003. ☼ voice

[scorchingheaven]

Well.

This is great. Should be used to people up and disappearing like this, but might as well -

If anyone's heard from Kuchiki Rukia, Kurosaki Ichigo, or someone by the name of "Shiro", let me know, please? If not ... guess it's a good thing they got out of here, then.

[Times like this Madsen's glad she doesn't have the video on, otherwise it'd be

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[text; encrypted]

[notglitching]

Network IDs not detectable.

[Text is even better than voice for hiding a reaction.]

[scorchingheaven]

[text ; encrypted]

Then they're home.

Dunno whether to be happy or worried.

[notglitching]

No data to support theory.

Any location possible.

['Home' or not... Rinzler's not happy.]

[scorchingheaven]

I like being optimistic about these things. Keeps me from being a paranoid wreck.

[blossomdream]

I've not seen any of them, since...

[ She stops, unsure of what to say, how to approach this. She doesn't know whether she should be worried, if she should stay at the shop in case someone comes home or if she should look. Maybe they've only gone for a long walk, maybe they needed to find something, maybe they found trouble-- ]

I...

[ She doesn't want them gone. Shiro might not have been the most proper young man, but Ichigo was not bad and Rukia... she wants to see Rukia. ]

Do you really think they have left?

[scorchingheaven]

It's possible.

[There's a pause, and a sigh.]

They also might've gone off too far and we can't get a hold of them too. Hard to tell right now.

[blossomdream]

[ She likes that better. After all, she's still a newbie with cellphones and that sounds pretty plausible. ]

Then I suppose there is nothing we can do but wait...

[scorchingheaven]

Yeah. Worst comes to worst I can try combing out the city. There isn't much available to us yet from the looks of it.

[interim_ceu]

[8C VOICE WAIT WAT]

Something's happened to Ichigo??? And Shiro and Rukia???

[Hey, he just showed up the other day, and these guys were some of the only people he knew! This is terrible news to him!]

People disappear often here?

[scorchingheaven]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on -

[:T]

I don't know for sure, I just haven't been able to get a hold of them for a while. They're friends.

As for the disappearing part, it happens once in a while? I don't know for sure.

[interim_ceu]

[Oh yeah. Alan has icons. 9_9]

[He huffs in exasperation, and she won't be able to see the way he rakes his hand through his hair in aggrevation.] I'll see if I can figure out this phone and try when I hang up with you. ['cause dialing someone who's not there totally makes them answer. It worked so well the first week after Flynn disappeared, right, Alan?]

This is just ridiculous! First we're...yanked out of our homes by nobody and dropped here, and then we're yanked out of here and planted...where, exactly?

[Ok, so maybe he's a little high strung. He's under a lot of stress. You'll have to excuse him.]

[scorchingheaven]

Dunno. My only hope is that it's home for them. We've all been through a lot lately.

[Well, it's pretty early in the game yet, so there might be something else behind it. Maybe.]

You get used to it after a while, unfortunately. Isn't the first time those three or myself have been strung along like this.

[guardsthecrown]

I've not seen them recently.

But, considering they are friends, if they're not at the clothing store, maybe they've all gone somewhere together.

[scorchingheaven]

Only problem with that is that you'd think they would've said something before taking off. Not like them to just up and leave.

[guardsthecrown]

Yes...I don't know them all very well. [But Rukia seemed honorable and conscientious.]

Do you think it possible something unexpected has happened? That they are here, but without phones? Or trapped?

There have been strange shadows seen recently.

[scorchingheaven]

I don't know. Even if they got caught without their phones, knowing Ichigo and Shiro? They'd make enough of a ruckus that we'd at least have an idea of their location. Believe me.

[Those two and their property damage. :'|]

Shadows ... Yeah, been hearing that. And here I thought things couldn't get any more irritating.

[ofnoblemind]

[The reply comes a little later, but Byakuya also doesn't use video. His Kuchiki mask is good, really good, but his sister, one of the two people he truly cares most about, is gone. His mask may or may not have some cracks appearing around the edges.]

I have looked around the city, but I cannot find or sense them anywhere.

[scorchingheaven]

... dammit.

[Though she figured that Byakuya would be the better one to look for them, since he could actually trace their signatures. While Madsen was familiar with the leaky faucet that was Ichigo and Shiro, that still didn't mean that they couldn't have learned something in the gap since she last saw them, time differences aside.]

You're positive?

[ofnoblemind]

[His tracking kidou had also come up empty...]

Yes.

[scorchingheaven]

Then I suppose the only thing we can do is hope that they got back alright.