[There's a long stretch of silence before a voice can be heard speaking. Laura's voice is emotionless, even more so than it usually is.]

Julian Keller is gone. I have checked the board, his name is on it. [She hesitates, like she might say something else, then decides against it.] That is all. [She turns the audio off.]

[The image shown is that of a very injured Laura being held by a woman near the river of fire.]

Hi, X. You know I'm wondering, think you could survive a swim in this river?

[The woman grins and jerks Laura hard enough by the arm to pull her shoulder out of it's socket; Laura does ot even flinch.]

C'mon X, at least you could put up some kind ( Read more... )

[Laura actually looks almost curious about all this.]

They have been here approximately two days, twelve hours, and seventeen minutes. It is possible they are not leaving.

[She pauses and thinks for a minute.] Exercise caution when speaking to Magik; she is potentially dangerous.

Hello. [She pauses, trying to figure out where she goes from here.]

I am Laura. I have been scheduled for guard shifts with Shale and Zevran on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Our shifts are from midnight to six. [There is another pause, this one is longer.]

We should speak. [And with that, she just turns the feed off. She said what she needed to ( Read more... )

[The camera flicks on , showing a close up image of Laura. For once, her face is not emotionless, there is a mixture of confusion and sadness in her expression.]

Po is gone.

[She looks down and then backs up from the camera, revealing her hands, which are covered in blood. When she woke up and noticed the subdermal governor on the nape of her ( Read more... )

[The camera clicks on as it's dropped to the ground, showing an image of a lone figure stumbling off the docks. The figure is concealed by the shadows for a moment as they take a few more uneasy steps before falling to the ground near the camera. This fall gives the video feed a perfect image of Laura, in her current state. Deep burn wounds cover ( Read more... )

( Trigger warning, graphic content. )

[The first noise that can be heard is a loud crashing sound as the tablet slams against the foot-board of the bed. The image of Laura appears on the screen, somehow she's being lifted up into the air and pinned onto the wall behind the bed ( Read more... )

[The video clicks on accidentally, the odd position of the camera indicates that the tablet might have been thrown. Laura can be seen huddled in the corner of a dusty abandoned living room, there's broken glass all around her and it looks like there might be blood all over the floor. She blinks and moves slightly, showing that she's gripping a ( Read more... )

People have said the dreams we had belonged to someone else. I am curious as to whose dream I had. There was a church, a man was giving a sermon explaining how he believed people could make it through difficult times with the help of family, friends, and God. It did not make sense.