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This is a lake near the edge of January town.

Vanessa walked towards the lake. She put her foot of the water, feeling the cold water. The cold splashing water. But she couldn't hear the splashing. Sometimes she'd come to places like his to think of sound. What would sound resemble? How is her own voice.

Lorrie walked to the lake. She mostly wanted to think about Leo, and how a lot of people were gone. That included Leo's many siblings. Lorrie had never talked to them much. But they were all gone, having moved out of the remaining towns before the Disappearance.

((Maybe Lorrie has matured now that she's older...))

Sturned her head around, to see a young adult walking towards the lake. Vanessa smiled and waved at her. Hopefully the girl wouldn't be type to believe that she was a liar of being deaf, or insult her. Which ever, Vanessa didn't care.

((I'm trying to figure out how much, though...))

Lorrie noticed a girl waving at her. "Hey!" she smiled. She didn't want to be unkind, so she waved back a little before continuing towards the lake. She didn't realize that Vanessa was deaf.

((Oops, I was going to add NOT at the end of my post but forgot...))

Maybe it was a bit too soon, but Vanessa decided to tell Lorrie about herself before the girl started talking. She walked up to her, wiping her wet hand on her jeans. She could read a few words by lips, so she knew what Lorrie had said. "Hi!" she said.

Lorrie smiled at Vanessa again. This girl seemed pretty eager to talk. Normally Lorrie would tell the young girl off for being a stalker, but she was feeling sadder than usual about Leo today. She decided she may as well be nice to the girl. "I'm Lorrie Greshire. You?" she asked Vanessa.

"Um, sorry," Vanessa said, stopping Lorrie. "But I'm deaf. I can talk, but I don't know what it sounds like. Would you mind writing down, instead of talking?" she asked, holding up notepad and a pencil.

"Um..." Lorrie raised an eyebrow, looking down at the paper. "Ohh-kay?" She took the notepad and pencil very slowly and wrote: I'm Lorrie Greshire. You? Lorrie wasn't used to this kind of thing.

"Oh, sorry. I'm Vanessa Robertson," Vanessa said. She hoped that Lorrie wouldn't think she was a liar.

So you always bring a pencil and paper around everywhere? Sounds tiring, Lorrie wrote. She couldn't imagine having to always do that. Must suck.

"You get used to it," Vanessa shrugged. "But I'd rather be deaf than mute, I like friends, chatting, stuff like that. Even when it's tiring when people don't understand your issue. Or they refuse to write because they don't feel like it."

((Now I'm remembering Autumn Rayn, Isa's sister! She's mute!))
Or if they don't have hands. That would be a problem. Or they have some kind of disorder that makes it hard for them to write. I've heard of that. Lorrie wrote. At least her hand wasn't tired yet.

((I know it's sad for the people that really do have those things, but it's interesting to rp with them.))

"Like Stephen Hawking," Vanessa nodded after reading the message. "Well I speak sign language. It's way easier than talking for me. But if you were deaf and had no hands to sign, that would be a problem."

((Yeah.))
Lorrie nodded. Pretty much no communication at all, she wrote. So, what are you doing here? Just chilling? Lorrie had only come hear to chill. She wasn't even sure what to talk (write?) about with Vanessa anymore.

"Imagine you wear deaf, blind, mute and lost your sense of touch and taste. Now that would be a problem, you'd have to die. And, well, you couldn't feel your deaf, or feel a pencil to tell someone that you're dying, or something," Vanessa laughed. "Yeah, I guess. Sometimes I just come here for hours to think. You?"

Lorrie shrugged. Just hangin. Need some time off from the Disappearance drama. she wrote, holding the board up so Vanessa could see it. She wasn't sure how Vanessa was influenced by the Disappearance.

"Oh, yes," Vanessa nodded, after reading. "But I don't want to get too into that - I want to talk about something other than that. It won't do good to think of it my whole life, and that's all people seem to say these days," she said.

I guess so, I mean, it's a pretty big thing. Lorrie wrote. Have you heard anything from the leaders lately? I haven't. Lorrie didn't exactly trust the leaders.

"Not really," Vanessa said. She didn't even know half of their names, never mind what they were discussing. "I don't even know when the last meeting was. I have no one to tell me, and if I ever see them, I can't hear them."

Lorrie nodded. I wonder if they even care. But nevermind about them, how's life going? I live on my own now. Lorrie didn't even have a job.

"Well I have about ten siblings. Adoptive, though. Most have special needs, like me. But lots of disappeared," Vanessa said.