[video] un: eleven

[savingthrows]

[ The video clicks on to a young girl, perhaps 14 years. Her round eyes look a little unsure, brows drawn together in concentration as she figures out how to work this new tablet machine with the stupid name - it's not liquid. She's learned how to operate the application tools back in Beacon, so it's a transition rather than a completely new skill.

Eleven sits cross legged on her bed, half cast in the light of the strange lantern sitting right next to her. She sets the Fluid down on the nightstand, then briefly leans out of frame and picks something up that looks like a beak shaped, half plague doctor mask, distractedly scratching at her neck, where healed scars looks as though something once grabbed her by the neck. Finally, she stops fidgeting and looks at the camera. ]

Hi.

[ She speaks with a pattern that might strike as odd. Sometimes halting in odd places, or saying words slowly, as if she has to place them on her tongue very deliberately. ]

Is there an angel? Here? I need a... miracle. Or maybe. Someone old, with magic?

[ She glances down at the mask, worries her lower lip between her teeth, then adds: ]

There's something in here. It smells like... where I'm from. Home. It's fading. I lost my friend who did the... miracle. So it's fading. But it's important. [ She swallows, lips pursed. ] To me.

[ The things unsaid sit deep in her chest and ache - the home she lost months ago. The friends she lost along the way. A short, deep breath, she gathers herself, serious face relaxing into something softer, but still somber. ]

I can pay. With glitter pens. Or birds, if you have paper.

[Another small pause. She's about to reach out and shut the video off, when she remembers lessons learned. Right - manners. Or the attempt at them. ]

Thanks.

Comments

[progeny]

He's my father. But...he hasn't met my mom yet. [it's complicated] I think we're friends though.

[but anyway-]

I was given a Bible when I arrived here. You can borrow it if you'd like.

[savingthrows]

[ Eleven looks utterly puzzled, because she's not sure that's how mothers and fathers work, but then...

She doesn't want to think of Papa.

Not now. ]

Is it. Difficult? I'm... I can read, but. Not... super well.

[progeny]

I...don't know.

[given that most of what he's read (that doesn't come from the internet) has been something from the men of letters archives, he doesn't really have much to go on]

I can help you read it, if you want.

[savingthrows]

[ That's something she brightens at. ]

Yes.

[ Oh this poor soul won't understand a single thing. If only she knew. ]

I would like that.

[progeny]

I have to go back to the house to get it. But I can bring it to you.

[oh, and also-]

I'm Jack.

[savingthrows]

Jack.

[ She repeats the name, then nods. ]

I'm Eleven. [ A beat. ] Name, not age. I'm 14.