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[fallforthesky]

[It's been a while since Lenalee has addressed the network. For lack of anything to say that wouldn't be a rehash of what everyone else has already long gone over, maybe. Something like that. There's only so much she can bring up with a group of people she doesn't know or understand, after all

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VOICE

[foundanewdream]

A-ah, I'd like to help with wishing everyone happy birthday on their birthdays, if that's alright? I just have my cleaning to occupy me.

[Not saying a thing about her own, she doesn't know when it is.]

VOICE

[fallforthesky]

[A bear is a better idea. Or a moose! Are there moose in Russia...?

Rapunzel's question hits right at home. Lenalee feels her breath hitch, but hopefully it doesn't carry over the network quite the same.] I do.

[More than she can put into words, and she surprised herself with how easily she admits it to a near-stranger. So many pieces of her world are here with her (duplicates, too), and yet she still misses them as if they weren't.] My brother. He means the world to me and we haven't spent more than a few weeks apart in almost ten years. And Miranda... Krory... Reever. The entire Science Department. [She takes a deep breath; one that feels tight across the chest.] People I'm used to seeing every day.

VOICE

[foundanewdream]

[There might be. We should googlefu the wildlife of the area. x: See what they might run into. Though Rapunzel never lured any animals with her singing, just people.]

Me too, I'm used to seeing my mother every day. But now that I know about the outside world I know I can't stay locked away like I was. Even here. [A light laugh.] But at least they're all better off being at home?

VOICE

[fallforthesky]

[There do not appear to be moose. But there are deer, elk, and wild boar and also wolves and foxes. I suggest going for the elk and boar.

Rapunzel's life back home is something she knows about only through virtue of snooping around other public feeds, and even after this long, it still bothers her. Being locked away is unfortunately something she can identify with very easily, and it just pings her in the worst ways.] Mm. The world really can be an amazing place. It's just unfair that now we're all trapped in a part of it that none of us belong in.

...they are. [War and all, and isn't that sad?]

VOICE

[foundanewdream]

[Should be simple enough, let's get all the girls to go sing in the middle of the wilderness! See what we get while the boys lurk in trees and things.

She'd probably talk about it more if everyone didn't look at her as if she had three heads when she did. It was the way she grew up and while stories had different ways of growing up for some kids, it's the way that she did and she still sees nothing wrong with it. Her being locked up - in her eyes for right now - wasn't a bad thing, it was to protect her and her secret.]

But we can still make the most of it! Try and find things that remind us of home and bring it in, make this place better for us all.

They'll be fine, Lenalee.