01 - Video: OPERATION: poke it with a stick

[magicalcupboard]

[What is this? The communicator turns on to

a stick. A long, twisty, gloriously brown thing that is repeatedly poking its screen.

Holding the stick is a kid wearing shorts and long socks and a beige polo shit but that's not at all important. It's a kid, and he thinks he's getting closer to triggering an unexploded bomb every time he pokes the strange device. He looks far too bored to be doing what he thinks he's doing.]

Boring, stupid thing. Germans can't even make proper bombs, the pigs.

[Poke poke poke

Alright, he's getting bored and he's dropping the stick

and he's bending over to pick up some rocks. Can you guess what they're for?]

Comments

[ video ]

[magicalcupboard]

We-ell...

he's just as horrible. He's my brother.

[ video ]

[entreats]

But if he's your brother, he can't be that bad, right? [ Ange's rather attached to her own family. ] It might be nice to not be alone here, after all.

[ video ]

[magicalcupboard]

I'm not scared of being alone!

[ video ]

[entreats]

I didn't say you were scared of it. After all, being scared of being alone and not wanting to be alone are two different things entirely, right?

[ video ]

[magicalcupboard]

...well, I don't think Susan is here.

[ video ]

[entreats]

... Another sibling of yours?

[ video ]

[magicalcupboard]

[Nod!] --she's like mum. [Which would be a damming thing to say, in some other occasion.]

[ video ]

[entreats]

[ There's a pause, and then there's something she thinks of that maybe will make the kid feel a bit more comfortable - a common ground. ]

.. You know, I have an older brother too. He's not in this place either, so I'm alone as well.

[ video ]

[magicalcupboard]

Is he all rot, too?

[ video ]

[entreats]

Yeah, he actually is a lot of the time. [ even so, it's.. more in a fond way, really. ] It wouldn't be an understatement to say he's a complete idiot.

[ video ]

[magicalcupboard]

[He heaves out a sigh.] I don't know why they don't try harder.

[ video ]

[entreats]

That's just the way older siblings are, isn't it? As the younger smarter ones we just have to put up with them. [ for once a smile plays around her lips just a little bit. ]