002 [Video]

[mongreldog]

[The camera blinks on as a child wearing a red Yukata, and has an identical mullethawk  haircut as Daken hits a keys.  He's staring hard at the keyboard and pressing random keys, not liking the sound that comes out.  He presses them even harder.]

I've never heard a typewriter make noises like this before....

[He looks up and notices the webcam.]

What

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[hat_and_dagger]

[Another kid!]

'ey, you okay, kid? An' it is a kinda camera.
What ya lookin' at is a computa'. It's somethin' ya can use ta talk ta udda' people here.

[mongreldog]

[His eyes dart around the room wildly.]

Who said that?!

[hat_and_dagger]

Uuuh, me?

I'm... in da computa' thing. Not really, but dat's how ya hear me.

I don' think we've met before. I'm Firo Prochainezo, who're you?

[mongreldog]

[He stops looking around when he sees something move on the screen. He stares hard at it, trying to grasp how it works.]

I'm Asano Akihiro, box.

[hat_and_dagger]

Box?! I ain't a box I'm a person!

Ah, but it's nice ta meet'cha, Asano. Need any help wid anythin'? Don' want'cha gettin' in trouble.

[mongreldog]

[He stares harder at the screen, his face getting scrunched up.]

Are you trapped in the box?

I don't think you can help me in that box. I'm okay, I'm waiting for my father.

[hat_and_dagger]

Uhh, no. I'm actually somewhere else, lookin' at anotha' box like da one you got. Ya see dat camera thing? I got onna dose too, an' dat's how ya see me. Da one you have lets me see you.

An'... I'm sorry, kid, but ya fadda' probably isn't here.

[mongreldog]

I thought cameras took pictures not controlled strange boxes....

What do you mean my father isn't here? Is he coming back?

[hat_and_dagger]

Dat's what I thought too, apparently dese one's are special. Dey don' really control da boxes. You do dat, see all da buttons? Ya use dose.

...He didn't leave, you did.

[mongreldog]

......The typewriter and the camera are connected by this box?

[Well if that isn't the stupidest thing ever... Why would anyone do that?]

I didn't go anywhere.

[hat_and_dagger]

Kinda... I don' really get it eitha'. Dey don' have dis back home.

Okay, maybe ya didn' mean ta, but you were taken here. By da Fates.

[mongreldog]

No, they don't.

Did I do something wrong?

[hat_and_dagger]

[Considers teasing the kid, but decides with his nervous temperment it wouldn't be a good idea.] No, you didn't. It ain't ya fault at all. Da Fates probably took ya becuase ya saw what messed up da timeline- I don' think da problem'd be a nice kid like you.

[mongreldog]

But I haven't seen anything.

[hat_and_dagger]

Dey say dat da clues are all here... I haven't found anythin' yet eitha'.

[mongreldog]

Is it like a scavenger hunt?