001 | video

[runsthepath]

[[ooc; Blue is Ghanima. Black is Leto.]]

[ The video feed flicks on with little ado - no curses or crashing or large blurs of motion. There’s nothing besides a young teenage girl’s face - somewhere between 14 and 16 - with blond hair bobbing in a ponytail as she walks, the screen with it - blue eyes lit up with a very abnormal glow. For all

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[orange_balls]

[Video Forever]

[He was going to ignore this, much as he did most things on his phone, but a familiar, albeit younger looking, face catches his eye. Another who looks like Charles. This city seemed fond of his face.]

Not much for stories, nor children, but can tell ya that you're right in thinkin' you've been taken. By who, well that's just the question everyone wants t'know. Though whoever is doin' this sure seems t'like the odd folk.

[Himself included.]

[runsthepath]

[He can see that.]

Do you enjoy this place?

[orange_balls]

I enjoy everythin', lad. There's fun t'be had in most things, just gotta find that bit o'fun and take it.

Or make your own fun.

[runsthepath]

We all yearn for that sort of freedom, but overindulgence is the quickest way to the end. The most successful of predators understand that.

[stand_witness]

[ text; anon]

[ Well. Organics that speak of the past, and future as being one, and the same? But...your life cycles are so short. How is that possible? ]

Query; previous encounter(s) with temporal flux phenomena?

[besidethepath]

[ She doesn't have much difficulty with the switch to text, though she notes the use of it rather than the default video. ]

None. I have run, with time, in it's straight current. Though with expanded sight.

[stand_witness]

[ He prefers it better than video. And keeping the anon trace around for now. ]

Riddles in re; temporal flux
Use of obscure metaphors; deliberate?

[ Believe it or not, Soundwave is honestly interested, and non-hostile just now, too. Not, you know, that it probably translates well. ]

[besidethepath]

[ She smiles a little on her end of the phone, not that Soundwace can see. She's not Leto, so she'll try for making a bit more sense. ]

Habit. Much of time resides within my memories. They blur.

[urnotafraid]

[Perma-Video]

[ Because really, what else should he do? Pretend that he didn't notice this? ]

You might have to wait for someone with a little more patience to get a story around here.

[besidethepath]

[ She blinks for a moment, expression neutral ]

Why is that?

[urnotafraid]

It's been one of those weeks where the people running this place decided to have a little fun involving poison and handcuffs. Some people are still recovering from it.

[besidethepath]

[ Her brows knit ]

...And you have these kind of weeks often?

[besidethepath]

Action;

[ After a bit of conversation with their fellow involuntary citizens, Ghani pockets the phone for a moment, in favor of bringing up the topic she'd bite her tongue on earlier. She chews at a lip for a moment before braving it. ]

And... what of our Golden Path, Leto? Was this part of what your foresaw? [ Another thing you kept from her? She'll leave that part off, though he'd no doubt know it regardless. She can't help it, she worries. ]

[runsthepath]

[Leto watches his sister chew at her lip. He does know it, and it upsets him to understand that that is the first place her mind goes to - their differences. But he will also leave it unsaid, since it would accomplish little right now to acknowledge something like that.]

This isn't a part of it. I still see the Golden Path, all the possibilities of it. [And his brow furrows, because this is difficult for him to explain.] This place doesn't prohibit, but it doesn't help either. I could say that Abax doesn't exist within time at all.

[besidethepath]

Outside of time? How is that... [ Possible? There's plenty that's possible outside of even what she comprehends, she's sure. Still, it's unsteadying. She nods, the fingers intertwined with his rubbing over knuckles idly as she rolls it over in her head. A city outside of time? Dead to the universe? ] It is a phantom then. Like a ghostly shell?

[ Said questioningly, like guesswork. ] And Arrakis? ...Does it move without us?

[runsthepath]

There will be time to understand it. [Meaning: They won't be leaving any time soon. A minor annoyance to him - and only an annoyance because it doesn't affect his plans.

He sees himself speaking to Jessica-wife-mother-grandmother, he sees himself speaking to her in Arakeen, and he tells her that he wishes that they had more time to know themselves.

And he is here again.]

We can be returned to the exact moment which we left. And this world adapts to our needs. [Spice addiction.]

[token_vengeance]

[Voice.]

...you have got to be kidding me.

[Four faces of Charles now. Wesley, Charles, Charles, and now...this man. There is something to it--there has to be. Three of Erik's face, Four of Charles's.

This can't be a coincidence. There has to be something to it. To somehow make order from chaos.]

[runsthepath]

video (forever) ;

I do not - though I agree with the sentiment. Quite a collection has been started.

[token_vengeance]

You're a tele--

Get out of my mind.

[And there is a pause in the sounds, before the cool 'shlink' sounds. Guess who has their helmet on.]

[runsthepath]

[The noise gives him pause, but otherwise he remains neutral.]

I'm unable to read any other minds but my own. You're not the first to misunderstand, your voice betrays more than you believe it does.