Rat | 001 | Video | Day 68

[bluesrat]

[It's pretty clear from the video that the device has been turned on by accident, since the first view is partly up someone's nose. It's not a small nose, but a squinting blue eye quickly replaces it as the central focus, before the video pulls out to show the whole, narrow, lined face. The owner of the face mutters, half to himself, but clearly audible over the sounds of the water on the shore nearby.]

Hunh. It didn't do that before.

[There's another startling moment of video while he taps the screen with one calloused finger.]

Calling Dick Tracy? I don't know where Cape Kore is or how I got here, but I'm pretty sure you don't want me. If anyone's listening, I'd be glad for directions to the train station, and I'll just be on my way.

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[bluesrat]

I guess I must be. I take it you're not?

[burnburnburn]

I never even knew what you inhabitants called it until I was kidnapped to here. I'm from Gaia, a far more sensible planet than the one all of you are from. We can see a reflection of your world in our sky at times. We call it the Mystic Moon.

[bluesrat]

I've... heard the term Gaia, on Earth. But we have our own moon.

[burnburnburn]

Someone else told me that too. It's the name of a goddess on your planet. It looks like you've got at least one other person from your land here.

[bluesrat]

In a sense. Mythologically speaking, she'd be translated to 'Mother Earth'...