First Cut

[alabaster_blood]

[Anyone listening to their journal right now is in for an unpleasant sensation. It sounds like someone set off some sort of explosion...that sounds suspiciously like a bolt of lightning hitting the floor of the lobby. This sound is followed by another, slightly more organic, but only slightly. It sounds like someone hitting the floor with a dull

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written;

[haruno]

[ All those sounds -- ]

Hey, is someone injured over there?

[ ... Where-ever there was. Sakura's outside the castle at the moment, and journals aren't the most convenient for implicating location. ]

dictated

[alabaster_blood]

[The voice that comes over the journal will sound static-y, like it's being transmitted through a broken radio. Raiden "coughs" a few times, and some of his white blood will spill onto the journal.]

Who's...there?

written --> dictated;

[haruno]

My name is Haruno Sakura. I'm a medic here at Paradisa -- I'm sorry, do you have any idea where you are right now?

[ She'd ask who, too, but that's secondary to things like ARE YOU INJURED and WHERE ARE YOU (if not to ARE YOU LIABLE TO ATTACK ASSISTANCE, but alas). ]

dictated

[alabaster_blood]

[A jumble of information tumbles through Raiden's mind, but little of it actually registers. He turns over and clasps his sword, which had fallen under him with his teeth.]

It looks like...a hotel lobby.

You...won't be able to help me.

via radio frequency? :3

[end_0f_line]

[Oh now that is interesting. Not often that he catches the sound of anyone else in this place using radio transmissions.

He remembers the voice well enough, however, and takes it as an opportunity to catch up with Axel once again.]

Patriots?

forevers!

[alabaster_blood]

[Now finally in the clinic, Raiden has been able to relax...as much as an armless cyborg can relax. When his internal codec beeps, he's not quite so hesitant about answering it.]

...A shadow government. The real power behind the United States.

[end_0f_line]

[United States. He knows the name, and-- in a way-- what it means. It was where he was meant to be, after all, before Paradisa tore him from his own timestream to set him here.

But a shadow government? Now that is news to him.]

Never heard of them before. Then again, this place has a habit of twisting time around. It's possible they're already dead in the United States I'm familiar with.

[alabaster_blood]

[Considering The Patriot's habit of manipulating information, Raiden isn't surprised that whoever this is doesn't know them.]

I'm not surprised. The Patriots have a fascination with information, and manipulating it. Where I come from, they've made it so that when someone says "The Patriots"...what they hear is "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo". They're an AI network that has control over most everything.