[text/video] un: linneus

[inaurare]

Good day, everyone.

While I hate for my second of these... missives to be another message asking for help, I fear that is precisely what it is and I do beg your patience.

I recently came home to find a large egg sitting on my doorstep. With little idea what to do I brought it home, kept it swaddled and warm and eventually it hatched. The animal that emerged... I have never seen its like before. It appears to be a sort of horse, but much shorter, with a longer neck and a smaller face. And a good deal... fluffier? Than any horse I've ever seen.

She has taken well to eating grass, and has shown to particularly favour munching on my flowerbeds. It seems she is managing well enough - flourishing, even. But I had hoped someone might enlighten me as to what kind of creature she is, and whether there might be other foods I can provide for her?

Also a name - I confess I have always struggled terribly with naming things! So any suggestions would be quite welcomed.

[the text is followed up by a brief video clip - slightly wobbly, as Linneus turns the camera on himself-]

So that you have an idea of what it is you are naming...

[turning the camera around, the scene is quite cosy now that his home is settled again. A fire crackles away, and there is a small table near his armchair bearing a cup of tea, his feet resting on a small stool. The cosiness would be complete perhaps with a blanket, but his "creature", dozing with her head on his lap, is more than making up for the lack of one.

To those familiar, a llama indoors is probably a strange sight - stranger still this llama's size, as she can't be more than three feet tall. She snores, and there is the sound of Linneus chuckling softly before the video feed is cut.]


((Please feel free to flood Linn with name suggestions for the miniature llama he now has? ))

Comments

[circulets]

I can relate, in a way. Sorey and I-- my friend and I--only just recently were able to travel outside of our village before coming here.

[inaurare]

It's an eye-opener, certainly!

And you're an acquaintance of Sorey's? I've happened to meet him once or twice since arriving here.

[circulets]

Sorey and I are childhood friends. It seems as though I've run into a lot of his acquaintances here.

[inaurare]

Having someone awake from home - and someone you are close to... that must be a great comfort to the both of you.

[circulets]

While that might be true - there's been a time where one has been awake, and the other asleep. It's unfortunate that we can't control that here.

[inaurare]

I think that is true of many. And there are others, still, who have returned to sleep.

But you are awake together now?

[circulets]

We are. At the same time, I think it's safe to say that we're both staying on our toes, too.

I've heard that a good number of those who've woken up here have gone back to sleep.
At the same time, every time that happens, it's only a matter of time before others wake up.

[inaurare]

It is heartening and disheartening all at once.

It may be more productive to concern myself with the here and now but I do worry - even though we are far from this - if all the sleepers should wake, what then? Surely that is far more than this world can hold...

[circulets]

It almost sounds as though they control who awakens and who sleeps. I have a feeling we don't have to worry about that.

[inaurare]

I've discussed as much with someone before, but I'm not sure I believe it to be a matter of choice. If it were, any number of people from my home would have been picked over me. Yet I am the only Ivorian waking.

I was under the impression it was a matter of health, at least?

[circulets]

I'm not entirely sure that's true. We've all been chosen for a reason, haven't we?

[inaurare]

If there was one for their ‘choosing’ me, I confess I’m not sure what it is! But I should... have faith, I suppose?

[circulets]

Or try. We don't exactly know what they're thinking.

[inaurare]

This is true. I suppose there isn't more to do than play it by ear at this point.

[circulets]

Just be careful.