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[contempsi]

Okay, this is... kind of a dumb question, but—

[Hope leans back a little and sighs, adjusting the sling around his left arm with a slight wince. He's somewhat arched awkwardly over the journal's view, the book itself spread across his lap since he currently only has one hand to work the thing.]

I just moved into a new house, and I'm sick of this colour. [He shifts his upper body to the side, attempting to prop up the journal to show what he means. What the camera catches instead is a blurred view of the plain walls zipping past before it slips from his hand and falls to the floor with a thump.

Heaving an exasperated sigh, the boy stoops to pick the thing up, dropping it onto the bed next to him with a bit of a scowl.]

... forget it. But really, I'm going to paint the walls in my room this time, and I don't care if I get in trouble. So... does anyone know what would be a good colour, because... um... my favourite colours wouldn't look very good. [Day-Glo orange walls? No.]

[A pause.]

Can we... can we even get paint here?

--

[Very shortly thereafter, because he's stir-crazy after spending several days recovering from the battle, he'll be found either en route to or at the the plaza—which is essentially right next to his new home (House #41) anyway—journal tucked beneath his good arm.]

Comments

[sherpahat.livejournal.com]

But okay! Sherpas! They're a mountain people from Tibet who know their way around mountains and know how to go in ways more than anyone else. They can even show people how to go up Everest!

[contempsi.livejournal.com]

[Hope scratches his head.] Tibet...? Ever-est? I've never even heard of these places before. Is it like the Waterscape?

[sherpahat.livejournal.com]

I dunno! Only if the Waterscape's frozen! Both of them are really high mountainous regions where you climb up cliffs covered in snow and brave terrible conditions and you can yodel too! And these sheraps, dude, they can get an-nee-where in theses mountains. Even, like I said, Everest. It's also know as uh... hold on, I know this. [Pause, and he tugs a bit on his hat, thinking. They call it... oh, right!] Jo-mo-lung-ma. Jomolungma. It's like... nine kilometers tall! That's like! 2 Dilometers almost! Over 29,000 feet!

[contempsi.livejournal.com]

No... it's not.

[His eyes grow a little wide at all the information being thrown at him. Absolutely none of the places named are ones he recognizes, of course, but that's to be expected. Hope hasn't met a single other person from Cocoon here besides Lightning, and he doesn't expect that to change any time soon.]

Jo-mo-lung-ma? [He repeats the name like it's some kind of foreign tongue.] What's yodeling?

[sherpahat.livejournal.com]

Even been on a mountain, man? Or something like that? When you yell, it echos - yodeling is the art of making those echos sound good.

[He's very well pleased to be listened to like this. He in fact lounges a bit]