♠ FIFTH DRAW || 2ND OCTOBER 2009 || VOICE

[thirteenthace]

[There's of course obviously a reason as to why Phoenix isn't using video - he knows well enough that he looks terrible beyond belief, and besides speaking is all that is needed for this anyway. He sounds pretty bad even from his voice alone, and its obvious that he's taking a great deal of effort to even get himself to speak.]...somehow it feels

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Video;

[thewarisover]

I don't count as an official, but I've an interest in knowing exactly what happened.

[Yeah, professionalism and all that. For science, so on, so forth.]

[Voice]

[thirteenthace]

[Oh hello there Roy. Phoenix kind of figured you'd be pinging this sooner or later.]

I don't mind sharing the story with you. [It's not like he has much to lose by hiding it anyway, since he'll tell it to Shibusen sooner or later.]

Video;

[thewarisover]

Then I'm all ears. Start wherever's convenient for you.

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[thirteenthace]

[This is Phoenix taking a moment to filter this, just in case Shibusen doesn't want this public (and besides, its not that all pleasant).]

We were taken to Michigan, as you might have figured. In the beginning we were all together in one cell, our abilities stripped by their magic. All of us were barely kept alive in there so that we could be their subjects for their--[the first falter now - everytime he recalls it, it only starts to bring in his trauma...] --experiments, I assume.

[A brief pause in order to calm himself, and then he goes on.] I'm not that all sure what exactly the nature of said experiments were, but... most of us were changed in some form or another because of it. [Pause again, and then a weak laugh.] Not exactly something anyone of us would be willing to go through again.

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[thewarisover]

[If he notices the way Phoenix has faltered, he's not calling him on it.]

...Changed, you say. [Pause.] What differences have you noticed?

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[thirteenthace]

I'm not sure what it exactly signifies... but most of us can turn into animals now, apparently. Or, at least I can.

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[thewarisover]

...Hm. [Thinking this through. Recalling his readings.] Witches seem to have the ability to commune with or turn into animals.

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[thirteenthace]

...oh, did they? [Now he has a bad feeling about this.] But like I said, I'm not too sure what this exactly entailed... pretty much all of us were too weak to do anything.

[Brief pause] We did however attempt to escape from the place once, a few days before the raid occurred.

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[thewarisover]

[Pause.]

It didn't go too well, I take it.

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[thirteenthace]

It's the reason why we were all in separate cells when you found us. [And the reason why Rin died.]

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[thewarisover]

I see.

[Pause.]

What of Dr. Crane? Did any of you see him?

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[thirteenthace]

[BAD TOPIC BAD TOPIC. Phoenix doesn't want to talk about Scarecrow most of all, mainly because what he did traumatized him the most. But still--he said he would answer, and answer he would do. Or at least attempt to, anyway.]

He--[Pause. Yet another falter.]--he took some of us away. For his experiments. I'd rather not go into detail about it. [Or else his trauma might just start showing.]

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[thewarisover]

Very well. [He won't push. If Crane's activities in Death City were any indicator before...]

Still up to talking?

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[thirteenthace]

[Good move there, Roy.]

Yes, I'm fine. [Just so long as Crane isn't brought up again...] What else do you want to know?

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[thewarisover]

What animal form do you take? Do you get any other abilities?

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[thirteenthace]

A hawk, though I'm not sure about the exact species. As for abilities however, I can't be too sure.