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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.]
[Video]
[As fun as it may sound, she would not trust anyone her age to try. Especially when she cannot trust her classmates to even manage their bicycles safely.]
I guess you haven’t had very nice ones. I’m sorry.
Re: [Video]
It's not your fault, Nel, I promise.
The life I'm getting memories from is just very strange. And occasionally disturbing.
[He's being honest for Nel's sake - although, even though he doesn't know it, Nel's other's life is probably stranger. Nature sprite vs. Internet "sprite"!]
[Video]
[She hasn’t the verbal tools necessary to express that better than ‘sorry’.]
It’d be much better if everyone got some good memories and the talents.
Re: [Video]
I don't either.
What I'd most like to know is why we've come to have them - how these connections came to exist and so on.
[Video]
[As the tone lightens, she starts to become more animated again.]
Maybe we’re supposed to protect people? Or go exploring!
Re: [Video]
Though not as a group.
[Sadie and Ben had talked about what the three of them had discovered at the river; surely that wasn't the only opportunity everyone could do safely...
And as for protecting, well, Walter has been doing that, too, hasn't he? But not all of the other Numbered have the same chances he does, he knows.]
[Video]
We lose all our Numbers when we leave Mossgate, so it must be here somewhere!
[Off she goes after into another round of cartwheels.]