On the Shore [Voice: Japanese/Text]

[latteheart]

[Alpha turns on the communicator absentmindedly, not paying much attention to it. There's some general rustling and clattering noises; she's tidying up the apartment. After a minute she picks up the device.] Ah, I meant to ask...Anemone? You mentioned having us move to the Horton apartments, didn't you? Um, is there still space available? I've been

Comments

[hakai_aniki]

...Cube's frequency isn't working?

[He's surprised into checking it, and sure enough, dead channel is dead.]

He left in a hurry yesterday ... It sounded like something urgent.

[latteheart]

If...if his frequency is...

It means he's...

[hakai_aniki]

... The scientists removed him.

He's a strange choice for that. Is that the only reason a frequency goes dead?

[latteheart]

...I don't know. It never has before. Why else would it?

[hakai_aniki]

Hmph. I never noticed that... when did you see him last?

Never mind. I'm heading out for a few minutes.

[He's going to poke around for Cube in various spots. For all he knows, the little demon's communicator might be broken.]

[latteheart]

I don't know...I never saw him leave, he's just...

You...okay.

[You can try. But she's not going to hope.]

[hakai_aniki]

I saw him leave. Hm. I wonder what he was looking at on the network, at that time.

[And he's distractedly off to look for Cube.]