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[walkersystem]

Action:

[No no no no no no. No. That's not her mom. That's not her mom, and this isn't the airport, and it's another nightmare, it has to be. What else could it be? It's a dream and it's not her dream and that means she's trapped.]

[Anybody in New Bark will likely catch the sight of a little girl slowly backing away from the house she'd woken up in with wide eyes before breaking into a run and coming to a stop next to some trees to dig through her backpack. Except it's not her own backpack. And the things inside aren't what she wants or needs them to be.]

[Which is a big stressor to a kid who has no idea what to do.]


Audio, later:

Hello? Mr- Parkman? I didn't do anything, I promise.

[Spoken with the urgency of children who want to prove themselves innocent everywhere.]

Please let me out.

Comments

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

_{[She pauses for a moment, cause that ... does sound sort of like science, but what is alchemy}??]

[Not that she gets an opportunity to comment back on that - now she's busy pondering that strange word he just used about her. And himself.]

... I don't know ... I don't think we have a name for it.

But I don't think I can do what you can do.

I can find people. Anywhere in the world. _{[Dropping her eyes, it's very clear this troubles her:]} But it doesn't work right now.

[Audio]

[garbagechild]

Every Homunculus can do something different. One of us can change to look like anybody! And another one can turn into water!

_{[He sounds excited. Maybe she's one of them and she doesn't know it! Heck, he didn't know it until Envy showed up and gave him drugs explained it to him.]}

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

_{[... that does sound like what she's seen! And the recognition of that, even though he's still said some stuff she doesn't get, makes her excited enough to pitch in.]}

I know someone who can read minds!

[Audio]

[garbagechild]

_{[They can be excited together!]}

I know someone who can eat ANYTHING, even metal and bricks!

He's not too smart, though.

_{[That's putting it kindly, really. Poor Gluttony.]}

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

_{[She laughs,]} that's so weird!

_{[LIKE what is that ability even good for.]}

How many people do you know that can do things?

[Audio]

[garbagechild]

_{[YOU'D BE SURPRISED. For one thing, Gluttony is fantastic at getting rid of evidence.]}

Um, there's five others.

There used to be six but one was a traitor so he died.

So now there's just five.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

_{[... way to sound casual about someone's death, there. it makes Molly halt a little because she's not sure how to respond to that.]}

... did someone kill him?

[Audio]

[garbagechild]

_{[By human standards, Wrath is EXTREMELY MORBID.]}

Yes.

_{[Then he shrugs.]}

I didn't see it.

I never met him.

The others just told me about him.

He deserved it, though. He was bad.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

You mean he was a bad guy?

_{[Like, please don't be casual about killing someone who was just bad at his job or something, okay]}

[Audio]

[garbagechild]

Well, of course he was.

_{[Wrath says this as though baffled that this would even be in question.]}

He was a traitor.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

Yeah, but ...

before that.

[Audio]

[garbagechild]

Oh.

I don't know.

Like I said, I never met him.

<sub>[He doesn't sound terribly concerned about this. Despite the fact that his former allies' opinions have seemingly turned on their heads, he still is apparently putting his faith in what they USED to say to him.]

[And Greed had been held up as a very convenient example to the new kid as what happens to naughty Homunculi who don't do what they're told.]</sub>

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

... okay.

_{[Sorry Wrath she has absolutely no idea what to say to this, honestly. She's a little thrown. You're like EIGHT and you're just ... what ...]}