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[Technology? LOL NOPE. Some friendly kedan at least helped her figure out how to turn the console on and off, but Aisling has never even sent a letter before, let alone used a device to talk to people far away. Still, at least she's managed to turn it on and broadcast. The view shows a window with trees outside, and one of Aisling's ears can be seen. Yeah, someone doesn't know where the actual camera lens is.]

Hello? They said that I may use this...c...con-sole to talk to many people, even if those people are far away. Does that mean that Brendan may hear this? Brendan? Are you there?

This is all very strange, isn't it? Hmm...I had never heard of a turtle of this size until now. Nor did I expect a dreaming world to look like this. But these are very nice trees, aren't they? Very old and wise. Still, I should not linger here very long. My own forest needs me. So, then! Does anyone know the way back to Ireland?

[Someone also doesn't quite understand the situation she's in.]

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So... did your kedan not tell you we're stuck here, or were you just not listening?

[ ...someone's in a mood today. Dying will do that to you. ]

[A FACE APPEARED WHAT IS THIS SNAKE POO. Give her a second while she flails about, trying to deal with the fact that THIS FACE IS TALKING TO HER AND SHE CAN'T FIND THE BODY.]

What are you? A dullahan? Where is your body? [Pawing at the monitory JFDKALJFDKSL WHY CAN'T SHE TOUCH THE FACE. It's like a moving picture what the actual fuck.]

[ ...okay, now Rikki feels bad for getting snappy, because obviously this girl is not grasping a lot of things about the situation.

Sigh. ] No, I'm... I'm just a person. A human. I'm not actually there with you, I'm somewhere else. That's just a picture of me.

[She peeks up at the face, totally unaware that she should be looking at the camera.] A human...? But pictures can't move.

Iiiit's a special kind of picture. That's what these consoles do, they send your voice and image to another console... even if it's far away.

I guess you don't have a lot of technology where you come from?

I have seen a few pictures, and none of them moved... [Poke poke poke.] What is t...tech-no-logi?

Yeah, like I said. Special. It's called a video.

I guess that answers that question. It's... um... Actually, I'm not sure how to explain this. But it's stuff like this, or lights that don't need fire, or... I don't know, ways to move things around without horses? [ ...a part of her can sense Iron Man's horror over this explanation. SHE IS NOT SCIENCE GIRL, OKAY? ] But anyway, it's usually got a lot of metal and glass, and it runs on something called electricity...

Or I don't know, maybe these consoles actually run on magic. I didn't think to ask.

Vid-eeo...

Lights that do not need fire? Do you mean fireflies? Or foxfire? I have heard of carts and boats and other such things. But I do not know what..."glass" or e... [Give her a second.] Elk-triss-ty is. They are very silly words.

...yeah, I guess they are.

But you see the little round circle above the moving picture? That's like an eye that can see you and put your image on my console here. I'm only seeing the top of your head right now because you're kind of... out of frame...

An...eye? [She looks around until she finds it. She gasps a little bit and whispers,] It's staring at me?

[ ...whoops. On reflection, that was a little disturbing, wasn't it? ]

Uh. Yeah. Kinda. But it's not actually alive. It's just part of the console.

Is it dead?

....no. It's just... not... alive. It was never alive.

[ OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS CONVERSATION? IS THIS REAL LIFE? ]

How can it have an eye if it was never alive?

Someone built it? It's not an actual eye, it's just sort of... made to work like one?

How can it have an eye if it is not alive or dead? It is certainly not a potato.

[ Facepalm. Facepalm. Facepalm.

...yeah, that's the only response you're getting just now. Give her a moment. ]

[Poking the eye in the meantime. When the console doesn't hiss or scream she relaxes a bit.]

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