The video blinks on to a view that most certainly does not belong to Anatole - a hazy, sun-warmed meadow bright with the clashing colours and mingled scents of a thousand flowers, all nodding languidly under a cloudless sky. In the near distance there's the soft sound of bubbling water - though its source is not apparent from your angle of view.

On ( Read more... )

[It's a closeup of Lust's mouth. She's half turned, and when she turns back there's a ragged breath followed by a horrible off-forge gurgle. A broken little noise escapes her lips before she speaks. Her voice is frantic, desperate and frightened.]

Please.

[A fingertip curls around the edge of the screen, pressing and red. As she shifts the light ( Read more... )

[The forge hisses on. It's silent for a few seconds and then...]

Hello.

[A brief pause.]

Um. Has anyone seen Dawn?

I-It's not unusual for her to... be gone a while, but she's left some weird messages, and she never came home last night.

I-I'm not worried, it's just... I can't get a hold of her. She usually at least replies to my messages. ( Read more... )

( [Video: Private to Kuchiki-taichou )

The sun has returned.

The 'Sun' has not.

[He places an odd emphasis on 'sun,' and there's another period of silence. The camera is aimed at the window, at the sky outside.]

Without the Sun, [the emphasis again] there should be no Moon.

[...]

I wonder.

[MORE SILENCE.]

What does darkness mean to you?

Okay, so. Uh, so since this medic listing idea seems to have some support, I thought I'd better get started ( Read more... )

( It's also a captain's duty to have faith and wait. )

[The Forge clicks on - sound only at first. There's the distinct sound of fumbling at the keys and a soft, muttered curse before it suddenly switches to video. Someone is only half-familiar with the wonders of modern communications technology and most of what he does know was gleaned over too much sake and from too pretty a girl in too few ( Read more... )

[...all you see is ceiling. Hm.]

I was thinking... I wish Arthur were still here. I miss him so much, and... he always made me smile. ...and he always made me take breaks, too. I could probably use one, now. [She laughs, humorlessly and quietly. The camera shakes a little, but... still nothing but ceiling.]...today I went out for a walk. Not ( Read more... )

[The camera cuts in on a face, features sharpened by the heavy contrast of light and dark.]

Haruno Sakura is dead.

[It is Naruto’s face and Naruto’s eyes to be true, but in those silent seconds the shadows on those cheekbones and around those eyes make him look older and leaner. Like someone else. Despite the oranges and golds in what ( Read more... )