Accidental Video.

[onequarter]

[ the Forge switches on: it is on a small table, the feed partially obscured by the cloak-pin and handful of ivories that have obviously been dropped haphazardly onto the table with it. ]

Raki? Raki!

[ Clare appears in the frame. For those who last saw her after Riful's ministrations, the difference is acute: she is healthier and far more agile.

Comments

[silvereyedlion]

[breathes on what is this]

What did you say?

[onequarter]

As I never intended for those words to be public knowledge, I don't plan on repeating them.

[silvereyedlion]

Raki.

[It's cool, he doesn't really need to hear it a second time anyway.]

You keep interesting company.

[onequarter]

Interesting.

[silvereyedlion]

Oh. Do I have your attention now, Clare?

[onequarter]

[ you most certainly do. ]

How do you know Raki.

[silvereyedlion]

Through very unfortunate circumstances, I assure you.

[onequarter]

Tell me.

[silvereyedlion]

Or what? You'll send your friends after me?

If you must know, we have a mutual acquaintance. But I had more important things to worry about than some simple human.

[onequarter]

Was it in the North?

Was it . . . in Pieta?

[silvereyedlion]

Pieta?

[...]

You're searching for him, aren't you? You must be if you're desperate enough to give into superstition just for the chance to bring him here.

To think you were so close to him all that time and you didn't even realize it.

[onequarter]

My handler instructed me to search in Alphonse. I never thought it was anything more than a trap.

[silvereyedlion]

And you still went?

[Clare you are not very bright are you]

[onequarter]

I had to.