005 - audio

[hoodwinking]

[A little girl's voice comes through the journal. Except, it's a little more hardened and bitter than usual! Anyone who's spoken to B.B. before may not find the voice instantly recognizable, a definite change from the usual high pitched tone the young lady has.]

Are we done crying about everyone leaving yet?

I've been here what, half a year now? I get it at this point. Who stays and who goes is completely up to some asinine bullshit whim. But guess what? Everyone whining won't bring them back. That's just how it is.

Grow a pair and move the hell on already. Leaving is what humans do. If you don't know that by now, there's no hope for any of you.

[Don't mind her. She might be sampling some fruits from way up high.]

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[voice]

[hoodwinking]

Because when you hear it over and over and over, it gets annoying and hard to ignore. How hard is it to understand that some people just leave?

[voice]

[grizzly_tea]

You could ask the very same question about death. Death has been occurring for as long as there has been life, yet people still grieve over it regardless. It's simply a more common occurrence here to lose someone than for them to die, because death is not nearly as permanent a thing with Davy Jones manipulating things.

[voice]

[hoodwinking]

That's completely different, though! One hundred percent different! If someone leaves, where do they go? Home? At least they're not being used as a slave for some ghost! If someone dies, they don't come back!

They-- [She stops. There's a very noticeable pause.] They don't get that luxury away from this place.

[voice]

[grizzly_tea]

What evidence do you have that all of those who vanish return home? What if they do simply die? Or worse? We don't know the fate of every person who disappears, and that's one of the things that's so troubling.

[voice]

[hoodwinking]

Has anyone thought to ask? Are there scars or trauma or anything that insists that? One just can't forget death that easily.

[voice]

[grizzly_tea]

Perhaps the ones that never do come back are simply dead and we never see the body so we have no proof of this. Not everyone who vanishes reappears, and that's one of the many fears that people here harbor when a loved one disappears.

[voice]

[hoodwinking]

[She's calmed down a bit, getting her baring back, but it's still hard to shake the thoughts.]

Well then. If they're dead, that sounds like another failing on the crew's part. Protect their own? Ha. How sad.

[voice]

[grizzly_tea]

How exactly are you supposed to protect those who are simply spirited away in the middle of the night with no warning?

[voice]

[hoodwinking]

Be prepared for anything. There's always a way to keep ghosts away from you.