[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

[PANIC. PANIC. PANIC.]

There's-there's letters! On my arms! A-and my hands!

What's going on?!

[have a muffled sob, Keep]

Comments

[Audio]

[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

Rapunzel? What's wrong?

[Hero time?]

[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

[SOB]

I-I don't know! There's letters -- all over my arms!

[Audio]

[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

[Yep, that doesn't sound good.]

Are they doing anything?

[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

It...it looks like letters!

[lightwithin]

[Uh oh. This doesn't sound good.]

Like the tattoos?

[70ftandcounting]

Yes-!

But...but worse!

[Audio]

[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

Have you tried your shiny hair thing?

[lightwithin]

Worse?

Are the tattoos bad?

[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

Yes! It didn't work!

[AND IT ALWAYS WORKS]

[70ftandcounting]

Well...well yes!

...

Aren't they?

text

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ooh, 2o that'2 iit.

[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

I--

Wh-what?

[text]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ehehe, nothiing.

but you 2hould be fiine 2oon, at lea2t ii thiink that'2 how iit work2.

[Audio]

[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

That's not good then.

Where are the words coming from?

[lightwithin]

Hmmm... Well, mine hasn't really done anything. It's strange, but it doesn't hurt.

Is yours different?

[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

I think--

[She whispers.]

I think they're coming from the book!

[70ftandcounting]

It doesn't do anything, no. But--

But doesn't it freak you out that it's there? I mean, it wasn't before!

[text]

[70ftandcounting]

You--

You think? It'll go away?

[text]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

well, eiither that or cover all of you.

but they're just word2, ii 2tiill don't 2ee the problem.

[lightwithin]

Heh, I guess I hadn't thought about it.

It's strange that I don't remember getting it.

That means... Something must've happened between when I left home and I woke up here... Doesn't it?

[Audio]

[70ftandcounting]

[Have a strangled gasp]

All of me?!

[70ftandcounting]

[Rapunzel cannot be the only one that has put some thought into this.]

Yes! Yes, exactly!

I just...I don't know what.

[text] 4 life! ...or until further notice, at least.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

yeah, but iit2 ju2t iink.

unle22 iit2 doiing 2omethiing other than lookiing weiird, do you feel anythiing?

[lightwithin]

Well, we made it here. It can't have been too bad.

[Ever the optimist.]

And your tattoo's not doing anything strange, right?

[Because that would be bad.]

[70ftandcounting]

And if we don't remember it...maybe you're right! It wasn't so bad after all.

[She twists to try to look at the tattoo itself, but she can't really see it. It's between her shoulder blades and unless one is quite flexible, it's a rather impossible place to look without a mirror.]

I don't...think so, no.

[But she doesn't want to be covered in ink!]