[voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[The voice on the network sounds very much like a moogle, not a person. There's some strange sounds, similar to what you'd expect to hear from a forest.]

We've got someone down, kupo! Looks like a Sky Person. She landed in the spring.


[A soft, tired, female voice breaks in behind the moogle's message.] Laguna? Please?

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[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[Yes well, Squall's had a bad week. Make that two bad weeks and his grasp on common civilities are slipping a bit.]

Even if it's a coincidence, that's not really funny.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Excuses excuses. She woke up after having a baby to find herself sitting in a water-filled tree trunk. You can't see it, but this phone is getting a stern glare.]

You asked. Who are you anyway?

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[It's a good thing Squall isn't turning on the video function then.]

...

Squall.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Silence. Long, prolonged silence. You can blame Cloud for name dropping on her. Torn between stunned and disbelief, she barely manages to reply.]

What?

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[Squall is so going to kill Cloud for that.]

...

You asked.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Seems their threshold for silliness is pretty close, because they're starting to sound alike already.]

You know, that's not funny.

[Then again, Laguna said some strange stuff too. She deliberates quietly for a good long while.]

Are you really?

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[It's clear that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.]

I said that already.

[Squall is now looking through all the comments of this post.]

Yes.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Especially when they'll start headshaking in sync at Laguna's antics. Who is going to have a hell of a lot of explaining to do when he gets to her.

Of course, up until now, she was pretty convinced this is all just a bad dream, or that Cloud was a touch crazy. Babies don't go from new to adult in the matter of minutes.]

But you...

[Excuse her while her brain breaks. Several times over. Wait wait wait. That's not right. He should know her!]

I don't believe you. You didn't know who I was.

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[Squall is hoping Laguna will not mess this up for once. And his own brain is close to breaking over this.]

...

I refuse to talk about this.

...

Not here anyway.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[It's Laguna. He'll mess it up somehow.

She's closer to annoyed than brain broke, but she's at least got just cause. She's sitting in a forest with no husband and no baby and someone claiming to be hers but not know her. Oh, and there are mythical creatures forcing spring water on her too.]

You're the one who brought it up.

[Sorry, Squall qualifies for nagging, just like Ellone and Laguna. Eventually the mothering will kick in too.]

...this is a nightmare. I'm dreaming.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Few minutes later, the mothering kicks in. In case the crazy is in fact true.

Not that she's totally convinced.]

Are you okay?

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[And Squall's voice is flat and emotionless.]

Just fine.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Another long silence. She doesn't believe that he's fine either.]

How old are you?

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[He's not budging from that.]

...

Twenty-one.

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[That's only four years younger than herself. She stares at the phone, watching its lines go blurry.

There's a small thud, then silence.

She's had enough stress for one day and fainted.]

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

[ !! ]

Hey...you alright? Where's Laguna when you need him?

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[There's the rustle of something going on, which includes a conversation heavy on the kupo interjections and things like 'Is she dead?' and 'Dunk her in the spring!'

A good long while later, Raine's audible again, but at a distance.]

Where is Laguna? I'll be a grandmother before he gets here.

[Voice]

[tempest-lion.livejournal.com]

He had better not had gotten lost again. [It'll be just like that man to get lost at important times.]

[Voice]

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[They know him too well.]

He probably has.