foolishwren | 91. [Video/Action for Cianwood City]

Okay-- OKAY, OKAY, hang on, I got it!

All right, get back.

_{[The sound of big reptilian feet plodding backwards through wet sand can be heard as the camera shows a wobbly view of.... Sunny the Togekiss standing on an appropriately sunny Cianwood beach. The water's lapping at the shore, the sky is bright blue, it's totally beautiful.]

[A PERFECT day to test out the new, hard-earned skill gotten from beating Chuck in a furious fist-fight (and some obligatory after-battle arm-wrestling): Fly.]

[Perched precariously on the back of the big white marshmallow-bird is Heather, kneeling and holding onto the thick white plumage with both hands. She's got a determined expression.]}

Okay. Let's give it a try. I-- no, Dad, it's gonna be FINE, that's why I'm practicing on the BEACH, remember? Sand is soft!

OKAY.

Ready, girl?

Let's-- oh shit aw HELL--

_{[With some gentle but powerful WHOMPS, the Togekiss had begun to serenely flap its pillowy wings and take off. ... Without Heather, because Heather has no idea how the hell to ride a flying thing and was promptly jostled off by the wing motion.]

[Touching down again, Sunny trills and lovingly sits upon the face-down Heather like any caring bird mother might with a stupid bird baby that crash-landed after trying to fly.]}

... Okay.

This could take a little practice.

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Well, besides being able to get places quick when I need to, I was... gonna pick somebody up.

A girl named Angela.

She's... like us.

She's been to Silent Hill.

_{[And of course by 'been to Silent Hill' she means the other side of Silent Hill.]}

[If she had caught Angela's name, this would have explained many things. For now, though, Lisa just stares, clearly surprised.]

There are more of us? [She wilts a bit.] ...I thought it would all be over, once Harry fixed it.

_{[Heather nods. LOTS more... so many more than she ever would have guessed, although in hindsight it all made sense. Even if a figurative band-aid had been put down when the world had been restored to normal on that night when Harry Mason killed God, the deepest damage done couldn't be repaired.]}

I... I wish I could say that's how it was.

... But that place is...

_{[Not the same anymore. ... It'll never be the same, not completely. Probably not even to people who didn't KNOW about the Otherworld... although then again, hadn't it always had one foot in the darkness?]}

Anyway... Angela's one of us.

I asked her if she wanted to come with us, n'she said yes. Me, Dad, and Henry. Henry's been there too.

_{[She pauses slightly.]}

... Actually, I... I was gonna ask you the same thing if it ever came up...

[Yeahhh, Silent Hill had been a pretty shady place even before it was basically Hell.]

...I see.

[And then Lisa is staring quite blankly over at the other blonde. It takes her a moment to remember how to speak.]

You...want me to travel with you?

_{[Baaaaaaaad mojo there, seriously.]

[When the offer was met with a blank stare, Heather first shrugged, sucking her lips inward.]}

Well... yeah.

I mean...

_{[Another pause, and then a sigh.]}

A lot of people have disappeared lately.

And... well, I figured people like us... we should stick together, you know?

[Poor Heather. Guilt settles into Lisa's gut because...as uncomfortable as the thought of being in the same place as the girl still makes her, she does recognize that Heather is more on the...friend side of the scale. Plus, she could see Harry again.

Maybe it's wouldn't be so bad...]

...Okay. Yes, I'll go with you.

_{[Poor Lisa. If Heather'd had any idea how uncomfortable the poor nurse was (and really, she should have known. It didn't take a genius to put two and two together, but Heather's memories were Alessa's memories and she'd seen Lisa as her friend...), she never would have asked.]

[BUT...]

[Her mouth stretches into a crooked, excited grin.]}

Really?

That's-- okay! Wow! Great!

I bet Dad'll be real happy to see you in person! And-- and you'll get to meet the rest of us, too!

_{[Like the perpetually-awkward photographer that sleeps on the floor and hides in his sleeping bag every time the trauma of having to talk to people gets to him too much.]}

[asdfjlas, all the awkward at that excitement. She does manage to smile back, though.]

Yes, I will certainly be looking forward to that... And I would like to hear about everything that happened, of course, after I...left.

[Because that was the simple way to put it.]

_{[Heather is admittedly a little overeager. Between all the disappearances, and just her general longing to have this ... this family unit where everyone watches each other's back and looks out for one another, the urge to just gather everyone up is a big factor in why she's trying to gather people up. They're birds of a feather! They've all been in the same boat! They should stick together! ... Never mind that putting a whole bunch of traumatized individuals with all sorts of hangups together almost never runs as smoothly as you think it should. It's still a good idea! Right?]}

After you-- oh. Yeah.

It's...

_{[She pauses for a moment... but... it's Lisa. She was there when it all started. Didn't she deserve to hear the whole story? Heather thinks she does.]}

We'll tell you everything when we get you.

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