026 | VIDEO & SPAM

[myresponsibility]

[Although there is a tiny bit of shaky cam going on, Peter has messed around with this thing enough before to know what to do with it (more or less, anyway) so the camera settles on his face pretty quickly. He looks puzzled and maybe a little concerned, but not really afraid. Not yet, anyway.] How come there are so many grown ups now? Did the other kids get to go home? How come I didn't? [Open Spam] [It's weird, to see how some people are still here but so much older than he remembers them being a few days ago. There are a lot of new people too, and he regards them with some amount of caution because he knows better than to talk to strangers here, especially because he knows people get hurt even if there's magic on board to fix them. He sort of wants to find the doctor who used magic and ask him how he fixed James yesterday, but he can't seem to find him anywhere. So he tries to mostly stay out of people's way, and not ask too many annoying questions or make faces when he hears them swear. He doesn't care if people think he's a big kid - he's five, and he knows he's not supposed to use those words, but he can still try not to make people like Chris annoyed when he looks at them funny for saying it. Peter can be found in the dining hall quietly getting food like the weirdly self sufficient little freak that he is, examining the televisions in the common rooms, cautiously bouncing a basketball in the gym, and basically anywhere a five year old can get on the Barge without getting into too much horrible trouble. Hopefully.] [Spam for Bond] [There's a good chance someone might not even realize there's anything different about the common room on the sixth floor after Chris and Bond are long gone from the hallway. Everything looks more or less the same, nothing's out of place, nothing's really been added to it. It's just a common room on the Barge. Except there is currently a small child tucked behind the television set in as tight a ball as he possibly can, trembling and sniffling with his face pressed against his knees. It's a quiet noise, but someone who's paying attention will be able to hear it. Not that Peter particularly wants anyone to, and he's desperately trying to contain it because he doesn't want anyone else to find him, to be grabbed and dragged and shaken and told he's going to die. The fun of being here has totally worn off.]

[ooc: responses will come from theitsybitsyspider!]

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[pvtparts]

[...Welp. Okay then. Time to roll with it.]

It's a little complicated to explain, lad. The other kids haven't gone home, they just grew up.

[theitsybitsyspider]

How come I didn't grow up too?

[pvtparts]

We're going through a bit of a flood at the present moment. It's not so much that you didn't grow up, but that you grew back down.

[theitsybitsyspider]

Oh.

But you're still you?

[pvtparts]

Fortunately for some.

[Like Mal. Have you seen the dumb pirate yet, Peter?]

[theitsybitsyspider]

[No, but dumb pirates sound awesome.]

Cool. This is weird.

[pvtparts]

[Go check her out. She's more dumb than you'd expect.]

That's a word for it.

[theitsybitsyspider]

Is the doctor with the magic still here?

[He has like six thousand questions and all of them have to do with how do you fix stab wounds.]

[pvtparts]

I'm not all that familiar with the doctors around here. You're going to have to be more specific than that.

[theitsybitsyspider]

He's tall, [Everyone is taller than you are, Peter.] And has black hair and kind of... Big ears? [He mentions this somewhat sheepishly, as he doesn't want to cause offense to said doctor. But. It's true, Merlin has big ears.]

[pvtparts]

[Polly shakes her head.]

Sorry, lad. Haven't seen anyone matching that description.

[theitsybitsyspider]

Aw, man. [He looks genuinely disappointed, but seems to bounce back quickly.]

So, what is the magic doing to everyone else?

[pvtparts]

Well, between my corporal thinking she's a pirate and you being so suddenly short, I'd say there's something about the flow of time afoot. Couldn't say for sure though.

[theitsybitsyspider]

You're lucky you're not different. This seems super weird.

[pvtparts]

[Lucky? Hm, well. Polly's not sure she'd go that far.]

Someone's got to look out for lads like you.

[theitsybitsyspider]

Well, thank you.