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[substrictus]

[The device clicks on and for a moment it's silent before this melody starts to play softly and then Oz's voice sounds. Maybe he didn't realize the comm'd clicked on but now that it's on, might as well use it]

I feel really bad that I missed the holiday stuff... [a pause] Maybe I shouldn't have went and wandered around the mansion for so long like that.

Though I wonder how everyone's doing. Anyone have some plans for the New Year?

I'd like to hear them if anyone's willing to share~~~

Oh~!! Gil also told me there's people here who are... [a pause as he thinks] human forms of nations or countries and said there's a lot of them here. I only wondered because I want to meet you all.

You'd make history seem so much cooler than what I learned in all of my textbooks!

Comments

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Really? Well, my house is just next to India's and Afghanistan's. It was 2009 at home when I left.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Whoah! What are those two like?

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Afghanistan is here too! She's small and kind of timid and she gets bullied a lot, but she's really helpful and nice!

Indo is my older sister and she's a brat!

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Why does she get bullied?

I've never really had a sibling so I can't entirely say I know how it feels, but is it nice at all? To have real family?

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Because she's so nice. People take advantage of her.

Well, it's probably not a family the way humans think of it. But I like my sisters, and I liked my papa before he left.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Aah. I understand that. I have... a friend who's in the same situation actually~

Oh! Yeah... I do have a sister but I haven't seen her in years so it's just me, her and my Uncle Oscar that are around now. [won't even go into the dad-subject]

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

I really have to look after her a lot, or she's just hopeless. Do you have to do that?

So you aren't close with her? Me and my sisters aren't so close since papa left. But we can still rely on each other.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Yep~~ I do~

Well.. it's not so much that as I kinda... disappeared for ten years. If she was here though, I would care for her more than anything..

But as long as you can rely on each other, that's good~

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Disappeared? Where'd you go?

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Ah... they call it the Abyss. For me, I was only there for not even ten minutes but when I got out, it had been ten years..

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

O-oh wow. I'm sorry. That's...a lot to have to face, and you seem really young...

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

You don't have to be sorry, it's... fine.

As for me, my age? I'm fifteen~

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Fifteen isn't that old to a nation! But I guess you aren't a kid anymore.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Well... technically i'm twenty five. I just look fifteen still~

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

If that time didn't pass for you, I'd say you're still fifteen.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

I always liked thinking that I really am twenty five, since time passed for everyone else.

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Well what you think about it is what matters most!

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

I-It is?

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Well, sure! You're the one it affects, after all.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

You have a point~

If you don't mind me asking~~ How old are you?

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Weeeeell, that depends on how you look at it! I gained my independence in 1947 and it's 2009 now, so you could say that I'm 62 years old. But I existed before independence, so I'm really actually older than that.

And obviously my body is that of a child because I'm still rather young for a nation! So it's a little hard to say.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

Whoah~ You're like my friend Break~

Nobody knows how old he really is either.

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Hm, but if he's a human, he should know, right? With nations it's a little less straightforward.

[substrictus.livejournal.com]

He does, but he's been around for a while but he doesn't physically age.

[pakisunotpaku.livejournal.com]

Huh. Your world sounds really interesting!