The 2nd Sundrop [Video]

[tangledintower]

[The video starts with a thumb. Rather, it's Rapunzel, poking at the camera as she tries to get this silly little magic box to work. She's all wrapped up in her long hair, and Pascal is sitting on her shoulder, looking at the device with confusion.]

Did I get it on...? Oooh, I think it's on now!

Hello!!

[She grins and waves at the camera. She's starting to like it here, despite not really having a place to stay yet. She's been in a tree.]

I'm Rapunzel, and this is Pascal, and we have a few questions for people! Because, see, this place is...it's nothing like I've ever read about, or thought about, or dreamed about...light inside glass flowerbulbs! Magic little boxes that can talk with people for you!

This place...is...amazing!!

But...I guess it's also a prison. You really can't leave...? I don't...but it's so big!

Oh well. At least it's a nice, big prison.

So! Where do people live in a prison if there aren't cages or cells for people?


And...is there a Flynn Rider around here somewhere? If he's here, people would know him by that instead of Eugene Fitzherbert...

Comments

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

[...honestly, the weirdest thing for Chris is that she's a fairytale princess with an American accent.] Right. An' I reckon there aren't too many books on geography around the house, yeah? Um, tower.

Must be. ...you ever lose a brush in it?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Nope...I only have 3 books, and none of them have any maps in them.

Only once or twice when I was little, hehe!

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Didn't think they would do. Oh, and I'm Chris, by the way. Always forget t' say, on these things.

Really? Thought it'd be more likely now, there bein' so much of it. Must take bl--bloomin' ages, anyway.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

It's nice to meet you, Chris. I'm Rapunzel.

...you know, maybe it would be sort of nice to get a map. I've never had one before, thank you for giving me that idea!! Do you know where you get maps here...or how to read them?

At least an hour, yes...I have 'hair time' marked off for my daily schedule.

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you said, ta. Nice meetin' you too.

Well, there's a map somewhere on the thingy you're usin' now. Or I....could try sendin' it you. An' maps are basically just like lookin' at a place from really high up. So building's look like squares and roads look like lines.

An HOUR. [Girls. 8|]

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Oh...oh, yeah, I did!

Really? This box has a map in it too? Wow!

...well, it is very long...I have to split it up into sections to brush it!

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

It does somewhere. Under "map", prob'ly. I'd be specific but everyone's box-thing's sort of different and I only just understand me own.

That ain't the bit I'm surprised about. D'you 'ave anyone to help you brush it, even?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I'll look for that button, then. These boxes are confusing.

Well...no, I guess not. Mother only brushes it at night, and only for a few minutes because of our ritual. So it's not really brushing, I guess.

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Y'don't 'ave to tell me. I've been 'ere a year an' I still don't understand it.

Right... [Mother...Chris is going to stay riiight away from the whole mythology whatever.] Brushin' ritual. Have t' be a ritual, I s'pose. If you've never cut it.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

A whole year? That's a long time...don't you miss your home?

[Smart move, Chris. She'd be quite freaked out if somebody told her Mother was an evil witch.]

Hehe, yes, I guess so! I like you, you're funny.

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Yeah...well, I did get to go 'ome twice. But I was brought back 'ere both times.

Cheers, luv. You're nice too -- very cheerful.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

You got to go home? How did you do that?

Well, there's a lot to be cheerful about! New place, new things to do, lots of nice new people...

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

I didn't have anythin' t' do with it. It just sort of happened.

S'a nice way of lookin' at it.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Oh. I guess people were right when they said you couldn't leave...

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Well, y'do but...yeah, y'can't. Sorry.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

...There's something I don't understand, though. It was summer back where I was from...but it's winter here. How can that happen?

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Oh, um....it's cos it's a different world, I think. So in your world, it's summer. But cos this is a whole different world, it's winter here, right?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Oh...I guess that makes sense...

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

I think that's how it works, anyway. But it's also sort of like....... Right, so, when you go back, folk usually end up right where they were taken from when they left. So by the time it gets to summer here, it'll still be summer where you came from if you haven't been 'ome yet.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Oh. I...huh, that's odd. I guess it's convenient for people...

...it was my birthday back home. But since I came here instead of going through the day, what does that mean?

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

It means it'll still be your birthday when you go back...though I reckon you prob'ly missed out on celebratin' it here... I dunno, s'pose you could 'ave a cake or sommat now if you wanted, or you could wait until your birthday 'appens here, in summer.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not my birthday here, so I won't celebrate it here! It's supposed to come once a year for a reason.

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I s'pose that makes sense. ...only how old does it mean you're turnin'? Is it th' same birthday or the one after?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess when I go home, it'll still be my 18th birthday...so if it happens here, will I be turning 19? It's very confusing.

[justcautious.livejournal.com]

I....yeah, I reckon y'might as well treat 'em like proper birthdays. Prob'ly adds up in th' end anyway.