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eachdraidh2014-08-01 11:49 pm
vrykolakas) wrote in eachdraidh2014-08-01 11:49 pm
i. video. both courts. the night of the feast.
[Two hours after nightfall.
Click. The video’s on but the picture’s fuzzy black. Muffled:]
—the—hell's piss and fuck—is that—?
[Nice. The picture changes, but only to lighten to grey and then offer tumbling fragments of senseless colour. The locket has been plucked from wherever it lay; a pocket, or face-down somewhere. The transmission ends.
Three minutes later, the video returns, this time with actual footage. The camera lens captures tumbling dark hair and a the lower half of a pale, fine-boned face; a young man, apparently, but when he speaks his voice is as creaky as a dying man’s whisper.]
—see, but can it catch my image?
[Grin. Apparently that’s a joke. He moves the locket so that his whole face comes into view. With pleasure:]
Yes. Would you look at that. The myth-peddlers embarrass themselves again.
My good will to... [A long, thoughtful sigh. Hiss? He visibly gives up on niceties.] Fuck it. Tell me, what is there to do in Mair besides avoid or perpetrate mugging?
Click. The video’s on but the picture’s fuzzy black. Muffled:]
—the—hell's piss and fuck—is that—?
[Nice. The picture changes, but only to lighten to grey and then offer tumbling fragments of senseless colour. The locket has been plucked from wherever it lay; a pocket, or face-down somewhere. The transmission ends.
Three minutes later, the video returns, this time with actual footage. The camera lens captures tumbling dark hair and a the lower half of a pale, fine-boned face; a young man, apparently, but when he speaks his voice is as creaky as a dying man’s whisper.]
—see, but can it catch my image?
[Grin. Apparently that’s a joke. He moves the locket so that his whole face comes into view. With pleasure:]
Yes. Would you look at that. The myth-peddlers embarrass themselves again.
My good will to... [A long, thoughtful sigh. Hiss? He visibly gives up on niceties.] Fuck it. Tell me, what is there to do in Mair besides avoid or perpetrate mugging?
video.
video.
I gather there were recent upheavals.
["Gather"; he is in Mair and it's been visibly ransacked.]
video.
video.
People going home.
How, and why.
video.
I could not tell you. It appears to be random chance rather than anything done on purpose.
video.
[Tiredly, suddenly:]
Once the divisions between possible worlds start to break, purpose doesn't fucking come into it.
video.
[ He shakes his head, leaning back. ]
No, we were brought here with purpose, that I now for certain. But our return home? That seems to be coincidence. I wish I knew better so that I cold bring my allies back to my side.
video.
video.
video.
In what sense?
video.
video.
You mean literally expired, don't you?
video.
video.
video.
video.
So here you've been given a new lease of life. I'm glad for you.
video.