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✽Thirteenth Post - Voice✽

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[Mrs. Brisby's post is hesitant and shaky at best. She decides not to go with video, to try and keep her composure, but her voice is very obviously wavering. She's trying to be strong, but it's not easy. With Mother's Day having just passed, she's dwelling on a very difficult subject.]

Are there any other mothers, here? Or even fathers, I suppose.

...How are you coping with not seeing your children?

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Ha! Don't worry, I don't, and you definitely shouldn't either. He's rude and violent and downright nasty.

Good for you! Any girl who says a man like that is "not that bad" is just so preoccupied with thinking they can "fix" them.

Nothing good comes of an aggressive husband!

Ugh, I hope I don't end up actually marrying that ogre. Things are complicated as they are, I don't need a husband that's liable to kill me.

Exactly! You're better off finding a good, gentle man. A man who will be there for you.

[Aaaaall the dramatic eye rolling!]

My husband was a good man. He was very clever, but he never raised his voice or his hand to me or our children.

Well, to tell the truth, I already have a man back home--that's part of what's making this whole future children thing so complicated. And he is a good man!

[Ambiguous faithfulness to her aside!]

He's gentle and sweet and helpful...[all the dreamy siiiighs~] I miss him so much.

Goodness. I do hope nothing bad happens to you! You seem like such a nice girl.

I wouldn't settle for a brute, even with Johnathan gone. Even if I didn't have my children to consider!

[But she may or may not have considered a particularly charming rat, back home.]

[...That brings an eerie sense of clarity to her. She has children in the future, he's their father, she doesn't want to be involved with him and her children...]

My kids...geez, my kids, they think he's actually a good guy after all. That can only mean he's never been in their lives.

I have to wonder if he changes in the future, even a bit, if you have... future children with him. But... that just seems to imply all the wrong things, if you ask me. I wouldn't trust a man like that.

I know! If you ask me, I think if anything he just puts up a good act. He turned around and started acting all nice to me when I got here, after I mentioned knowing someone he's in conflict with. So you know that he was planning on getting my trust and exploiting it.

That does sound suspicious! I wouldn't trust a man like that anywhere near myself! After all, who knows what--

[She suddenly gasps, covering her mouth even though she can't be seen.]

Oh! What... what if that's where your children come from? From a charade like that? How dreadful!

[MRS. BRISBY YOU ARE NOT HELPING]

...Hmm. Not my son, in the time he's from his father is dead.

[She didn't reeeally want to pull more complicated timeshit into this, but it's rather inevitable.]

And it doesn't sound like something I'd fall for, I mean...he's not very good at it. Being nice and all. It just looks awkward when he does it.

Well, that does sound quite a bit less suspicious. I had gotten the impression that he was a... political sort.

[Man, how do you even describe what he actually does? The lady she's speaking to sounds like she's from a much, much earlier time than any of them. Before Bulma's parents were even born.]

Nope, just a grouchy guy from a planet of grouchy people that are born to fight. So he's more like a soldier than anything else.

[And a prince, so technically politics, but she doesn't know that part yet.]

He's not really dangerous here, though. My son and my best friend's son are both stronger fighters than him.

[She can't help being from the good ol' days, in the simple folk's land.]

A... planet? I think I've heard that word before, but I don't recall what it means... and... I've heard of a soldier, but I don't know much of what they do.

[Oh boy. Don't ask a scientist questions.]

A planet is what we live on! It's a big, biiiiig world out there--and we're not even the only planet in existence! Although Earth is one of the only planets that have life in our...um, corner. [Tossing around words like "galaxy" and "universe" might be bad.] As evident by this place, anyway.

Soldiers...they're people that follow the orders of one or more person that's in charge of them. It can involve defense, direct combat or--well, mass killings in his case.

Oh, yes, "other worlds" I think is what I was told before! Everything seems so frightfully big--

[She... almost goes completely silent, but she sounds absolutely terrorized when she finally does pipe up.]

M... M-mass killings? He's a murderer?

Yeah. I told you, liable to kill me!

He's probably destroyed whole planets before. He probably would have destroyed Vatheon itself if he had a way to get off-planet and if my son wasn't stronger than him. Thank goodness I raised him right.

Even before I got here, someone from his group killed my best friend. It's like I said, Miss, he's not to be trusted under any circumstances.

Y-you would do very well to not trust a monster like that! I would not even be near a monster like that! How truly horrifying!

[Oh... oh poor Mrs. Brisby. Such a simple life you used to live...]

There's nothing to worry about, ma'am! He's a monster and all but that doesn't mean he's an idiot, he wouldn't do anything to me or anybody else in Vatheon.

Really--everything will be okay.

That's... that's not my concern! People like that, who kill others, they're simply dangerous! Why would you put yourself in danger like that?

...Well, when you have friends like mine, danger and adventures are sort of part of the package.

Part of the package?

[She sounds... so distraught! What she wouldn't give for a friend who isn't so... so... comfortable with things that should be respected and feared!!]

[Sigh.] Yeah, I've been dealing with this since I was a teenager. I guess life would be dull without them, but on the other hand sometimes I wish I had normal friends.

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