snowwhiteproject | Number 1; voice/action

[A gentle boy's voice comes in suddenly, mid-word.]

--t'll turn on? Yeah, I think that worked... Man, this is pretty cool! Is this heaven or something? It's not quite what I imagined... it's a lot greener, for one thing! And my wings aren't pure white, like I thought people were supposed to get when they died. But I guess I can't really complain too much... I mean, this is better than no afterlife at all, right?

I guess I didn't expect heaven to have weird magic notebook things, either, come to think of it. But then, I've never met someone who could tell me about heaven first-hand! It's not like getting married, after all, most people don't live to tell you about it later. Hahaha...

Gosh, I guess I don't even know if anyone's listening to this. Um, is anyone? ... If you are, hi!

[And then he stops the recording, looking around himself at the forest out here. Gosh, it's so lush... way more lively than the forests he'd been in! And he can see all kinds of birds in the trees, and small animals skittering about...

It was weird, that Heaven would be so much more alive than Earth.

Slowly, he drifts around the forest in his cotton pants, floating with his bony toes sometimes grazing the undergrowth and mulchy soil, absorbing the life around him and... and wondering about his friends, that he felt like he'd just seen a few minutes ago, just before he'd woken up here.

They were probably already arguing, knowing them!]

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[There's someone else wandering the forest this day, too. Dressed in her usual sailor fuku despite the poor weather, Yuriko is also floating a few inches above the ground to combat the undergrowth.

When she spots Emil. she quickly drops to her feet, however, a little shocked at his appearance.]

[Emil turns quickly at the noise, with a soft sound of surprise--]

O-oh, hello, miss!

[-- and the least intimidating greeting ever given by a floating skeleton.]

I'm sorry, did I startled you?

[Yuriko just looks at him with a look of suspicion, not fear.]

What are you?

... That's a very good question!

[Also, one he doesn't really know how to answer, though he does the best he can without mentioning anything that might scare her.]

I'm kind of a magical skeleton. But not an evil one or anything, even though my body is kind of scary!

[Somewhat defiantly, she responds with:] I don't believe in magic, or talking skeletons.

Um...

[He tilts his head at her, then looks down at himself, wiggling his fingers in the space where his organs would be if he still had them, then summoning a little ball of magic in his hand, circles of glowing runes radiating out around his fingers like petals as the ball formed.]

... W-well, your belief doesn't seem to have done much, since they're still things that I am.

[And with that, he releases the ball of magic up towards the sky, watching it drift away for a moment before looking back to her.]

[Yuriko watches the ball of magic float away with curiosity. She exhibits a slight smirk.]

I guess you're not the weirdest thing I've seen here. I can believe in you after all.

Wow, I'm not? [He laughs a little, rubbing the back of his head with one hand.] Gosh, there must be some pretty weird things around here, then!

Um, anyway... I guess I should probably introduce myself, huh? Since I don't wanna be rude or anything! [His expression is always a skeletal grin, of course, but his body language follows that grin, until it gives the impression that he's beaming at her with goodwill.] My name's Emil! What's yours?

[Yuriko's pretty bad at perceiving and showing body language but she attempts a small smile for Emil anyway. She moves a little closer so that they're not standing so far away and introduces herself.]

My name is Yuriko.

I didn't expect to meet anyone else out here.

Well, I didn't expect to be here, so I guess we're on about even ground, huh? Heeheehee!

[He giggles, good-naturedly, and asks,] Can I ask where you're from? I've never seen clothes like yours before...

[Yuriko is still looking kind of blank, not to mention a little dumbfounded at this whole thing still.]

I'm from the Empire of the Rising Sun. But somehow I doubt we're from the same world.

... The same world? Is there more than one?

[Oh man, everything about this place is so interesting!]

There are lots of them, from what I hear. Many of them are the same, but some are a lot different.

[Yuriko guesses this guy is a New Feather by now. She hadn't noticed those highly fashionable cotton pants before.]

[Emil's nearly forgotten about them, at this point, though the way they expose his hollow ribcage probably doesn't make him look less threatening to random passersby...]

Wow... that's really cool! I've never heard of something like that before! [He sounds genuinely excited, bouncing a little in mid-air.] What's it like, where you're from? The Empire of the Rising Sun... It sounds amazing just from the name!

[Emil's exposed ribcage is slightly unnerving, but Yuriko's probably seen more disturbing things. While she was startled she's almost not bothered at all now.]

It's the most technologically advanced nation on Earth, but it's still ruled by tradition that has lasted hundreds of years. There are big cities and smaller villages with ancient architecture.

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