charcoalfeather | second feather- [Video]

[....Boy, it's a bit early to be making a video, isn't it? But it would seem someone's set on it, the way the feed settles on the open window of a room before it's turned around to show... Rakka. She seems rather awake, despite the early hours, peering down at her gear with those big eyes.]

Look at this.

[Quiet voice, Rakka. A simple thing to ask before she moves the screen again, jostling it but actually making it clear that they're going to the window and the gear is heading riiiight through it.

Outside the window was Violet city, obviously quiet and dark at this hour, though not so much now as it used to be. The street lamps provide decent illumination, but that's not what Rakka wanted the gear to see as she turns the gear around so it's facing upwards. Pointed into the dark night sky, you get an impressive view at the expanse of twinkling stars up there.]

They're beautiful, right? ...But at the same time they also seem strange. The stars here remind me of the ones back home. I was wondering if any of them are the same, or if I would even be able to tell. [Off-screen, Rakka breaths a quiet sigh.] Maybe not...

[She pulls the screen back into view of her again.] At least I'm getting used to this world now. It's been... [yaaawn] easier then before... Huh?

[Now is the perfect time for a couple of sleepy Doduo heads to poke their heads into the frame and seek attention via tenderly and repeatedly nudging their trainer. Absolutely. It helps sleep-deprived Rakka notice them.]

H-hey, what's wrong? I'm not doing anything...! [Wait, unless she... oops. Whisper time should still be in effect uuhhh] I'll go to bed soon, really...

[And the feed is cut there. Pleasant dreams, Route.]

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DID YOU EVER LEARN ANY CONSTELLATIONS?

[Well, he wouldn't want to ruin anyone's sleep.]

with how many stars there are surely we have to be sharing the view at least a little with people we know

[Even at one in the morning, Rakka can recognize that grey text.]

no, but I think I remember reading about them in a book one time.
hi, karkat.

[not ruining everyone's sleep is definitely a thing that all of them should be doing. Too bad it just can't be helped now.]

how many do you think there are?
when I look up at the sky, I always picture it like what an ocean would be. So it has to be really big

HEY RAKKA
OH. I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST SEEING IF YOU COULD FIND ONE HERE BUT THAT WON'T WORK IF YOU KNOW ANY. SORRY.

[The night sky here really is beautiful. All the lights back home make them hard to see, and Yachi's never had the opportunity to lie down off the side of the road and stare up at the stars twinkling between the canopy of trees like right now, too uneasy to sleep properly when she should be ready to leap out of her sleeping bag at a moment's notice of wild Pokemon calls. She turns around, leaning on her elbows as the video feed switches off, then types in a message for Rakka to read when she wants.]

There are an infinite number of stars in the sky. I'm sure some of them are the same as yours, and one of them may even be the same sun as back home. Thinking that makes me feel less alone.

Ooh. No no that's alright. I'm fine with watching the stars tonight anyway.

[She types as she yawns. Yup. Totally awake.]

do you know any constellations, Karkat?

DO YOU MEAN FROM EARTH OR ALTERNIA?

[Hint: he's stalling.]

[Stalling: an effective tactic on text. Rakka's a slow typer.]

Alternia?
Is that your home?

Edited 2016-04-09 05:10 (UTC)

[How many times had Rakka had the opportunity to do that? Watching the stars was one of the highlights of her trip, despite the less then stellar conditions. But it's better now, nicer. Warmer.

She didn't expect to have so many people answering her. Do you people not sleep too?]

It helps me too. I know that time seems to stop back home when you're here... but it still helps when I know they're looking at the same sky as me. That way we're still connected.

[... He was not prepared.]

HOME PLANET, YEAH. DID I FORGET TO TELL YOU BEFORE? WAIT OF COURSE I DID, WE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT OTHER THINGS.
YOU TOLD ME WHERE YOU WERE FROM THOUGH, RIGHT?

[It's hard to sleep a week into a new place that isn't her own bed. Doubly hard when it's outdoors in the darkness without the luxury of street lamps. And triply when you've got a Totodile lying by your side with jaws of sharp teeth softly opening and closing while he sleeps, trying to trust each other more but not yet at 100% sure he won't have a midnight snack.]

Is that true? If I never get home, they're stuck like that forever?

MY BROTHER WOULD LIKE THESE STARS! HE DOES ENJOY STUDYING THINGS ABOUT OUTER SPACE!

Edited 2016-04-09 06:33 (UTC)

[Is he ever...]

You might have? I can't remember, we were talking about a bunch of things back then.
Oh uh Glie?
Did I tell you about Glie? I think so. That's the town I was living in.

OK YEAH I CAN'T FUCKING REMEMBER, EITHER. WHATEVER.
WHAT'S GLIE LIKE?

[....What is this font. Uh.]

outer... space? He liked to study that?

yeah uh, whatever.
Glie is kind of like this, I guess.
I mean, there's no pokemon, or pokegears.
or tv
But I still love it. It's my home!

SO JUST AN ITERATION OF EARTH OR SOME PLANET LIKE IT THAT ISN'T AS TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED
AND WITH ANGELS, I GUESS. WAIT, IS EVERYONE THERE LIKE YOU?

Edited (i am fickle like ze wind) 2016-04-10 08:22 (UTC)

[Blake is sitting in an armchair, low-lit. There's a Snubbull across his lap, and a book in his hand with a finger marking his place.]

It doesn't make much of a difference. None of those ever look like what they're supposed to look like, anyway. 'Oh, here's a dot by another dot. That looks like a guy with a bow and arrow to you, right?'

HE DOES INDEED! HE'S GOTTEN SO MUCH USE OF HIS TELESCOPE SINCE WE MOVED TO THE SURFACE!

Oh no there's normal Humans too.
The Haibane coexist with the humans, they let us have stuff and give us jobs.
Some of them think we're good luck charms.

THAT'S... HUH. OK. DID YOU HAVE A JOB?

No
uh not yet.
I looked around and did a lot of work but I never actually got a job yet.

Oh
uh a telescope doesn't sound really useful when you're underground.

YEAH THAT MAKES SENSE. YOU'RE STILL PRETTY YOUNG.
IS IT WEIRD, LIVING AROUND HUMANS?

[What does this have to do with stars? Nothing. And he stopped stalling a while ago; he's genuinely curious.]

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