Performance and Dreamcatchers

[pipers_son]

Who: Joker, those working entertainment, and whoever wants to do fun arts and crafts
When: The day after the orientation, and then after the ringmaster's announcement
Where: The Big Tent and one of the side stages, respectively
What: Joker gets his performing ducks all in a row, and then does an arts and crafts corner. As you do. Mingle log!

At around ten in the morning, as he told a few other workers and anyone who'd been listening in on the walkie talkies, Joker starts to radio in those who are working under him to meet up in the big top. Hope you had breakfast and not a hangover! Of course, for anyone who tries not to attend, Joker will cheerfully hunt them down and bother them into going.

Sorry, mandatory, you know how it is.

It's later in the day, after the ringleaders' own announcement, that eventually Joker makes another of himself, this time to the general channel. It's an invitation to one of the side stages to make dreamcatchers together, for anyone who still craves company or simply doesn't know what the hell a dreamcatcher even is. Along with that, Joker has taken it upon himself to make sure signs advertising this are plastered all over the carnival.

He drew them himself. Please appreciate the scribbled stars.

Comments

Radio

[waitingforplayer2]

Yukine-san! Did you change, too?

Radio

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ Yukine delays in responding at this. ]

Just a little. [ She tries speaking as if it was no problem over the other end with only some success. ] My eyes are turning yellow, and I think I became a little taller. Nothing to worry about, really.

[waitingforplayer2]

Taller? [ Huh. ] By how much?...

[coinsforlockerrooms]

An inch... I think I'm growing more. I used to be almost a meter and sixty centimeters tall. My uniform still fits me.

[ So far. ]

It's nothing to worry about, really...

[waitingforplayer2]

Mm... Vietnam said that our bodies are reacting to the magic here. I guess that's what's happening.

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ There's a pause on the other end of the radio, as something she needs to cope with. ]

I might change even more with what my contract was. [ She stays silent on the other end, before continuing. ] I think we should accept this the best we can. After all, we will continue to be ourselves, won't we?

[waitingforplayer2]

Of course! Um... what was it?

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ She sounds halfway between eager and halfway between terrified as she answers. ]

I'm going to learn white magic. I'm going to return to Hikarizaka with the power to help people through magic.

[waitingforplayer2]

[ Her eyes widen. ] She's... going to let you bring magic home with you?

[coinsforlockerrooms]

Hn! It should be possible. If whatever came to my town was magic powerful enough to happen in there, I could return home with it, help more people than I ever imagined with it. The changes could be worth it!

[ The last sentence sounds more as if she's trying to convince herself. ]

[waitingforplayer2]

... I'm here if things get worse, okay? Um... if I can help. And we can go to Zecora, too.

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ Zecora would heal them if they ever got wounded. That they knew. But once they changed, there was a limit to what else would be restored of herself. ]

Can I meet you there, Chiaki-chan?

[waitingforplayer2]

Uh huh! At Zecora's?

[coinsforlockerrooms]

Hn! I don't feel bad right now. Just a few observations wouldn't hurt.

[ Pause. ]

I'd just like the company.

[waitingforplayer2]

Mm... I'm at the trailers.

[coinsforlockerrooms]

I'll see you there.

... thank you, Chiaki-chan.

[waitingforplayer2]

Mm!

[ Chiaki sits outside her trailer, still playing her game, ears twitching lazily. They swivel towards Yukine as she approaches, even though Chiaki keeps her attention on the little handheld. ]