[The PORTAL camera turns on to show a very serious looking little girl staring at it intently. She's quiet for a long moment, but when she's finally satisfied that yes, it is filming, she starts her message.]It is very nice to see a city. To see the streets and the people, and the sea. But it is very noisy, all the thoughts and the threads. It ( Read more... )

[Asha is sat in a room that seems completely bare and empty of any signs of someone living there - much like when people arrive. The only difference is that the mirror is dark, too. She sits on the end of the bed, looking a little small in such a bare space.]If someone's room is empty, that means they've gone home, right ( Read more... )

[The feed starts out showing a crystal on the ground, evidently a street in the city. The crystal's glittering strangely, the light bright in the night air, before Asha turns the PORTAL to talk to it herself.]

I found this. The fear's strongest around it, but... it feels like a web. [She crouches down and picks the crystal up, showing it to the ( Read more... )

[Asha seems much less distracted this time as she starts the recording, actually paying attention to the PORTAL from the start. She's in a different room, white-painted timber cladding on the wall behind her, the only light source small and obviously over the other side of the room, leaving long shadows behind her.]

I found the mountains, they are ( Read more... )

[Asha's curled up at the head of Bowen's bed, her PORTAL resting on her knees, and she stares off out the window for a long moment before she starts talking.]

These places, the ones that are ours, that we bring with us... [She trails off, could almost look like she's gotten distracted and forgotten she's using the PORTAL, except for the very ( Read more... )