[ Action, Voice ] "You! What planet is this?"

[talentsgirl]

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[So, after a month or so of study in shifts and things that mess with brains, Molly's ready to try an experiment. She attempts to say each of these in their regular languages: Spanish, Latin, French, and Chinese. All she gets for her efforts are a few words squeaking through Luceti's translation and a headache.]

I'm going to habla en Spanish.

Next to try nonnullus Latin.

I don't know many words in French but here it goes: belle, thanks, Camembert.

...Kung Pao Chicken.

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[She waits a bit for the headache to fade and then makes a general post.]

Two months in this place, and I feel like I'm still just getting my feet wet. I know everyone's getting adjusted with this whole new 'cycle,' but I wonder if a few people wouldn't mind answering a question: What language am I speaking right now?

[And in a bit, Molly will blow off her normal time at the library to enjoy the warm day and glorious weather in a pair of stonewashed cut-off shorts that are just a bit too short and a plain white men's T-shirt. She's roaming in and out of town, until eventually she finds a good hill to meditate on. Two months? Caution's getting thin. It's time to try and contact one of these filial spirits and just... start talking.]

Comments

[ voice ]

[talentsgirl]

Seems like a good policy. About a half hour, then?

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

Mmhm. I'm not going anywhere.

[ not until the sun sets, at least. ]

[talentsgirl]

You were wanting to give it as a gift, right? A gift's more valuable if you have to work for it, anyway.

[all7seas]

[She was right; he will have to work for that ruby pendant, just as he worked for the engagement ring.

It meant more time away from her.]

Agreed.

[ voice ]

[talentsgirl]

I'll meet you there, then. Ice cream is better with company.

[Ice cream alone is always too much like binging, anyway.]

[herotypical]

[ and so the slayer engages in what any self-respecting person would do under the news of new company approaching. she did a last-minute tidy. ]

[talentsgirl]

[...so then.]

Any other luck?

[all7seas]

Lots! I've lots of luck!

[Apart from the fact that he just returned from over two weeks of beatings at the hands of rogue Malnosso scientists and everything hurts.]

Didn't I mention before that I am luck incarnate?

[talentsgirl]

Might have slipped your mind mid-swindle.

[talentsgirl]

And so, about a half hour later, Molly Carpenter knocked on the door of House Seven. At least, she thought it was House Seven. It would have been more helpful if the houses were actually numbered.

[herotypical]

And a perky blonde -- perkier than she'd been in weeks, although Molly wasn't to know that -- answered the door, leaning casually on the frame. Although the hair surprises her (as does the tattoo), these things are nothing in the face of...all that height.

Buffy looked up. She looked way up.

"...H-hi. Molly?"

[all7seas]

And what are you known for, hmm?

voice;

[alloys]

Then you had better start one up, hadn't you? Don't worry. I'm sure you can get a hand. The folks out here are willing to take on pretty much anything.

[talentsgirl]

[...well, that was an unexpected twist on the conversation.]

I'm not really known for anything.

[That whole magic bit is fairly strictly on the hush-hush back where she's from. And anyway, Harry's the star of the story. She's just the apprentice. And. Convicted warlock. Whatever.]

I'm known by something. I'm Molly. And what about you, Captain?

voice;

[talentsgirl]

[Geeze, bossy.]

As fun as that sounds, I'm going to have to pass.

[voice]

[godbent]

It's more pronounced in person and easy to miss, but yeah. [...Whiiiich may or may not be the fact that she believes she should hear and echo making it so. Gods, what are you gonna do? in which I use Haruhi's powers to bullshit my Luceti head canon]

[talentsgirl]

Molly blinked down at the other girl and then shrugged off the height disparity. And. Huh. There was more of a threshold around this house than she'd sensed in any of the apartment buildings. She'd need to get permission to enter if she didn't want to risk having her powers temporarily stripped.

"Got it in one. You're Buffy?"

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

Huh. That's interesting.

[She'll have to listen for it now.]

And you're speaking Japanese right now?

[ voice ]

[kyknus]

I usually hear things in Russian. [ or Greek, or Japanese. Depends what he's using at the time but it seems to default to Russian. ]

[ voice ]

[talentsgirl]

[...now that's interesting.]

Are you from Russia?

[ voice ]

[kyknus]

Yes. Depending on the language I'm speaking though I hear it differently. [ the weirdness of being multilingual in luceti. ]

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

Sounds like English to me. Fiddling with the translations?

[He's done the same--it's hard to properly tease people with gratuitous phrases in foreign languages with the universal translation convention.]

[ voice ]

[talentsgirl]

...that's very interesting. And it automatically shifts?

voice;

[alloys]

Really? That's a shame. Because I'm sure it'd be more beneficial to the community at large than Linguistics 101.

[ voice ]

[kyknus]

[ he has to think about that. He doesn't exactly go out of his way to talk to people that often. Guess the best way to know for sure is to try. ]

I'm speaking Greek now, so I'll let you know what I hear next.