[Just about noon-- be grateful it's not at a more inconvenient time, citizens-- a phone call comes through.

Dr. Maturin had set his phone on a desk and that desk... Well. Other things had been moved. One being a book, which is likely the culprit in waking the device and broadcasting the call.

All that can be heard is a lone cello playing.]

[The feed snaps on not a few hours after the ultimatum is delivered concerning the 'one' vs 'five' argument. However, half the lens is in darkness while the other half is fogged up too much to tell what's going on.
Until whatever it is holding the device barks. And it's loud.]

Damn it, Dog. Stop chewing on that! [A bit of a struggle later, a certain ( Read more... )

Perhaps before we listen to this man over the phone, more information should be compiled on him ( Read more... )

[She's sitting on the floor inside a house, her clothes sprayed with blood. Her sword is in no better shape. But, with one silver eye exposed, she picks it up, and starts cleaning it in earnest.]

He wants blood? Death? He want that?

I'll give it. I'll kill him.

I'll break it. For him.

H-how... how real is that man's threat? That... that if...

If someone isn't killed, he'll kill five?

[The voice you hear is one you've probably heard before, but never so angry.]

Who destroyed my home?!

[When the call begins, the Quorra that snaps into view on the screen looks...different, somehow. Less pale, her hair lighter and a little mussed as if she's been standing in the wind. She's not wearing her glowing suit, and her eyes are slightly red, too - she's been crying. And in the background, the faint rumbling of an engine; not the smooth ( Read more... )

Um, Clare? What is this thing in the kitchen? It doesn't look like a yoma, but...

I can't say I like it, whatever it is. It'd be really nice if I had my sword right now.

Where the fuck is Ema Skye.

[The video flickers to life revealing the interior of an vintage, well kept car. The phone is shifted, the video then settling on a handsome young looking man. His normally neat hair is disheveled and his typical shades had fallen off to revealed pain soaked yellow snake eyes instead of those of a normal human ( Read more... )