video | un: River | stars & moon
Sep. 3rd, 2019 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[ The video opens to wispy brown hair, blue eyes, eyebrows taking up the entirety of the screen.
Upside-down, in fact.
It corrects itself in a moment but it is impossible to tell if that's because the broadcaster has turned the device or flipped herself, instead.
Suddenly, her open palm takes up the screen. ]
Hi.
[ She puts her hand down, but it's still just eyes, eyebrows, hair, and the bridge of her nose in the shot. ]
We arrived here changed, in flux. Still changing? The parameters are unclear. It has only been a number of days. She's good with numbers, bad with calendars, occasionally interested in counting. Does it matter?
Have you been changed? A blessing, a curse? Is something missing? Growing a seedling where it once towered over the land? This is how it is for her.
No one speaks of the history of this place. The fissure between Emperor and Priestess. How we came to be here. Magic is vague. Technology is the same. A non-answer.
Why?
Upside-down, in fact.
It corrects itself in a moment but it is impossible to tell if that's because the broadcaster has turned the device or flipped herself, instead.
Suddenly, her open palm takes up the screen. ]
Hi.
[ She puts her hand down, but it's still just eyes, eyebrows, hair, and the bridge of her nose in the shot. ]
We arrived here changed, in flux. Still changing? The parameters are unclear. It has only been a number of days. She's good with numbers, bad with calendars, occasionally interested in counting. Does it matter?
Have you been changed? A blessing, a curse? Is something missing? Growing a seedling where it once towered over the land? This is how it is for her.
No one speaks of the history of this place. The fissure between Emperor and Priestess. How we came to be here. Magic is vague. Technology is the same. A non-answer.
Why?