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[blindedmewith]

Excuse me, can anyone tell me if they can read this? A quick note will be fine. There's no reason something I write down in my journal with normal ink and paper should show up in someone else's. I'm pretty sure it's scientifically impossible.

But I'm also sure that human beings don't normally hatch from giant cocoons, and if they did, they would hatch as babies. Except I did, and my brother River did, and Cara said everyone here does, so maybe 'impossible' is just something we haven't figured out the reason for yet.

So please let me know if you can read this! I don't think she was lying to me, but she might be misinformed, and anyway it's not good to just take someone's word for it when I can test the hypothesis myself.

Oh, my name is Rosalind.

Comments

[blindedmewith.livejournal.com]

Of course you can, silly, you're sitting next to me. But you're right—I can see my handwriting appear in your journal as I write in mine.

[lordofwater.livejournal.com]

That was what I meant. Mysterious devices, aren't they?

[blindedmewith.livejournal.com]

Very. I can't figure out how it works. Nothing seemed to happen when I tore out one of the blank pages.

[lordofwater.livejournal.com]

Apparently they don't need to be understood to work. There are things in the world like that. Hatching out of a cocoon, for example.

[blindedmewith.livejournal.com]

I just like to know! It's interesting, don't you think? The more we don't understand, the more we can learn.

The cocoons were definitely very strange. I wonder how we got in them.

[lordofwater.livejournal.com]

True. It could be an enchantment.

How, and from where? I have heard some wonder if we grew on the tree, but considering the content of my dream it seems unlikely to me.

[blindedmewith.livejournal.com]

An enchantment? Like magic? I'm not sure I believe in that.

What did you dream about? I mean, if you want to share. Or you could just tell me if you don't want to write it down. I know it's silly to keep writing when we're both right here, but it's still so fun to watch our writing show up in each other's journal.

[lordofwater.livejournal.com]

Why not?

It doesn't matter. I dreamed I was in a river, and there was someone who fell into the water, a little girl, I think.

[blindedmewith.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I guess I thought of magic as being imaginary.

That's a really nice dream! I hope the girl was okay.