video;

[tenminutes]

[ The video flickers on with Yuri sitting in what looks like a nurse's office, in the bed. She's dressed in a pair of pink pajamas. Something seems a little bit different about her, somehow. Not wrong, or bad, just.. different. She's got her laptop on her knees and she smiles to the community. ]

Everything turned out okay, you can turn off your worried frowns before you get wrinkles. I have to go see everyone else off in a little bit, but I've got a bit of time right now so I figured I'd let everyone know I was okay. Did I miss anything important?

Comments

[tenminutes]

Tease you incessantly about it. [ Yuri smiles. All of that malice she held before, it's gone. ]

[docfoul]

I wonder if you might one day have that chance.

[tenminutes]

I look forward to it. Of course, I guess you'd already know if I could right?

[docfoul]

I suppose I would.
Unless, of course, unbeknownst to you, I were no longer capable of knowing it with certainty.

[tenminutes]

Are you trying to tell me you don't know everything anymore?

[docfoul]

Am I?

[tenminutes]

I don't know, are you? We can go back and forth like this all day.

[docfoul]

I have time to spare.

[tenminutes]

Me too. Want to play cards?

[docfoul]

Why not?

[tenminutes]

No cheating!

[ She thinks for a minute. ] What do you want to play?

[docfoul]

I don't suppose you would appreciate any of the card games we had on Alternia.

[tenminutes]

I probably don't know any of them.

[docfoul]

And you should probably consider yourself fortunate for that.
Would you like to share your favourite Earth card game?

[tenminutes]

Hmm.. [ Yuri thinks for a second. Out of all of the card games she knows.. ] Menko.

[docfoul]

Would you care to state the rules?
Purely for the record, you see.

[tenminutes]

Everyone has their cards and you take turns slapping them down one at a time. When you slap your card down, you try to create a gust of wind strong enough to flip the other person's card. If you flip the card, you get it. Whoever ends up with the whole deck at the end wins.

[docfoul]

Very well. I will play. However...
As much as I would like to join you in your world, I cannot leave this place.

[tenminutes]

Oh. Huh. Can I go there?

[docfoul]

I don't see why not.

[tenminutes]

I'm not going to get trapped am I?

[docfoul]

I would expect not. After all, you aren't bound to this afterlife.

[tenminutes]

"Expect." If I get stuck there I'm going to personally find a way to turn you into a person and beat the crap out of you.