warm front

[cumulonimbus]

After Mathilde has left (and Stormy has her schedule for the next few days all written down), Stormy goes aprowl through the house again to make sure she's clear on the layout and see if anybody else wants to talk to her while she is still novel.

Comments

[cumulonimbus]

"Oh. I guess that you could check by having somebody make a noise the same way at a bunch of different distances and see if you could still tell when they were doing it from farther away than somebody else?"

[calendarofcrime]

"That might work," she says. "It would need to be somewhere that was very quiet otherwise."

[cumulonimbus]

"Yeah. I don't know where would be good."

[calendarofcrime]

"I don't know if there is anywhere big enough and quiet enough to work."

[cumulonimbus]

"Maybe not."

[calendarofcrime]

"And it still might look the same whether I am hearing better or paying better attention. Oh, he's gone inside now."

[cumulonimbus]

"How are you talking to me and listening to tiny things like that all at once?"

[calendarofcrime]

"I don't know. It sort of confuses me that other people can't."

[cumulonimbus]

"I guess I pay attention to a lot of different things when I'm up being the sky," muses Stormy. "But that's different."

[calendarofcrime]

"Is it? What is the difference?"

[cumulonimbus]

"Well, for one thing I stop paying attention to my body. And it's like I am the sky while I'm doing it so it's more like noticing I'm - hungry and tired at the same time, than like listening to two different sounds, because it's all happening in the sky I'm being."

[calendarofcrime]

"Oh," she says. "I don't think that's the same as what I do."

[cumulonimbus]

"Yeah, probably not."

[calendarofcrime]

She nods.

[cumulonimbus]

Stormy gets up. "I'll go see if you heard right."

[calendarofcrime]

"Okay," says Rahi.



"It was nice talking to you."

[cumulonimbus]

"You too!" says Stormy, smiling, and then she goes down the stairs.

[nonbird]

Rook is chatting with Mercy in some non-Imperial language!

[whipstitch]

Mercy has ceased his spinning, although he still has the wheel in front of him. It appears he is out of fluff.

[cumulonimbus]

Well, Stormy doesn't want to interrupt, so she will sort of loiter.

[whipstitch]

"Hi, Stormy!"

[nonbird]

"Oh, hello," says Rook, peering at her.

[cumulonimbus]

"Hi! I decided I want to know what all the plants that are in the garden are and Rahi says they aren't labeled so I should ask you."

[nonbird]

"You can certainly ask me!" he says. "Come out to the garden and I'll show you everything. I'd forget something if I tried to tell you off the top of my head."

[cumulonimbus]

"Okay," says Stormy, notebook at the ready. "I'm not interrupting?"