Voice/Action for House 48 - 003

[moezama]

[Kazuma was just reading a book in his room, when he heard a loud wailing from the other side of his door. It certainly gave him quite a fright and it sounded like...Tao? His journal picked up their conversation as he went to investigate]

Tao? What's wrong?

Boo-meow...Litchi is...is g-go...Tao can't say it!!

What?

[Tao's words were incoherent, covered in her constant sobbing that Kazuma couldn't get anything else out of her. So..rather than keep pressing her, he'll go to Litchi's room to investigate himself. The journal will just pick up Tao's wailing and wheezing for a while until Kazuma comes back.]

Tao...Tao, it's okay. I'll tell everyone. You just...[Just what? What could he even say to make this better? ] Take it easy, all right...? [Kazuma went to his bed and sat down, his journal now in hand. He stared blankly at the page, Tao still crying in the background.]

To those who knew her, Miss Litchi Faye-Ling has been sent home. [She's gone] She left behind...well cooked a few things for people before she left...I think. [Why does it matter to me?] A lot of things actually...we can't possibly eat all of this, so I'm positive this was meant to be shared with those she knew. [We were from different times, we would have never met anyway] So please feel free to come by House 48 to pick some food up. I'm...sure she'd be happy to know her cooking was appreciated here.

[So why does it hurt here?]

Comments

[Action] and this is being broadcasted all over the journals welp

[catus_carnival]

[And here lies Tao, wheezing and crying where she was. Probably on Litchi's former bed.]

Me-ow...

[Action] Tis a sad day.

[moezama]

[Kazuma goes to find Tao a few minutes after he had made his announcement over the journal. When he does he...stays quiet. He doesn't know what to say in this situation. First Thirteen and now Litchi...He barely knew everyone in this house that he felt out of place to say something...and yet he became rather attached with Litchi, as much as everyone else who lived here. ]

...Tao? [Good start, but now what...?]

[Action] indeedy

[catus_carnival]

[Luckily, Tao can make enough noise for the both of them, as she sniffs a bit before going...]

...Green Guy?

[Action]

[moezama]

[All the loud noises. Thankfully, Kazuma can tolerate it better than another Green Guy. He comes over and sits down on the bed beside her.]

I'm...sorry this had to happen. You were really close to her, weren't you?

[deathsdoctor]

[There is the sound of something actually dropping.

And then silence. As the person on the other end digests the news.

What it means.

Where things have to go from here.

What will need to be done in the next few days.


But not this second. Law will indulge in the comfort of shock for a few more moments.]

Thank you for letting us know.

[And the village's assortment of doctors thins a little more...]

[moezama]

You're welcome...

[He doesn't recognize the voice, so he'll leave it that]

[deathsdoctor]

[Law doesn't recognize the voice either - and so, yes, it'll be left at that. No use dragging on something which does not need to be dragged on. Better to end it there and let the household get on with the grieving -it's better and less painful and awkward for everyone.

...

He does not have such a luxury, anyway. Too much to do. Too many people to contact and co-ordinate a temporary arrangement for the Town Clinic until a new head doctor can be chosen.

Time to get on that.]

[Voice]

[shadedsunlight]

...Thank you for letting us know.

[Voice]

[moezama]

[Ah, another voice he doesn't recognize, so all he simply says is-]

You're welcome.

[Voice]

[daisy023]

What.

[The word sounds as if she had been threatened. The Major, Michael, and Kirimi had left just a few weeks apart, and now Litchi!?

She wants to direct her anger and sadness in combat. Something to redirect everything she felt. She is in a mode to fight and kill an enemy that is not here. To which she cannot even reach.

It takes almost a minute and all of her willpower to tame those feelings.]

...

Understood. [Her words are cold. A Spartan's way of coping.] I don't know if I'll come.

[Voice]

[moezama]

I'm...I'm sorry we couldn't do more. [The way Daisy spoke was enough for Kazuma to think he had done something wrong.]

It's...all right if you can't.

[Voice]

[daisy023]

--It's not your fault.

[A somewhat raised tone. Not angry, but regardless of her stoic facade of a Spartan, she has yet to accept this.]

I used to be friends with the Major and Litchi. But I never got a chance to meet you guys.

