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[akingmuststand]

[The screen is dark for a moment, before the shroud - a hand - moves, flops aside. A white-clad shoulder shifts, a soft, sleepy mutter barely audible over the feed. The view is one from inside a croft, the sleeper just visible at the edge of the camera. He rolls onto his back, showing a mop of pale blond hair, but the angle is too awkward to see

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[video]

[breakinurknees]

[She doesn't want to fumble with typing, so, video it is.]

An information pamphlet would be nice.

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

That would be a decent start, wouldn't it? [He isn't totally at ease, keeping his guard up as he studies her for a moment before continuing.]

Another in the same situation?

[video]

[breakinurknees]

So it seems. They should at least have the decency to reveal themselves.

If that's really the case.

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

Decency and capture so seldom go hand-in-hand, one is lead to believe.

[Strange enough that someone else is here, it's stranger still that she's Asian - not because it matters to Schneizel particularly, but because it rules out his suspicion.]

We're both far from home, it appears.

[video]

[breakinurknees]

True enough. However, giving some form of communication would seem to be consideration. The facts contradict themselves and common sense.

[She nods] So it would seem. From where do you come?

[Similarly, it's strange to see someone dressed like Schneizel, though caucasians are common enough to be unsurprising.]

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

I'm a Britannian. [He doesn't elaborate. Given the delicacy of the situation, that doesn't seem prudent.]

How long have you been here for, miss?

Re: [video]

[breakinurknees]

[She's just going to assume that means regular old Britain...]

Perhaps an hour or two.

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

I see. [Strange, that they'd be here for around the same point.]

And you recognize nothing of this place?

[video]

[breakinurknees]

Of course not; we have no buildings like these...stone huts. I assume it's the same for you?

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

Entirely. The technology's rather out of place, too.

[video]

[breakinurknees]

Mm, but in the opposite way.

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

Opposite - [Curious though he is (surely, their technology isn't that lacking), he stops himself. Technology is hardly the point.]

I'd sooner know what I was being patient for, but there doesn't seem to be anyone eager to take credit.

[video]

[breakinurknees]

[It's not lacking, just not the same, nothing like video phones in 1960...]

No, generally a kidnapper would love to take the credit, either they're new to this, or that isn't it.

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

My thoughts exactly. The latter may be more worrisome, if only because it leaves us without an explanation. The ones I've heard are a little... [fucking ridiculous, for a start]

[video]

[breakinurknees]

[fucking ridiculous is right.]

Absurd? Yes, I know what you mean, some people enjoy making up stories, I suppose.

[video]

[inbrilliancy]

Absurd begins to cover it. [Smiles, wryly.]