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It Might As Well Be Spring [Open Video]
Date: March 20th, 2019; after school
Characters: Network Number {235 13 892 33} ; Action open to family
[As the video begins, the sleeve of a lightweight knit sweater covers the view as the broadcast as Nel makes an adjustment to the angle of the phone. Gentle, she releases the device and withdraws her hands slowly before taking a few steps back to bring herself into the frame. The view is somewhat elevated and shows Nel standing in the family backyard. The grass looks a little more vibrant than those belonging to neighbors or elsewhere in Mossgate thanks to her time playing around outside this afternoon trying to burn off the excess energy that makes itself known as she addresses the Network.
As she talks, her words are hurried and there's a light bouncing on her heels as she attempts to stand in one place with modest success.]
Hallo everyone! I thought it'd be nice if I shared the gift Father Christmas gave me! I decided today is a nice day to wake the seeds up and so I have these here-
[She gestures to the few pots she has set up with dirt in them beside her, and in front of them rests an opened gift box.]
-to put them in. Then I started holding them trying to pick which one I want to grow and oh they look brilliant in my head and I knew I had to show them to everyone cause they're absolutely beyond anything else anywhere!
[A gleeful giggle breaks from her in anticipation, and she claps her hands together with excitement. Rather than take a simple step over, she springs in a hop to land in a crouch and reaches into the box to retrieve one seed out of the packets within. Leaping right back up to her feet she hurries over to the camera to hold the seed up close for a slightly blurry view of what looks more like a chunk of ice topped by a bit of lint than a plant seed.]
See? It's already so nice, but watch this!
[Scurrying back to one of the pots, Nel minds the camera enough to go to the opposite side and crouch there. She digs a hole down into the dirt with her finger, and drops the little seed down inside. A sweep of her hand covers the dirt, and then she lays her hand over that same spot in the pot as she closes her eyes to focus. Coming quite fast, the vibrant green coloration overtakes her hair nearly to her shoulders as she calls her magic to hasten the growth of the plant. What follows is the sight of her raising her hand upwards with the tip of the plant pushing up against it within the little sparkles falling from her hand. The stem of the plant twirls as it rises upwards, and as it gets taller, small buds shaped like diamonds form at the sides near the top, as sharp and crystalline as ice. Her second hand comes underneath the lowest bud, and the largest buds at the top open at the tip to spread out flat into thin sheets that rather resemble snowflakes without separate petals. By the time the last of the top three buds open, the plant itself is nearing a meter in height with Nel now standing. Her hands lower away as she stares wide eyed at the sight of what she had only pictured in her head previously, and with a squeal, she jumps away from the pot to start running about.]
IT'S SO PRETTY!!!!
[She goes out of frame, then a few seconds later, crosses in a cartwheel with her long red hair trailing behind.]
Characters: Network Number {235 13 892 33} ; Action open to family
[As the video begins, the sleeve of a lightweight knit sweater covers the view as the broadcast as Nel makes an adjustment to the angle of the phone. Gentle, she releases the device and withdraws her hands slowly before taking a few steps back to bring herself into the frame. The view is somewhat elevated and shows Nel standing in the family backyard. The grass looks a little more vibrant than those belonging to neighbors or elsewhere in Mossgate thanks to her time playing around outside this afternoon trying to burn off the excess energy that makes itself known as she addresses the Network.
As she talks, her words are hurried and there's a light bouncing on her heels as she attempts to stand in one place with modest success.]
Hallo everyone! I thought it'd be nice if I shared the gift Father Christmas gave me! I decided today is a nice day to wake the seeds up and so I have these here-
[She gestures to the few pots she has set up with dirt in them beside her, and in front of them rests an opened gift box.]
-to put them in. Then I started holding them trying to pick which one I want to grow and oh they look brilliant in my head and I knew I had to show them to everyone cause they're absolutely beyond anything else anywhere!
[A gleeful giggle breaks from her in anticipation, and she claps her hands together with excitement. Rather than take a simple step over, she springs in a hop to land in a crouch and reaches into the box to retrieve one seed out of the packets within. Leaping right back up to her feet she hurries over to the camera to hold the seed up close for a slightly blurry view of what looks more like a chunk of ice topped by a bit of lint than a plant seed.]
See? It's already so nice, but watch this!
