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[imfollowinghim]

[So for the last twenty minutes or so, anyone living on or walking through the first floor will probably have been hearing a strange combination of noises: the whir of remote controlled toy airplanes, a noise that kind of sounds like a TIE Fighter scream, swearing and then the sound of something plastic and metal getting smashed. Hard. Maybe a couple times, just to make sure it's dead.

When Bucky clicks on the video feed, he looks at least mildly pissed. At worst, definitely pissed. His hair's a little rumpled, and he's carrying an absurdly patriotic looking shield on his left arm and doesn't even give a shit anymore that he's got it on him.

Yes, he's figured out the theme of the flood. Yes, he knows this was stupid, but sometimes you kind of just can't stop yourself before the thought happens, and so now he's being attacked by toy airplanes and tanks.]

Has anyone figured out how to make this shit stop once it gets started? [Any further bitching is being cut off by the appearance of another model Stuka that has apparently decided to start dive bombing his head.]

Aw, mother- [The video feed goes sideways and then veers up to the ceiling for a moment giving you another glimpse of the toy plane before Bucky just switches the comm off so he can focus on knocking it out of the air with the shield.]

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[warisart]

בן מאוד קטנה?

[It's certainly Ben on the screen, and he even manages to appear somewhere between both confused and amused, but he's not speaking English. Or Russian.

He is, however, genuinely concerned about what Bucky is doing with that shield, and why there's a toy store attacking his head.]

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[imfollowinghim]

[Bucky just looks confused as hell when he gets the comm back on and sees the message, because he definitely did not understand a word you just said.]

Sorry, what?

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[warisart]

[To which Ben, of course, patiently repeats himself.]

בן מאוד קטנה.

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[imfollowinghim]

Did you wish you could speak Russian?

[Or whatever the hell language that is?]

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[warisart]

[Bucky he already speaks Russian try to keep up.]

צרכן הבינלאומצרכן הבינלאומ, צרכן הבינלאומ. צרכן הבינלאומ.

צרכן הבינלאומ?

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[imfollowinghim]

[Look, you're lucky he remembers enough to know he taught you how to play baseball. u__u]

I still can't understand you. Does writing it down help?

[And he could probably wish he could, but that seems like it might not necessarily solve the problem so much as make it worse.]

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[warisart]

[Ben doesn't frown, then, because he doesn't frown. Instead he points behind Bucky at another toy airplane.]

צרכן.

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[imfollowinghim]

[Bucky turns around and lets out a long suffering sigh.] Thanks.

[And then because hey, what the hell, Steve makes this look easy so might as well give it a shot - ignore the fact that the last time he'd tried this back home, he'd almost shattered the windshield on Phillip's jeep - he chucks the shield at it. And misses. Oops.]

[maced_eggs]

Thassa lovely dinner plate you have, Bucky. And the plane.

Can I play?

[imfollowinghim]

Yeah, sure. There're a couple tanks around, too.

[He's punctuating that statement by stepping on one. Hard. B(]

[maced_eggs]

You're a bit like Godzilla, doing that.

[imfollowinghim]

Who's Godzilla?

[maced_eggs]

Godzilla! God of lizards? The big stomping dinosaur that trashes Tokyo?

[imfollowinghim]

I can honestly say I've never heard of a dinosaur trashing Tokyo.

[maced_eggs]

You are missing out, man. Godzilla is the best giant monster there is.

[imfollowinghim]

Is that a real thing where you're from?

[maced_eggs]

Yeah. Yeah, Godzilla is very real. You don't fuck with him.

[This is less a lie and more Mason being so ridiculously gullible]

[imfollowinghim]

[Look, he has no idea, although he has at this point figured he should be taking everything that comes out of your mouth with a grain of salt. BV]

I'll keep that in mind.

You gonna help out, or what?

[maced_eggs]

Uhm. No?

Can I say no? I don't do magic, Bucky.

[imfollowinghim]

You said you wanted to play.

[maced_eggs]

Well, when you say 'help' I think it means actual work.

[imfollowinghim]

It means smashing some toy tanks and airplanes.

[maced_eggs]

...That, I don't mind.

[adelphoktonos]

This one isn't so bad. Not like the last. [Helena's eating powdered mini-donuts from out of one of her pockets. Just because it's magic food appearing in her pockets, doesn't mean she's going to let it go untouched.] What is it you wished for?

[imfollowinghim]

[Helena, that is a far better wish. He wants that one.]

That I was back home. [More or less, anyway.] Definitely didn't mean this part of it.

[adelphoktonos]

I wondered, about the noise. [She makes a passable imitation of the Stuka noise, complete with a swooping plane hand motion, then pops another donut in her mouth.] It took me back to my room over and over. Wishing I was home.

[imfollowinghim]

You figure out how to make it stop? Because I'm definitely not wishing to get bugged by these things until the flood's over.

[adelphoktonos]

I decided to just stay here until it ends. [I mean, she has plenty of food, so...] What if you wished the opposite?

[imfollowinghim]

And then I get stuck here forever?

[adelphoktonos]

Floods end.

[imfollowinghim]

I think I'll take my chances without accidentally making time stop.

[adelphoktonos]

Please yourself. Have fun time fighting your toys.

[imfollowinghim]

I'll do my best.

[strangehistorian]

Have you tried wishing that it would stop?

[imfollowinghim]

Then I get stuck frozen in time until I figure out a way to unstick everything? No thanks.

[strangehistorian]

Hm. More specific wording, perhaps. I think Harvey is a lawyer!

[imfollowinghim]

Who's Harvey?

[strangehistorian]

He's an inmate that works in the library.

[imfollowinghim]

I guess I'll keep him in mind.