[001; video/action; open]

[perceptum]

[ It's not certain at first whether the video has been switched on intentionally. There isn't any direct addressing of the network. There's just the spinning image of a hallway (the fifth floor, for those of you playing at home) the occasional glimpse of long, brown hair and the unmistakable sound of delighted laughter. It slows down, eventually, comes to a complete stop and the laughter abruptly cuts off. Instead of the walls, the feed shakes and jerks as she turns it around and River's face is visible, peering directly at the little device. ]

Curious name and curious nature. The walls have secrets and she doesn't know what they are.

[ She frowns a moment, then turns to eye a window with a clearly suspicious look. ]

They're hiding something.

[ She stares for a moment or two longer, then starts to skip off down the hallway again. It takes a while for the feed to cut out, in the end it only happens because she decides to sit down outside a door in one swift movement, and drops the little tablet thing in the process. ]

Comments

[not_apriest]

I'm not sure that anyone really knows.

[perceptum]

Of course no one knows. If a home holds no people is it still a home?

[not_apriest]

I suppose that would depend on the nature of the home.

[perceptum]

A house is just a house, until people arrive and give it life. Secrets are still secrets until people find out.

[not_apriest]

Is an empty house not a home if it still holds your heart?

[perceptum]

If a home holds a heart then it isn't empty.

[not_apriest]

Where does your heart live?

[perceptum]

Not in a house!

In the skies, darting from star to star. That's where she finds her serenity.

[not_apriest]

You live in an airship?

[Because he's seen one just recently for the first time and they're surprisingly roomy.]

[perceptum]

In a spaceship. More beautiful than any house, home or other.

[ She's maybe a little bit proud of that. She hasn't called anything home in a long time, of course she's going to sing praises of the one thing she considers her real home. ]

[not_apriest]

I'm afraid I don't... [Have any basis for understanding that at all?]

What's a 'spaceship'? He has an inkling from the context, but how is it possible?