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[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Sam! Guv!

[have an Annie mid-run screeching to an almost halt, looking around herself, confused.]

Wha -

[she stops, looking back from where she came from again]

That was just a shop a minute ago, wasn't it?

[still looking around herself, eyes looking up, then down in confusion]

Doesn't seem to be much of a shop at the moment. Doesn't seem to be much of anything, really.

[turning around herself in a small circle and finally taking a deep breath]

Now just to work out what this is all about. Suppose I coulda slipped and fell back there. Hit my head and now I'm seeing stars [her eyes shift a little, still taking in her surroundings] everywhere. Or maybe I'm still in bed and I never even woke up yet this morning. Drugs maybe? They did bring in those hippies the other night. Really oughta try to keep a better eye on that lot.

Whatever it is, is enough to make you think you lost your mind.

[laughs, rolling her eyes]

And I'm talking to meself now, too. That solves it.

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[usagipino]

[Have a Pino in a pink bunny suit.] Hippies! Hippies! [She's learned a new word.] What's a hippies?

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[aww, look at the little girl. confusion about surroundings goes away for a moment, because bouncing little girl in bunny suit] Hello, love. You lost your mum?

[usagipino]

[She tilts her head.] Mum?

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Mum. Like a mum and a dad.

[usagipino]

[She shakes her head briskly.] Pino doesn't have those.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

And you're Pino, love?

[gently]

No mum or dad? Do you got someone to take care of you?

[usagipino]

Pino is Pino!

There's Vince! And Hoody and Timothy and Quinn!

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[grins] So there's a whole bunch of you, then. And you're all taken care of?

[usagipino]

[Also grins, mimicking Annie's expression exactly.] Mm!

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[it's sort of like a mirror, except with a different face and all. she still smiles, a little amused] I'm Annie.

[usagipino]

Hi, Annie!

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

'lo, Pino. So, your mates, do they come around here often with you?

[usagipino]

Vince is sick and Hoody didn't believe me. Timothy did! Pino can't bring Timothy...

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Sick? What's wrong with him?

[usagipino]

He went outside! Hoody says the outside is bad for people.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Where are you that's it's bad for you?

[usagipino]

[She has to think about it.] We were in Romdeau, before. In the dome! The shiny dome.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

And you can't go outside ever?

[usagipino]

[Seriously,] Pino had to leave.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[concerned] Where're you now?

[usagipino]

Outside! With Vince and everyone.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

You're taken care of, you got food and warmth and those sorts of things?

[usagipino]

Pino doesn't need those. But the others have them, yes.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

What do you mean you don't need those? Of course you do, love.

[usagipino]

[Cheerfully,] Pino doesn't eat!