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[Ed's thinking again, but this time she's got a big pad of paper and lots of crayons. Don't ask where she got them. As she thinks, she's sort of mumbling to herself and doodling large colorful shapes.

The mumbling and the doodles don't look like they have anything to do with each other, but knowing Ed, they probably do.]

Lots of little threads all connect together in one big knot, but you can't get to the center without a pair of scissors or a lot of time and patience.

Once upon a time there was a little boy so lost and scared he shut himself away from everything and died.

The queen will sacrifice herself for the king but why? The rooks and pawns have no power and no choice but the queen holds all the power but when she dies the game continues.

Fire destroyed the witch, but what did it do to Gretel?

Worms and knives and walls of all shapes and sizes protecting secrets and lies and...

...names.

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[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Starts writing different numbers now, binary representations. Writing in all directions. Small, compacted strings of binary branching out, looping around, thickening and thinning as if building on itself... It looks almost like a picture of something... it's hard to tell though some sort of weird-looking thing with big wings...]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Stops to watch. Now there's a new question. Will there be an answer?]

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Moves on to something else. This one is slightly smaller and seems more humanoid, but has things sticking out of its back.]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Waaaaatches, but absent-mindedly doodles a person with a sword.]

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Starts drawing a third person who looks extremely humanoid... much smaller, with no distinguishing features whatsoever.]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Very interested, but doesn't say anything. Just watches.]

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Draws another person, but instead of binary starts using very small representations of the earlier drawn chemical formula.]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Still just watches. Doesn't want to interrupt. Draws two people with a wall between them.]

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[She starts drawing something in binary that quickly turns incredibly complex, like a snowflake, but bigger... surrounding the three figures she drew in binary, leaving the chemical person out.]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Finally can't contain the question. In reference to the figures, she asks:]

Who are they?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Now it's her turn.] Two hear the voice. One wishes for it but falls far from the mark. Only through force of will is one related to the others.

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Frowns a little, but realizes she was being just as enigmatic before. So. Can't complain. Tries a different tactic.]

...Is one of them Kazumi?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Looks up from the drawing critically. Sizes up Ed for a moment, though she looks a bit distasteful at a certain someone's name.] Not bad, for a human...

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Nods. Maybe some answers...?]

Why do you hate him?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[The crayon she's holding snaps as her grip tightens on it. Her eyes narrow.] The first one was just a sentimental fool who deserved what he got. He... [her lip curls] is a fool without sentiment who deserves an end far, far worse.

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Oh hay now we're getting somewhere. She speaks quietly, because lol she knows angry Tav is nooooot very nice to be around.]

...what did he do?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

Willfully enslaved my family to humans, for one... then turned it around and attempted to use it for his own purposes! We were all quite happy to be dead and free! [Throws the crayon remains away in anger.]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[Frowns. Huh.]

...what... purposes?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

[Rolls her eyes mightily, though not at Ed.] Sometimes humans are just asking for it. You don't meddle in powers you will never understand, but yet he persists..!

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[okay okay we're getting somewhere, but Ed wants specifics. How to get them without pressing too hard...]

What was he trying to do?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

I don't even know why he's apparently so fascinated with me! I wasn't even involved during that whole thing! Her brother... [And she goes from lip-curling to snarling.]

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

Who?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

My host's insipid brother... oh, he tried to be useful but he failed! If he hadn't been so useless, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out this way and we'd be dead again!

[timeforjam.livejournal.com]

[...tries again. It's hard to get what you want from a ranter.]

What happened?

[stained-wing.livejournal.com]

Who cares, he's probably dead anyway. He deserved it. Why he isn't dead is beyond me. Where did he even come from? Should have burned to death in the fire, in my opinion.