The streets are not safe.

[While this seems pretty obvious, she thinks it bears stating given some of the crazies who live here.]Anyone not prepared to fight should be indoors, in a safe place. These Elves are fast and dangerous and the lizard-monsters are deadly and indiscriminate, and they both mean to kill anyone they see. Basements are all ( Read more... )

( when there's nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire )

[The video turns on purposefully and shows a blonde woman with large brown eyes sitting at a desk. She has the air of a person who doesn’t do this much - make “public appearances” in the formal sense, that is, since she is perfectly familiar with the Forge itself - but she also looks as if there isn’t much that intimidates her. Her hair is up in a ( Read more... )

There seem to have been a lot of disappearances lately.

[This statement is obvious enough, given all the "Missing" posters that have been seen around lately.]

Has anyone else noticed a feeling of being watched? I dismissed it at first, but in the last day or so it's felt... worse. More focused.

[And if nothing else she is very good at sensing ( Read more... )

Again?

[Huge brown eyes fill the screen. The little girl is examining the Forge much too closely, although she does know this time that the video is on. It's rather dark around her, but the Forge casts enough light to show some clothing hanging behind her and Hayate sitting beside her. She seems to have taken the dog and hidden herself away in the ( Read more... )

[The Forge turns on and the video only shows the blonde woman from her shoulders upward. It does, however, pick up some soft clicking sounds from just beneath the frame. Only those people who are very familiar with firearms might be able to recognize the sounds of a Browning Hi-power semi-automatic handgun being disassembled to be cleaned ( Read more... )

[There is something hollow and raw about her voice. It could have something to do with the fact that she spent the night on the floor of Roy Mustang’s apartment. Not sleeping, unwilling to get up. It could be the weight of this unfathomable loss, hollowing her out since she saw the body yesterday ( Read more... )

[Riza doesn't normally transmit videos, but this one is deliberate. That is obvious from the first moments. It has a purpose which cannot be conveyed through voice or text ( Read more... )

( cut for length and death and so on )

[At first there is only a ragged breath, as of a person attempting to gather up all the reserves of strength in her body. And then silence for another moment. This is more difficult that she thought.]

I have a Forge, so I must be in Anatole. Is that right?

[Her voice is surprisingly steady. A seemingly simple question, though to her it is really ( Read more... )