[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... )

[Adam turns the video on and he's back in his room, sitting on his bed, looking off into space with a hazy look in his eyes.]

So, it's my birthday...

[Silence.]

First one where I can be with most of my family for it...

So, why do I feel like I don't want anything to do with them today.

Seems like it's all over now so people if you see this, check in. I know some people will have died but we know they'll come back but having a list we put together ourselves might help. And there might be people out in parts of the city who are still injured or who holed up to wait this out that might not be able to get in contact ( Read more... )

[The feed flickers on to show Musetta, sitting in the corner of her Place of Solace. Curled up against the wall, she stares off. If you look closely, you’ll see that her makeup is smudged, bags are under her eyes and she’s shivering slightly. Every moment or so there’s a slight shift in the air, a small breeze moving the strands of her hair from ( Read more... )

[ The screen flickers and flashes, steadying as a video of a kitchen appears. Two cakes - one strawberry, one chocolate - are laid out on the kitchen table, as two young girls hover over the kitchen counter (on step stools!), busily working on another frosted delicacy. One of the girls is none other than Sakura, dressed in a puffy blue dress and ( Read more... )

It's quaint, isn't it? But I do believe it will make for wonderful parties...

[She moves the video around to show the little apartment she found... Her place of solace, to be exact.]

I lived here for but a fortnight, but it is a sight for sore eyes, to be sure....

[When Vanille's PORTAL turns on, it does so without her meaning to. The silly thing has fallen out of her little skirt pouch and is broadcasting a lot of noise without her knowledge. In fact, the PORTAL almost gets an up the skirt shot but then she's moving and there are a lot of possibly very misleading noises.]

Take that!

[There's the whistle of ( Read more... )

Hearing new voices used to bother me. They don't anymore. Or at least not as much.

So...if you are a new voice, I guess this is me greeting you. And I'm sorry for the voices you're going to miss while you're here. And I understand if there's one that you won't miss. If you'd like to tell me about either, I'll listen.

[Pause]

If my voice isn't ( Read more... )

[ Blue, bright and shining in the daytime sun, the ocean seems to stretch on forever. A flock of birds drift lazily over rows of rooftops as if having no destination in mind. But then, the picturesque scene disappears with a jerk as two large green eyes fill the screen. The screen jerks yet again before the Portal is finally set steady on the ( Read more... )

[It's early in the morning when Ace gets back to the beach from a few days at sea, smiling, mask on, hat around his neck as he bustles around.  He's been working for a while to sort out all of the things he's found on his trip out to sea.

The PORTAL pans over them, all the pretty things he has brought back with him this time.

There are many live fish ( Read more... )