✽Thirteenth Post - Voice✽

[flyingdreams]

[Filtered from Gamzee]
[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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[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

[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.

[voice 1/2]

[flyingdreams]

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

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

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

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

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

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.

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

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...]

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

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.

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

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?

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

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

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

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!!]

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

[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.

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

Ah... goodness.

I do consider myself normal... it does make it quite hard to keep up with this craziness, though...

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

Heh, it has been pretty nice to talk to another woman. The only one I've spoken with since I got here is my daughter and she's just a teenager, everyone else from my world and--heck--even my friends back home are all men.

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

Oh, I think I would go mad!

[She laughs.]

I'm just a mouse, but I don't think it would be so different if I weren't.

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

A mouse, huh?

[...She doesn't sound very bothered by that.]

I don't think I've met a talking mouse before! Talking cats, dogs and foxes, yeah, but not a mouse. I'm a human myself, I hope you don't mind that.

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

[At this point, she's a little relieved she doesn't have to deal with the shock and awe. It's been a long stay in Vatheon...]

No, of course not. You seem like a charming woman.

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

That is generally what I go for!

[Except when people are. Y'know. Assholes.]

My name's Bulma, by the way.

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Mrs. Brisby.

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

Hmm? Just Mrs. Brisby? Would you rather people didn't know your first name around here?

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

Well... I'm simply more used to it, than anything else.

[It's clearly meant to be something more than that.]

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

You miss him, huh?

[It sounds like a question, but it's really more like a statement.]

[voice]

[flyingdreams]

...Yes... I miss him so much...

[voice]

[vulgarwoman]

Oh...there's nothing wrong with that. Your husband sounds like he was a great guy and there's nothing wrong with wanting to carry on his name, even if it's in a small way.