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tushanshu2012-07-31 09:00 pm
shifu_sifu) wrote in tushanshu2012-07-31 09:00 pm
001 [video] console café
[The backdrop? One of the console cafés private rooms, with the door open to show a hall crowded with locals, but this particular room seems empty save a pair of large, rounded ears that are twitching minutely to catch the many sounds going around him. Seconds later, half a head peers into the video and a furry brow furrows.]
This is not anything like what I expected once my time came. There is much and everything is complex and-- No one can see me, can they. [A mutter as one elderly red panda holds onto the edge of the console and tries to look at the camera.
This? Is not working. He abandons that technique and kicks back the chair, performing a perfect flip to land balanced on the crux of his staff, the base of which is resting on the floor. Now centered in the video, he smoothes out his robes and clears his throat.]
I understand this is a realm for those who have completed their journeys. [A pause, a steady breath, and a nod.] I am at peace with this.
[The murmur of crowd in the background surges briefly and an ear flicks in irritation. Shifu decides it is better to finish his message before more people arrive.]
If you can just direct me to Master Oogway, I... [A pause as he glances around, borderline frazzled by all the people here.] -ah, I will confer with him and resume my meditations.
[A marginally graceful nod to the camera, then he descends the staff onto the console, searching for the command to kill the feed.]
There are many, many more people than I expected to have achieved the inner peace necessary to attain this state.
[It's one more perplexed mutter before he finds the command and ends it.]
This is not anything like what I expected once my time came. There is much and everything is complex and-- No one can see me, can they. [A mutter as one elderly red panda holds onto the edge of the console and tries to look at the camera.
This? Is not working. He abandons that technique and kicks back the chair, performing a perfect flip to land balanced on the crux of his staff, the base of which is resting on the floor. Now centered in the video, he smoothes out his robes and clears his throat.]
I understand this is a realm for those who have completed their journeys. [A pause, a steady breath, and a nod.] I am at peace with this.
[The murmur of crowd in the background surges briefly and an ear flicks in irritation. Shifu decides it is better to finish his message before more people arrive.]
If you can just direct me to Master Oogway, I... [A pause as he glances around, borderline frazzled by all the people here.] -ah, I will confer with him and resume my meditations.
[A marginally graceful nod to the camera, then he descends the staff onto the console, searching for the command to kill the feed.]
There are many, many more people than I expected to have achieved the inner peace necessary to attain this state.
[It's one more perplexed mutter before he finds the command and ends it.]
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Greetings, Ah Noar Mal Huu Man. I am Shifu.
But, you have not answered my question.
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No, no, I'm-- I am a normal human. It's... a species. Not a title. Human, you know? My name is Asami.
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I have never heard of such a species. [Disbelief: He has it.] You are not of the Valley of Peace, no, but perhaps you are one of these other-world creatures that the kedan spoke of?
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[A bit of a laugh, there. She's a little flustered about that.]
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[Starting with what he knows.]
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[help???]
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All things come from somewhere. Even the great peach tree comes first from a seed and that seed comes first from another peach. It does not simply appear, fully grown and with no roots.
[Get used to the peach tree references, Asami. It's kind of how masters explain things.
Pssst, he's asking where your roots are grounded.]
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[Since no one has. Abloo.]
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How far from China is this city?
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Yes. That must be why you have never heard of China and I of Republic City. Few travel quite so far and wide when there are many marvels to be had in one's own home.
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No. [Head shake.] That is as impossible as-- [A fat panda being the Dragon Warrior?]
...it is highly unlikely.
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[Seriously clinging to his interpretation, thx.]
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That was all? That cannot be all.
[IMPOSSIBLE.]
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I'm pretty sure that was all.
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[SO. FLABBERGASTED. YOU DON'T EVEN.]