MAILBOX; inbox

[shoubai]

WELCOME

House 1411

"Hello? Hello?? I'm sorry, there's nobody home right now. [ obnoxious peal of laughter: go ]

Ahh, that's right! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you. Right? That's how it goes? Aha, no telemarketers, please!

If you run up my bill, I'll have to ask you to pay the extra costs.

[ BEEP ]

Comments

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

a modern man these days needs proof!!
wheres your proofbeyond a pretty picture??

[ even as he's sending this, he's tearing through the house to the porch ]

Re: T E X T

[whizbangs]

Gimme five

ACTION

[whizbangs]

[and in five...

a shape in the distance that could be a bird, could be anything, speeds closer and closer into view, and--

carol puts on the brakes when she reaches his front lawn, suspended a couple of feet above it. her hair is a bird's nest from the wind, and she's flushed, grinning, exhilarated.

she laughs, as she touches down. she just laughs.]

See!

Re: ACTION

[shoubai]

[ it's like something out of a movie, a comic, a dream. the image she cuts could be from any motivational poster, from any great superhero genre advertising, windswept and joyous and so fearless it could take a man's breath away.

it certainly takes his. ]

Ah, hello Carol-san. You're flying.

Re: ACTION

[shoubai]

[ he stares for a second longer, expression shifting from one of surprise to disbelief, and even that sliding on down to pure, unabashed amazement. ]

You're flying.

[ something catches alight in his chest.

he's looking a little choked up ]

Re: ACTION

[whizbangs]

[his face. it hits her all at once that he's the first person she's shown this to since it happened, and seeing his face, that open wonder... she drinks in the sight. it makes it all, somehow, indisputably real.

carol feels light, so light, like a strong wind could buffet her away back into the sky at any second. maybe she could even float away without it.

and float she does, breaking away from the ground again to hang there a second before landing, right in front of him now.]

I'm flying!

[another laugh escapes her, so full of absolute delight that it surprises her into clapping both hands over her mouth, achingly wide smile still visible behind them.]

I can fly!