This outfit displays quite a lot of metal studs set into [pause] possibly it is leather.  I am not sure.  It is an interesting effect.  I suppose that it is fortunate that, with so many others forced into outfits yet more extravagant, this draws little attention.

[Sigh.] But I must ask.  It has come with a dying and shortening of the hair that I am ( Read more... )

It would appear that my blade cannot keep any sort of edge now.  I suppose that I am fortunate in that it is still metal, but I am not so practiced in the use of bludgeoning instruments.

It also seems that my appearance has been altered, though I remain recognizable.

I much prefer my own hair to this.

[She looks like this, aka most representations of ( Read more... )

I am- [What.  What is this.]

[The pen looks normal. When she checks it on her fingertip, the ink is black. Okay. Let's try again, slowly.]

There was- [The writing just gets... doused in glitter. When she purses her lips and blows on the page, some of it flies off and makes her Guard-partner raise his eyebrows. Quite a lot stays.]

[...okay ( Read more... )

If four people have been abducted by the lift and are reporting it at present, how is it that others are using it to come and go?

[Immediately after writing it, this sentence is struck out thoroughly; she just realized that this might be the dangerous kind of question.]

The petals of these flowers - I must inquire, are they cherry or sakura?  Is ( Read more... )

If you are in a public building and you find a large cybernetic fish repeatedly slamming its body into the door with a sound that can only be described as "gashunk", it means that I am in this building, and it has followed me.  Do not allow it inside.  Although it cannot cause much if any harm, it takes up a significant percent of the available ( Read more... )

[The first sentence is very slowly written, as if the writer is reluctant.  The letters are a bit shaky, made by someone who’s unfamiliar with this setup.  Letters are compact and squarish - the “tail” of p, for example, is very short.]

I have chosen to call myself Sylvar.

I have been wondering.

Solitude on this world does not seem to be without ( Read more... )