[ At first, there was silence. Then, several names were shouted... and then there was a shriek, followed by the sounds of someone running away.
That was half an hour ago. This impromptu nature channel has been recording the forest since the crashing shrieker disappeared. Only now... something is coming back. Something... loud.CRUNCH CRASH
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... We wouldn't have to look for it if you'd just taken it with you.
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[ She's grumbling, all with the undertone of, "Yeah, would you have?"
She's getting tired of dragging him around during his unrecoverable periods, even if it was reassuring -- not that she'd say that. Anyone who honestly wanted to keep their enemies closer than their friends could stay awaaay from Liz Thompson for a long, long while. ]
Besides, after everything, would you trust an unidentified book that was talking at you?
[ Happily forgetting the fact no one had actually addressed her personally -- something she knows now. ]
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He has a stubborn look on his face when he reforms next to her and keeps walking, but then after a couple seconds he looks a tad nervous again.]
... What do you mean "after everything"?
[He asks distractedly as he looks in the other direction warily.]
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Don't tell me you've forgotten about the book that fast.
[ She doesn't see how he can, with what he and Maka appeared to have gone through. ]
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Excuse me! Did I hear you say you've lost your journal?
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Hey, yes! Yes, can you hear me? I kind of -- [ panicked and ran ] -- dropped it earlier. Are you talking from a journal right now?
[ Or are you lurking in this here forest as another person perhaps better at tracking than Liz or the currently uneasy Soul? ]
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That's right. If you follow my voice you should find your journal.
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Right! That makes sense. As long as you're talking, there's not that much out here to hide it. Only... plants. Plants that better not have thorns.
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[ Not a bad thing, it helps focus her attention and gives her more to follow in her search for -- a book.
She's tired of books. At least the ones that don't have to do with school (as bad as she is at absorbing material from the ones that do). ]
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Did you just get here?
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Just before it started raining.
[ It is highly impractical to be wearing a white dress IN THE RAIN IF ANYONE CARED ]
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It's got to be -- ah! I think I see it!
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Just tell me to keep talking for however long you need.
[Because he'll gladly talk to pretty girls all day, any day.]
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Why couldn't they all still be in San Diego? ]
As long as I can keep you on the line --
[ ... In other circumstances, that so could have been flirtatious! ... Maybe.
There's definitely some crunching and shifting of foliage, along with the muffled sounds of light rainfall. She may indeed have located the journal! ]
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