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[dualikey]

hi guys! uhhhh i hope i'm doing this right

my name's sora and some friends and me are trying to build a boat!


we finished a raft first cause it was easier, but i've only seen hand tools laying around so getting the wood and shaping it and stuff sure is taking awhile. we've made a couple before so even though we don't have anything fancy it'll probably just take a few days, but it'd sure go a lot faster with help.

and maybe sandpaper, i only found a little bit.

anyway, is anyone else used to building stuff?
even if you just wanna help out that'd be great! i guess i don't really have a way to pay you or anything, but i'll let you name the boat! that's fair, right? or if we get lots of help we could probably make more than one.

a skiff should be just enough to get around and i figure to hold 2 people it'd have to be like..... 8 feet long, and for 3 maybe at least 12. it's gonna take awhile though! even with my dad and all his stuff back home it was almost 3 whole weeks. i kinda figured if we got lots of hands that we could make up for not having any of the special gadgets. like i heard you can sand wood down by just using rocks inside a shirt! i already have lots of blisters


oh! and riku said it'd be cool to see if anybody knows how to uhhh what was it

make a lens? so we could use
a torch as a spotlight?

i think that part'll be a little further off


[local islander seeks diy enthusiasts and carpenters of dubious skills to build boat and possibly create tiny fleet. he also enjoys long walks on the beach and cakes with fruit inside, not to be confused with fruitcake.]

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[identifier]

[ he looks down to the light in the darkness. the figure is illuminated enough. dick can walk blindfolded. he keeps his lantern close to him for now. losing it means death. they come back - he isn't afraid of that. it hasn't made him reckless. he would disgrace his training if he acted without caution. and despite walking away from gotham (and from bruce), dick wants to be a good son to him. a good partner. that's all he ever wanted.

he keeps the lantern close for shape of wings below the flame. they could be a bird. but he thinks in death he can't escape what he had turned into.

the creature holding up his life's light is a bat. ]

Sora? [ dick starts briskly walking towards him. ]

It's me, Dick.

[dualikey]

[He hasn't spent the time in darkness that some of his friends have- adjusting to what it means to be surrounded always by not just an endless stretch of black, but by the hopelessness and despair that comes with it. But he hasn't had the kind of training that some of the other people have had too- practicing to be skilled fighters or- ninjas or something. The idea of a skillset that's honed by those experiences isn't beyond him because he's seen the results, people who've come through the other side. But that isn't the same as cultivating a mentality around caution or measuring one's actions.

It's a transparancy that Sora carries all over, with the same readiness that keeps his heart on his sleeve. If he has any second thoughts at all about jogging across a relatively isolated beach, in near perfect darkness, towards a stranger, it's hard to know it. His gaze goes from the silhouette first to the lantern, the only thing that's really distinct at all, until they're finally near enough that he can start to pick out the details in his face. Even then, the illuminated spectre is a presence all it's own: a bat.]

Hey! [The's a clip in it turning the word into one with two syllables- like hello.] Thanks for coming all the way out here.

[His own lantern remains tucked into the bend of his elbow, but it frees him up enough that Sora's able to rub at the back of his neck- somewhere between sheepish and self-conscious.] Sorry if you were busy doing something else. I didn't even ask first.

[identifier]

[ sora does approach a complete stranger with an open heart. dick feels he is a trustworthy man. even if he is not likeable. or nice. but in his opinion it's wise to trust him.

he wants to be trusted, too. ]

No problem. I wasn't busy. [ he keeps busy. but he also can put it aside. he tries to prioritize the same way.

beacon has been challenging. he's just a guy. ]

I've got supplies. There should be enough for all of you going.

[ there are enough and some. dick is always prepared. he has brought extra to help with homemade life vests too. ]