61 [Accidental Video]
[The feed is dark, at first -- there is only the sound of the constant pounding rain against the walls of wherever Rei is -- until her face is illuminated by the flickering of candlelight. She exhales slowly in relief as she looks around the room.
Those that have been inside the Temple of Heaven may recognize it as the area that Rei has converted into her fire-reading room. Rain is pounding relentlessly against the window as she sets the candle on top of her altar, scowling almost petulantly at the window.]
Of all of the events... they have to pick one where I can't do anything.
[She crosses to the window to look outside -- the PCD shows the yard of the Temple of Heaven, which is now a swimming pool. Her fingers tighten slightly around the device and Rei exhales slowly once more -- she's nervous. Jumpy, even.
But Rei doesn't exactly have time to dwell upon the fact that Adstringendum is going to become a world-class YMCA -- because the storm suddenly swells and lightning cracks. Rei instinctively moves away from the window, wide-eyed at the display --
Before a tree branch crashes directly through the window.
The yelp is undignified, but totally necessary, as Rei abruptly shoots to her right, to miss getting hit in the face with branch, but the constant rain now has no barrier in between the outside world and her homemade shrine.
She stares for a long moment before she grinds her teeth together into a vicious:]
Damn it!
[And the PCD hits the altar as Rei tosses it aside to tug the branch through the window. The feed cuts off after that.]
Those that have been inside the Temple of Heaven may recognize it as the area that Rei has converted into her fire-reading room. Rain is pounding relentlessly against the window as she sets the candle on top of her altar, scowling almost petulantly at the window.]
Of all of the events... they have to pick one where I can't do anything.
[She crosses to the window to look outside -- the PCD shows the yard of the Temple of Heaven, which is now a swimming pool. Her fingers tighten slightly around the device and Rei exhales slowly once more -- she's nervous. Jumpy, even.
But Rei doesn't exactly have time to dwell upon the fact that Adstringendum is going to become a world-class YMCA -- because the storm suddenly swells and lightning cracks. Rei instinctively moves away from the window, wide-eyed at the display --
Before a tree branch crashes directly through the window.
The yelp is undignified, but totally necessary, as Rei abruptly shoots to her right, to miss getting hit in the face with branch, but the constant rain now has no barrier in between the outside world and her homemade shrine.
She stares for a long moment before she grinds her teeth together into a vicious:]
Damn it!
[And the PCD hits the altar as Rei tosses it aside to tug the branch through the window. The feed cuts off after that.]