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saveourearth2019-03-23 09:22 pm
ourearth) wrote in saveourearth2019-03-23 09:22 pm
Lost and Found [Mingle]
Date: 23-30.3.19
Characters: Open
It starts slowly, one by one: Items are being returned to people. Specifically, they are delivered to their mailboxes.
The items are very varied, and either pushed through the letter slot in the door or, if they're too big, just left on the doorstep: A wallet that was stolen last year, a coin that was dropped into the sea last week, or a toy that was left on a bus, a time capsule buried in the ground, an unwanted present purposefully forgotten at the train station. The only thing that they have in common that they are never perishables. It's all non-food items.
All items that are being returned must have vanished within the Mossgate Echo Boundary, but they can have vanished long before the person whom they are returned to gained their first echo/got access to the network.
They appear throughout the week, and then abruptly stop the evening before Mother's Day.
Characters: Open
It starts slowly, one by one: Items are being returned to people. Specifically, they are delivered to their mailboxes.
The items are very varied, and either pushed through the letter slot in the door or, if they're too big, just left on the doorstep: A wallet that was stolen last year, a coin that was dropped into the sea last week, or a toy that was left on a bus, a time capsule buried in the ground, an unwanted present purposefully forgotten at the train station. The only thing that they have in common that they are never perishables. It's all non-food items.
All items that are being returned must have vanished within the Mossgate Echo Boundary, but they can have vanished long before the person whom they are returned to gained their first echo/got access to the network.
They appear throughout the week, and then abruptly stop the evening before Mother's Day.
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[Nel would not mind being a friendly ear, but adults are funny about not wanting to talk about certain things to kids.]
You should call one. Or maybe visit. It might help you feel a little better.
[Stickers retrieved, she sorts through the handful of them and studies each one carefully to try to spark a memory of using them. Some she readily identifies, others she barely recalls having seen before.]
I think I gave one of these stickers out that day people were signing their names.
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[He is not entirely certain that's what you're on about, Nel.]
You're likely right.
[Still, he doesn't go much further on that conversational avenue.]
So it's not a unified collection, then.]
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[ That is not a word she recognizes, so she cannot support it as her intention. What she can support is Walter finding emotional comfort in someone he can trust.]
Good! You should ask them now about having a talk later.
Not really. They didn’t come from the same sheet or anything either.
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[Awww, Nel. ;;]
I'll make sure to do that, then.
That's odd. Wonder why those were the ones deemed 'lost' and not belonging to someone else?
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Good!
[Studying the stickers more carefully, she considers them. It is curious.]
Maybe the one I gave away was lost or thrown out? I gave some to adults too.
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[Walter's glad this is text, otherwise the wry tone implied in those words would come shining through, and Nel doesn't need to hear that from him.]
Then it'd be second-hand restoration - if someone else lost them, they're returned to the original owner. In this case, that would be you.
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Maybe how long I had the stickers before matters? If I had a sticker for months and an adult took it off to throw out as soon as they got to work, that’d be a very short time.
Had to check whether Walter HAD gotten a sticker, first! |D
[ENGLISH IS WEIRD.]
That's certainly possible. Perhaps there's some way we could test that? Recently-received stickers versus those you've had a long time, if you hand them out at the same time?
[Walter, at least, did not throw his out.]
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[Nel will ask someone in her family to explain the different words further later.]
I can give one of each to my mums and ask them to throw them away at a certain time. [Which will be weird but she has asked for odd favors before, and both of them know about the Numbers.]
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Make sure to write down the timeframes, though!
That's what makes this science. ;)
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[She almost has this.]
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Along with where they throw them out, as well.
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[There have been some... unconventional deliveries, but nothing too extravagant.]
If your mums allow, installing a door-camera for a short time, just to have a timestamp for when it shows up, might catch it.
[Not the stranger, just what he does.]
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[Being a child, she has no idea how much such gadgets cost.]
But if we can’t, I’ll look for them a lot!
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[Though that may not be assuring, and Walter understands that.]
Do what you feel you can, Nel.
End here?
[She takes an extra minute to draw a cute little doodle for him before she heads off to propose the idea to her mothers.]
Sounds good. Thank you for the thread. =)