5 // voice

[atrumcanis]

[A few beats of near silence--muffled traffic noises, mostly. It might seem like this was an accidental recording, that the NV just turned on in a pocket--but eventually, after some deliberation as to whether or not this is even worth asking--]They haul people off all the time. I know that--that's not what I'm interested in. What I'm interested in

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[voice]

[controllingluck]

[After trying playing over the voice messages and hearing it was Remus missing she gasped. It's happening again. You get to know someone and they disappear. Just like before.]

Oh, oh no... Sirius-san! Is there anything I can do to help you look for him?

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

[a bit of a delay in the reply here to try and calm down a bit. you're too sweet for even Sirius to be cruel to, miss.]

Don't worry about it. I'm going to work it out, and take care of it. So not worrying would be about the most useful, on your part.

[voice]

[controllingluck]

[D'awww, she would understand if he were cruel. but still...]

I... I can do more then just... sit back and not worry. I can help look too. Or... has anyone looked into raids? If there have been any lately? O-or the school... He was going to school. [Baw, she refuses to sniffle, but she does feel it building up]

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

No. That's all; just do the the not worrying bit, that's fine. You can look around, if you'd like, but--it's not likely he'll be found easily. I've been looking.

We were at school together. He doesn't get involved in things that'd lead to raids, he just--he's just gone, that's all.

[voice]

[controllingluck]

I... [Hnn... frustrated sound, but... nods, even if it can't be seen. She'll look around for info still.] Okay. [It's happening again. Make friends? Lose em.] Okay... I'll... try not to worry. He's resourceful, so are you.

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

[slightly more cheerful--forced, but whatever--] You have no idea. We've powers you've never even imagined at our disposal. So there's no sense in thinking about it, right? If you find anything, of course, I'll gladly take your information--but it'll be sorted out in the end. No fear.

[voice]

[controllingluck]

Yes. If... I find out anything, you'll be the first to know. [A sigh] So... are you... going to be alright?

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

Don't do anything stupid to find it out, all right? [and a laugh, now, slightly strained.] Yeah. Soon as I find who did this, and take care of it--I'll be fine. No worries.

[voice]

[controllingluck]

I... have ways to find some information with out placing myself into trouble. [A pause. What if it's like... some of the others. Just disappears? Will he be fine then?] And if you don't find out who is responsible?

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

Yeah? What sort of ways are those, secret ways? [on his end, Sirius shoves his hand through his hair, tense, Merlin, is he tense and irritated and everything else, and he doesn't even want to consider that question, but--] I will. I'll find out, one way or another.

[voice]

[controllingluck]

A... a bit secret, yeah. [Understandable, not wanting to consider it. There's a lot of people missing though...] Some people... say that the Core sends people home. They sometimes come back too. I don't think anyone knows who's responsible for it though, but... but I'd love to know who keeps taking... ah, taking my friends away. It happens... too much.

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

[a bit more harshly, now:] That doesn't make sense. It can't--they don't just disappear. They do, I mean, yeah, but there's a reason for it. There's always a reason. People say that, but they don't know that it's true or not, do they--it's just something that they say.

[voice]

[controllingluck]

[A bit more... sternly. Faster spoken] I want to know the reason for it too. I've... been in two places like this now. I've... lost a lot of people. Friends from home or, or people I just... let myself get to know. I'm tired of it happening and don't want to be scared of losing people again. Y-your right. There has to be a reason. I want to know too. I want to know who or what or why it's happening also. It's something people say to make themselves feel better but.... it's never made me feel better at all. Ever.

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

[a pause. slightly... surprised, really, at much of that.] Two places, eh?

The Core. That's what everyone blames it on, don't they? So if we find that, then, maybe--I mean, maybe there's a way to work out who... To work out if people have gone that way, and not been just killed or hauled off. So is it better to start there, then, instead?

[voice]

[controllingluck]

[Pauses, to let out a sighed breath] Yes. Two places. Here and... another island. I've been away from home for about a year now.

[A hmmm, so considering. The core is the root of all evils it seems] They say the Core brings us here, so logically people assume it takes us away, but no one knows where it is. I've taken history classes here. They say it's been missing for ages now, though SERO says they have it. I don't think anyone believes it. We would need leads on where to look...

That... might be the best place to start though. If all these people were captured in raids and taken in as slaves they would have left some traces. Someone would have noticed them somewhere, right? So would checking slave sales and auctions would be more fruitless then looking for the core?

[voice]

[atrumcanis]

Oh. There's--a few like that, now, isn't there. [urgh, though, she likely doesn't want to talk about that--subject ought to be changed--]

They can't have it. If they had it, then they'd do something with it, wouldn't they. They don't want us here. Why wouldn't they do something about that--change it, stop it, something.

Both might be useless. I mean--if it is the Core, it's not as if we can ask it what's done with the people that are missing. We'll just be able to look at it, and--that's all. We still won't have very many answers, not unless a booklet comes with it.