[Litchi and the Major had always allowed her to be welcome in their household. With them gone, she does not know if the remnants of the house will accept her as easily.]

[moezama]

Ah, I see. Well I'm...the newest arrival to stay in this house, so you...probably wouldn't know me anyway. [Like how he honestly doesn't know all of Litchi's or David's friends]

My name is Kazuma though.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

[A pained sob breaks the silence of the journal feed for a moment.

Litchi. Litchi. One of his closest friends... someone he's known for almost the entire year he was at Luceti.

So gentle. So intelligent. So kind...

... And he never got the chance to learn more about her. He never got the chance to... understand who she was.

Gods, he regrets not doing more when he had the chance. He regrets...]

I... I... I u-understand...

[The words are a harsh, pained effort, and Robert has to pause to breathe again, before he continues. He doesn't even have Don right now, to dull the pain by sobbing into his plastron.

He just wrings his fingers against his chest and stares into the suddenly-foreboding dark shadows of his room.]

... Th-thank you for... i-informing us.

[... Who else is next?]

[moezama]

[Voice]

[...Kazuma can hear Robert having a difficult time taking in the news on his end. For a while he's quiet himself, thinking. He's only been with her for a short time, he can only imagine how others who knew her longer must be feeling.]

I'm sorry. There was...nothing we could have done.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

[Robert doesn't blame Kazuma, not in the least. It's nobody's fault. It might not even be the Malnosso's fault, if what they say has any truth at all.

Litchi wouldn't have blamed them.

... But he hates this. He hates how quickly such a close, important friend was wrested from him. Gone, possibly forever. He... he doesn't even know what to do. And what if she returns, but... doesn't remember anymore...?]

I... I kn-know. Please do not... b-blame yourselves.

I just... [Small, sad:] She... she w-was a... a close friend, and I... [... He can't finish that, because his voice breaks.]

[moezama]

[...]

She was...a good friend to all of us. [And maybe she meant a little more than that to Kazuma...a mother-like figure]

I know we've only just met but...if there's anything--or...well, I guess nothing can make this any better...but you're welcome to come by if you want someone to have a conversation with.

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

[You're still here, eh.]

...I'm sorry to hear that. [She'd liked Litchi.]

[moezama]

[What--oh it's...that woman from before.]

Ah, Miss Nami...? [Yea, that sounds right.] ...It's probably for the best. [Kazuma of course didn't seem to think so, considering how beaten he sounded when he said that. But home is better than here right...?]

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

[...you know, in Litchi's case she already knows it's not for the best. But Nami just smiles faintly.]

Yeah. And she might be back some day.

...are you staying with Tao?

[moezama]

Well...yes. It's just her and Miss Tsubaki now...[...] It was Miss Litchi who gave me a place stay in the first place. It's strange to be here without her now...

[bullet-dance.livejournal.com]

[To those who knew her, Miss Litchi Faye-Ling has been sent home--

She's not even going to finish listening to the message.]

What? [Everything comes full-stop.] She-- Miss Litchi... she's gone!?

[No. She doesn't want to believe this. She's known Miss Litchi almost as long as she's been here. They've become such good friends, and-- she just can't be--]

[moezama]

[Oh...hi Noel.]

All of her things are gone...nothing to show that she was here. [Except all the food she made before disappearing.]

[bullet-dance.livejournal.com]

1/2

[Okay, no, Noel. Calm down. You need to calm down. The last thing you want is to scare the messenger.

...]

I see...

[But Miss Litchi was...

"If we were given a chance... I know I would prefer to stay here."

"I... I'm sorry, it's just that... I never meant to hurt everyone like this."

She was--

"This place... really has become a home, hasn't it...?"

It wasn't as though Noel could at least smile and convince herself that at least her friend was safe. She couldn't tell herself this was for the best.

Litchi found a new home here. Litchi didn't want to go back to the way things were. She had friends. A family, even. So much has changed for her! For the better!

And now all that's been taken away.]

[bullet-dance.livejournal.com]

[No.

This is too much.

This really was something else.]

I... s-sorry--

[Annnd she decides to close the journal on Kazuma to go cry in her room 8|.]