estoria | [OPEN] There, by the Waterside

Who:

givesalittlewhistle & OPEN
When: Mid-June IC/Beginning of April OOC
Where: Around the City
What: Part One: Hikari has her new Camera and wants to try it out | Part Two: weapons training (sort of)
Rating/Warning: (possible talks of fighting involving children)

I.

[If there was one positive thing about that last ViViD game she'd entered...it was that, combined with her school allowance and other savings, it put her at more than enough credits to buy the camera she wanted.]

[It was small. Easy enough to hold in her young hands, and light enough to carry around her neck on a string. Right next to her whistle, and atop the crest of light she kept beneath her shirt. It was also stylish, with a silver casing and even a little view screen in the back so that she could see the image she'd just captured without having to print it out first. Even better, thanks to the small card she was able to insert to add memory, she could take hundreds of pictures before having to delete any and make room for new ones!]

[It also meant she had plenty of leeway to experiment! Which is precisely why, for most of that particular morning, anyone might come across the eight-year-old girl wandering aimlessly around the city looking for things to shoot. She took pictures of the trees. The school. The shrine. The shops.]

[But...what she found she enjoyed most were taking pictures of the people. Especially when they barely had time to pose.]

Smile!

[Click]

II.

[The camera wasn't her only purchase, though this one had been a little more...spontaneous.]

[A glimpse in a window that inspired something she'd been wondering in the back of her mind for some time. Ever since that awful fighting game. She had come away from it mostly unscathed, yes, in no small part due to the fact that she'd reached for a weapon. Not a sword or bow and arrow or anything she could have hurt herself with, though. No, Hikari had reached for a long staff. And wielded it quite well for a novice.]

[Which was to say, she didn't smack herself in the face with it once. Success?]

[So, when she found a rubber training version of the same weapon with foam ends, it was like a sign. It didn't cost much, and when she first held it in her hands, it was even lighter than she remembered the wooden version being.]

[She took it to the park. Tailmon hovered as always, although this time on the ground. More than once, she swatted a little at the staff edges as they came near her, and it was only because of how soft they felt compared to most weapons that she wasn't more concerned. In fact, if anything, the little digimon looked proud of her partner for wanting to better defend herself ~~though slight put out she hadn't opted for the bow and arrow~~.]

I just wish I knew more so that I could teach you myself.

[Hikari was currently practicing spinning it in her hands, getting used to the way the weight shifted and the center of balance followed its movement. She didn't dare turn her head until it stopped, and called out to Tailmon without taking her eyes away from her current task.]

It's okay. I can...probably...figure this out...by myself...

[Or until somebody else came along to help her.]

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No?

But I thought ghosts were the spirits of people that died. If you're not dead...what are you?

Nooo, I was unborn like this.

[How could somebody be unborn?]

Oh. I see.

So you're...just something different. That's all. [Not a digimon, but definitely not human.] That's...pretty cool.

It is? I guess, I've never met normies as friendly as the ones here, that's cool too.

[Normies.]

[Hikari was going to assume that meant...either humans, or else simply people who weren't like her.]

How come? You seem really nice. Why wouldn't anyone want to be friendly around you?

[ Sorry, no one has told her not to call humans that yet. She's a bit of an air fin. ]

Because normies and monsters don't really get along where I'm from.

[Oh.]

Why not?

Because they think we'll eat them, probably.

[...okay, Hikari was mostly certain that wasn't true. At least, not the ghost in front of her. If she were going to attack, she already would have...right?]

I guess...sometimes, people get scared by things that seem different than them. Or things they don't know much about.

[ No, Sirena doesn't eat people. ]

Yeah. We're trying to get along better, but it's hard when we're scared of each otter.

...but I'm not scared!

[Granted, she was only one person...but it was a start.]

Shank you.

[ She smiles brightly. She's happy that there's humans who aren't afraid of her. ]

You're welcome.

[Hikari always strived to make other around her happy. In part because it made her feel happy to see them happy. But sometimes...it surprised even her at how easy such a thing could be.]

I'm Sirena.

[ She doesn't remember if she's introduced herself yet or not. ]

Who're you?

[Ah! That's right. She hadn't properly introduced herself. Something which she immediately corrected by taking a step back so she could offer a polite bow in greeting.]

I'm Hikari. Yagami Hikari.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Sirena-san.

[ San? Oh, it was something that she had heard before but didn't really use herself.

She bowed back, but ended up doing a complete somersault. ]

Boo too.

[Hikari let out a small giggle at that.]

[Then, while Sirena was busy with her mid-air summersault, she held up her camera once more and took another picture. A perfectly spontaneous, candid shot. Click!]

[ Sirena doesn't seem to notice that she's taking another picture at all, and just smiles at her as she finishes her turn.

Just. Smiling and slowly blinking until a cleaning robot passes them by and she starts to look at that instead. ]

[When she noticed the ghost mermaid's attention had been diverted, Hikari slowly followed her gaze. Curious as to what--oh!]

That's one of the new robots, isn't it? Do you know them?

[ It takes her a while to answer, what with her attention being elsewhere. ]

Noo, we don't have robots like that where I'm from.

We don't either. Not in the Real World. But there are some digimon that look a little like that.

[Robots, that was. Or androids or cyborgs or however one chose to classify them.]

What's digimon?

[ Her attention is back to the girl now. ]

[Well, to put it simply?]

A creature from the Digital World. Different from you or me. And from each other. They come in all shapes and sizes and types.

Off coast, everyone's different from each otter.

...well, I guess you could say that everybody's different from everybody. Now that I think about it.

[But that's what makes each individual so special!]

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