[Yes, folks. For once, your resident Laughing Beauty is using video. She figured she had hidden herself from the network long enough, and to be quite honest, she missed talking to you all. When the video feed starts, Sarina is sitting at her vanity, with her elbow propped up on the surface. She smiles as she props her chin in her palm, curling her ( Read more... )

[Silence at first.  But it's not quite silence, per se---there's the obvious sounds of a crowd, and particularly large one, at that.   People talking, glasses tinkling, music; it creates quite a din.  Then a more familiar voice arises, in the form of Seth giggling in response to a male voice saying (in an attempt at sounding suave), "you know, Miss ( Read more... )

[ Very early in the AM, a short video feed appears on the network. A few seconds in length, it's just a face and nothing more.

A few minutes later, a new transmission begins, this time with voice alone. ] Testing. Testing.

The time is 4:45 AM on an unknown clock. Testing. [ A short pause, and then it cuts a second time. That would seem to be ( Read more... )

Another three hours over pancakes, and raised voices, and a swirl of opinions. The obstetrics interns, at least, still welcome my company- even if it's been advised I steer clear of the NICU.

The object of hot debate today? Ten thousand dollars. SERO's Modest Proposal of commodification indeed. That humanity has the luxury and the option to ( Read more... )

( Cut for violence )

[the image snaps into focus relatively fast, clear and centered on a table, a heat lamp and tiny winged reptile. the tiny winged reptile's curled up under the heat lamp on top of the table, seemingly unfettered and contentedly asleep ( Read more... )

The priorities of this city astound me, sometimes.

[Re-l's voice is rigid and unemotional, surprisingly, kept in check with every ounce of control that she has.]There's a killer on the loose and instead of putting their best people on the case, they're taking any volunteers. No one wants to get their hands dirty and no one wants to go against ( Read more... )

[The feed starts up black, and then you can see that the black is actually a nose nudging at the camera... and as the nose moves further away from the camera, you can see a puppy, looking happy and licking at the NV with tail wagging. It looks like it's on a desk filled with books, in a brightly lit room ( Read more... )

[Uryuu is sitting primly at his desk (bundled up like his apartment turned into an igloo overnight) sewing, his chinchilla sleeping in her cage in the background. He doesn't bother glancing up at the camera ( Read more... )

[With all this business with the Core about - something Ash would have been interested in even if it wasn't supposedly the link between this city and all the other worlds, if only for its radioactive nature - one would think he'd be out and about more. Well, it certainly isn't that he has no interest. On the contrary: he's been quite interested. It ( Read more... )