[Scurrying back to one of the pots, Nel minds the camera enough to go to the opposite side and crouch there. She digs a hole down into the dirt with her finger, and drops the little seed down inside. A sweep of her hand covers the dirt, and then she lays her hand over that same spot in the pot as she closes her eyes to focus. Coming quite fast, the vibrant green coloration overtakes her hair nearly to her shoulders as she calls her magic to hasten the growth of the plant. What follows is the sight of her raising her hand upwards with the tip of the plant pushing up against it within the little sparkles falling from her hand. The stem of the plant twirls as it rises upwards, and as it gets taller, small buds shaped like diamonds form at the sides near the top, as sharp and crystalline as ice. Her second hand comes underneath the lowest bud, and the largest buds at the top open at the tip to spread out flat into thin sheets that rather resemble snowflakes without separate petals. By the time the last of the top three buds open, the plant itself is nearing a meter in height with Nel now standing. Her hands lower away as she stares wide eyed at the sight of what she had only pictured in her head previously, and with a squeal, she jumps away from the pot to start running about.]
IT'S SO PRETTY!!!!
[She goes out of frame, then a few seconds later, crosses in a cartwheel with her long red hair trailing behind.]
[Action]
How come? People bring plants from other places sometimes, don’t they?
[Action forevers]
[He shrugs.]
I don't know if it'll do anything bad. But I'd like to keep an eye on it, just the same.
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A tree is harder to grow... But I can ask!
[Hand taken from his arm she pivots and skips her way back over to the icy flowers. Reaching out to touch the plant, she visibly shivers with a small giggle, then quiets as she focuses for a few seconds, eyes half closing. Focus ending in a blink, she withdraws her hand and skips directly back to her grandfather.]
Other than being chilly, it’s trying to bring something.
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[Sam opens his mouth, but she's off already. When she comes back, he's just accepted it.]
I'm glad it's not going to grow into a tree. I was just using that as an example of magic plants that don't belong on Earth, that do weird things. What's it trying to bring?
[Because that's mildly alarming, to be honest.]
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Shoulder brought to her ear in a brief shrug, she answers with the bit she could glean.]
I don’t know what exactly... It’s like how a flower wants a bee to come? Or a buttefly. It’s trying to be attractive. So...maybe it wants something that likes cool things to visit?
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It probably wants to be pollenated so it can make more of itself.
[Because that's what flowers want out of bees and butterflies.]
*butterfly
[Puzzle solved, the child looks back over at the gathered pots and then beyond them around the yard. Half musing to herself as much as her grandfather, she asks.] ...do you think Mummy and Mum would like a new tree? I kind of want to try now.
Re: *butterfly
I'd ask before you try that, honey. They might have plans for the backyard already, and trees are pretty big.
[He just hopes her idea isn't yet another unearthly species. They have enough trouble with invasive plantlife as it is.]
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[The idea is put back for later, and Nel skips a few steps away only to rotate forward with hands overhead and one leg coming up before the other in an attempt to hand stand. Her first attempt is too gentle, and the second brings her fully up to balance for a mere second only to tip to one side with a bright giggle.
She really cannot help herself.]
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You're a lot more hyper than usual. I'd expect your brother to be racing around doing handstands and falling over, not you.
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I know! I feel like I ate a whole bag of sugar without getting a tummyache. And I haven’t had any candy for days! I can’t even sleep!
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Kind of strange how just a few months ago, you could hardly get out of bed, and now this.
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It is really weird and I wish it would stop. Class was awful today!
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[He watches her to make sure she's not going to fall over-- or rather, that if she does, it's not onto anything dangerous. He fully expects her to fall over before too long, here.]
Any thoughts as to why?
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I got sleepy when it was cold. But it’s not hot. So I don’t think it’s the weather.
[Then as expected, she topples over to lie in the grass.]
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[He considers what else it could be.]
You didn't get any more pulse things, did you?
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Nnnnnno... I don’t think I’ve eaten anything different.
And no new pulses since my hair went and turned into water.
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[He shoots her an amused look so that she'll know he's teasing.]
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Or both!
[Chin placed into her hands to rest as she keeps her feet moving, Nel honestly thinks about it.]
I’ve only had four...maaaaaybe five pulses? I remember four.
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Could be related, then, I suppose. What were your four that you remember?
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The last one was when the tsunami hit and my hair turned into water. Before that, when I was playing hide and seek the day the poppy flowers were all over. I don’t know what that was. Then on Halloween I got another I’m not sure about...and my first one just a few days before that when my terrarium started growing. I could help plants grow after that one I think.
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[There’s a dramatic flop to accompany the sentiment face down in the grass, then after barely a second’s pause, she rolls back onto her back with hair trailing behind. Sitting herself up, she rises up to her feet.]
I hope this doesn’t last as long as when I got sleepy all the time.
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[He's not actually serious about that, and he looks like it.]
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I’d rather get on a giant hamster wheel.