002 - BACKDATED TO JUST BEFORE THE FLOOD (VIDEO)

[patchyatbest]

[When the camera flickers on, instead of getting a fabulously framed shot of a random Inmate/Warden, you get a close-up of what appears to be wood-grain. In the background, there's a series of loud bangs, followed by some gravelly voice mumbling something vague in Russian. The screen twists around, and OH THERE WE GO! It's Mikhail

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[thedetailsman]

Rusty Ryan, warden. Good to meet you Mr. Bakunin.

[patchyatbest]

And I you, Mr. Ryan. [Pause.] So tell me, did you come here out of choice?

[thedetailsman]

Yes sir. There was an. . .incentive, though.

[patchyatbest]

What kind of incentive?

[Video]

[greatlightother]

[Curious look...curious look...]

You are hurt. [Duh, Sveta.] You need to see someone about those injuries, Mikhail Bakunin.

[Video]

[patchyatbest]

[He smiles.]

I'm fine, but thank you for your concern, Miss...?

[Video]

[greatlightother]

You're not. Oh...and I'm Svetlana Nazarova. I'm a warden and a doctor in the infirmary.

We spoke...before. At the camp.

[Video]

[patchyatbest]

Aside from a broken tooth, Miss Nazarova, [He gestures to where he's been prodding.] there's nothing time won't heal. Believe me, I have had worse.

[He then frowns for a second, because he's been desperately trying to purge the camp from his memory. :c]

...You're the girl from Moscow?

[Audio, in Russian.]

[you_run_i_chase]

A warden attacked you and no one did a damn thing about it? Typical.

[FILTERED, Russian] Because this is clearly the most important thing. C:

[patchyatbest]

You speak Russian?

[FILTERED, Russian] Because this is clearly the most important thing. C:

[you_run_i_chase]

Clearly.

[FILTERED, Russian]

[patchyatbest]

You speak it well.

[MOVING ON.]

So am I to assume this is not a... singular event?

audio; Russian b/c there can never be too much of it c:

[terminates]

There isn't one.

[FILTERED, Russian] OH ALL YOU FABULOUS LINGUISTS. You make his cold heart swell.

[patchyatbest]

If that is the case, then why does the divide exist? What keeps it there?

[FILTERED, Russian] HE HAD BUDDIES IN SOVIET RUSSIA, TRUFAX. And awww c:

[terminates]

The Admiral, and whatever powers brought us here in the first place.

It's arbitrary at best.

[FILTERED, Russian] As long as you don't follow that with: AND THEN HE KILLED THEM C: we cool.

[patchyatbest]

Ah yes, the mysterious man behind the curtain. [He laughs.] Has anyone ever seen him?

[bythe_books]

Assignments are in two days, Mikhail. You're gonna have to put up with me 'til then.

[patchyatbest]

I wasn't asking.