IC: VOICEMAIL

[showchoirstar]

Hello, Adstringendum! This is Rachel Berry and I'm unable to come to the phone right now due to some pressing matters that I must get resolved or else. If you would like to get a hold of me for any reason whatsoever -- business or otherwise --, please leave a message after the beep!

... Does this thing beep?

Oh, well -- beep!

ooc: Need to get in

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[Video]

[wingsandwill]

[Here Rachel, have a disheveled and bloody angel on your feed, though he looks more concerned and tired than actually hurt.]

Rachel, Ed told me you were at one of the safehouses. I wanted to be certain.

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

[She is sitting on a cot, with her arms around her dog, to keep her in one place, a bag next to her full of things that absolutely cannot be lost. But she looks up, at her PCD going off, and she promptly looks terrified.]

You're hurt -- !

[FACE.]

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

Not seriously.

Are you alright?

[He's glad to see her, and she even has her dog with her.]

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

Evita burned her nose.

[And she adjusts the camera to show her dog, who indeed has a shiny wound on the tip of her black wet nose, but the dog seems to be toughing it out nicely, and Rachel tightens her hold on the dog.]

Where are you? What's happening? No one has told me anything and -- is this an event?

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

[He glances at the dog in the feed, but she seems okay, and so he returns his attention to Rachel's questions.]

I am at one of the safehouses, for the moment. Jo and I built it; it is likely one of the best protected here.

[The unspoken offer there is probably clear enough; if she wants to move, he'll bring her there.]

No, it is not an event. One of the Animus has attacked the city.

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

[She reads that offer loud and clear, and while she looks tempted, she ultimately shakes her head.]

Edward and Alphonse and Negi think I am here -- I would not want to leave and worry them. It's fine -- I'm okay where I am. It's safe.

[But at the next piece of news, her eyes widen slightly. Evita whines slightly -- Rachel is hugging her around the neck a little too tightly.]

Why? What did we do?

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

[He nods slightly; he knows none of the three would have put Rachel somewhere that isn't safe.]

A few individuals made a foolish mistake. One of the Animus used it as an opportunity to lash out at us.

[There's a pause for a moment.]

There are also three other new powerful creatures that have arrived, and they have their own smaller creatures with them.

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

So that's what the little monsters are...

[Rachel presses her mouth against the dog's temple for a moment, in thought, before she continues, quiet.]

How are they going to be stopped? What about the people who did this, have they been caught yet?

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

You have seen them?

[He shakes his head, frowning slightly at her question.]

I'm going to assist in efforts to destroy them, but I'm not certain of what will be done about the Animus. The individuals who were involved made a mistake, Rachel; this was not intentional.

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

Evita ate one.

[She has a very good dog. 8| But she pauses, after her simple statement, her brow furrowing.]

How are you going to defeat them -- and what mistake, the world is falling apart, that is far more than spilling a glass of proverbial milk, Castiel, they should be punished.

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

Oh.

[Definitely a good dog. He draws his sword, holding it up to the camera.]

You know of our swords. They are capable of killing nearly anything in my world; though they may or may not be so powerful here, they are likely to be at least somewhat effective.

[The issue is getting close, and making sure whatever these things now are don't kill him first. He's not about to think that just because he's an angel again that he's invulnerable.

At her words, he silent, expression growing more serious.]

There are times when what is believed will be to the benefit of all leads to the opposite, even when undertaken with the best of intentions.

[He knows this well.]

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

[Rachel is quiet for a moment or two, as she listens, before she shifts to pull Raphael's sword out of her coat. She hasn't let it leave her side since she got it. -- why is the angel taking so long to come back, anyway? And she almost asks, but she knows it isn't the time.

She sets it in her lap, though, to consider his next point.]

I wrote a song about that feeling.

[Rachel swings her legs lightly, her toes just scuffing the surface of the ground, with a frown.]

It's really hard to get something right when you don't want to fail.

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

Then you understand that was is occurring being because of them is enough of a punishment.

[He knows Rei is blaming herself already, and Nat likely will be as well.]

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

I do.

[After a moment or two of thought -- and Rachel glances up towards the camera before refocusing her attention on the sword.]

Though I trust you will prevent the more unsavory sort of person from harming the people behind this when they undoubtedly overreact.

[It doesn't take a clever girl like Rachel to realize that it must be one of Castiel's friends for him to say such a thing.]

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

[Indeed, had it been someone else Castiel would've likely already taken action on them himself.]

I will... 'Run interference', if that is the term.

[For Rei, anyway. Nat's screwed.]

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

[A tiny smile before she nods slightly, to let him know he got the term right, before she sighs to herself, chin on top of her dog's head.]

I will be certain to send your friend something that will cheer her up later.

[:3]