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[Oh hay Mandalus. The nine-year-old on your screen right now? May or may not be familiar. Bone white skin and harsh tattoos, the robe that was already too big on her even before she shrank....but her wide eyes are white, and openly anxious. She doesn't seem to notice the video is actually working- where's the holoimage? She's never used a holocom

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[VIDEO]

[WHAT UP AGENT BRO. That brief jerking movement on the feed? It's not her jumping at his voice, really. It does take her a few moments to realize that it's coming from the little device in her hand, though, and she immediately fumbles with it, brings it back up to see.]

[Then she has to look around again, trying to locate whatever "lord" he's speaking to (because that would just be the icing on the cake, getting caught away from her camp by a Sith), but....there's no one. Her tone when she finally speaks up is as respectful as she can make it, but she can't mask her unease.]

....sir?

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[....why does he have to ask that. She freezes, just briefly, and looks around again.]

I don't.... [Kass City, maybe? She's never been there before, but it....has to be, right? Even though the structure and the atmosphere all feel so wrong. She shakes her head after a moment, keeping it bowed and her eyes down and oh Emperor how does she even answer this. She's going to be in so much trouble no matter what she says.]

I don't know. I'm....I got lost. [She just has to try and stay calm. It's not working as well as she'd like it to.] I didn't mean to leave the temple. I didn't.

[sheistheswarm]

voice;

Hey. Are you okay? [ What is going on here. ]

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video;

[akscn and there's the device talking at her again. But it doesn't even sound Imperial this time, and that just sets off every alarm bell as she fumbles with the phone and squints at the....why is there no image on this one?]

[She almost doesn't answer, but after a hesitant moment:] I'm fine.

[sheistheswarm]

[ If only she could see the skeptical look in her face. ]

You don't sound fine, kid. What's going on?

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[She can hear it in her voice, though, and that's probably a bad enough sign.]

I got lost. [It's....not entirely a lie.] I wasn't supposed to leave the camp, I don't know where it is.

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[Video]

He has to be! [For as many people chiming in on this thing as there are- But no, calm, she can't make a scene, she can do this.]

Are any other camp overseers? [Stars above, and as much as she doesn't want to meet anyone in the next category....] City security....?

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[ action! if that's okay ]

[Oh! He recognizes that face, but everything is younger than he remembers and well - that's concerning. Clearing his throat, he calls out to her.] Excuse me, miss?

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[perfectly okay! <3]

[Oh geez. That's not the device and most definitely not that captain, and for a second she freezes, looks over with wide eyes. But he doesn't look like any of the overseers, either....]

Sir....?

[selfantagonized]

[He gets close, holding up his hands to show he doesn't mean any harm.]

Are you alright? You look lost.

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[....well, if that gets a funny little look out of her? He definitely isn't any sort of security, then. It doesn't put her completely at ease, but it's a start.]

....I need to get back to the camp. [No one has been able to help so far, but it has to be worth one more shot.]