a moment, frowning a little.] I don't... really think we have a name.

They call us witches, and they call the shimmer in our blood 'the glitter', but what that allows us to do, those are just... abilities.

( Where there was magic, she should probably have been expecting witches. She wasn't, though, she rubs her forehead a little for a moment. )

Right. That glittery blood doesn't cause any medical problems, does it?

No. The opposite, actually.

That's a plus, I guess.

( A long pause. ) It's really weird to try and visualise. Like just... sparkling blood. Like it makes all the terrible things you see silly somehow, because there's glitter all through it.

It's more like... the way a pool of oil would catch the light.

[She goes quiet for a moment, herself.]

It's still blood. We're still human.

That's sort of interesting.

( . . . )

And morbid. God.

( What is wrong with you, Ellie? Talking to strangers about their blood, now? )

[She takes a breath, pushing away bad thoughts and managing a small smile.]

I hope you don't mind, if I don't offer to cut myself to show you.

Somehow I'll live without it. ( Dry. So dry. )

Well, now I have an idea what your blood looks like, it's probably all right for me to ask your name. Right?

[She dips her head politely, the smile stronger now.]

I'm Mahalia. It's good to meet you.

Ellie. Likewise, I guess.

( Social graces, what do? )

Ellie.

[Another dip of her head, then she thinks quietly for a moment.]

Is there someone you miss, then?

( Right. That was the point of this, wasn't it? )

A few someones. ( She sort of tenses up, rubbing at her jaw agitatedly. ) We work together.

( Whatever that means. )

Would you prefer them here, or would you... [She hums a little, thinking on how to phrase it.] just like to know they're okay?

( There's a long silence. ) I don't know. I want them here, so that we're all together... but Homer and Lee and Kevin couldn't be here, and that just leaves Fi... and Fi's pretty delicate. She might not be able to deal with this place.

So, I guess... I'd rather know they were safe.

I understand. I can't really imagine how I would feel, if I didn't have any idea how my siblings were.

Mm.

You get sick of people, you know? When you're with them all the time, you sort of want to just not be with them. Maybe just... be careful what you wish for, something like that.

[She looks really puzzled.]

That's never happened to me.

Never? ( Slightly incredulous. ) You've never gotten sick of anyone?

No. [She shakes her head.] I don't... really understand how you could.

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video; lolol sorry she's so volatile 8|

video; it's alright, it's about time Lia had someone to be prissy at

video; well, I am sure Ellie will be fabulous for that

video; she's a bit too sensitive on this topic to make her stick around, sorry :s

video; bksf lmfao no it's totally cool, she has that effect on people sometimes :'|