059. (Event 01)

[firstinthewar]

[There's a clicking noise, and a split second flash of video - a glimpse of long, silver-blond hair - and then video goes dead again.]

[...for a moment there's nothing at all. And then audio comes on with a click and a rush of static.]--how this thing works. It has been some time. But if I remember correctly, it was this button

Comments

[firebornfidelis]

Priscilla?

I just saw you yesterday afternoon.

...

Is there something the matter?

Video

[firstinthewar]

[It takes her a moment to remember that voice. And then, after a moment, she tips her head back.]

Riza Hawkeye.

Did you say yesterday afternoon?

[She frowns a little.]

It seems this place respects time no more than it did during my first stay here. How... irritating.

Video

[firebornfidelis]

Your first stay?

[She studies that face. Somehow so different and still so the same.]

Did you... go home?

Video

[firstinthewar]

Yes.

[...is that too little? It's hard to remember. She frowns.]

It was a ten year stay. I had stopped expecting to return.

[ voice ]

[xnoble_reasonx]

...

Things did not change because you did not leave. [Or... for very long, he should say, considering she was here just yesterday. But details. He's not into those as much as he is to the sound of years of maturing he hears when she speaks. Something... is not right.]

[ voice ]

[firstinthewar]

[Another moment. It's not that she has a bad memory, okay. It's just that it's been a decade!]

Byakuya Kuchiki. Still getting directly to the point, I see.

You're the second one to mention that I was not actually gone. And yet, I've lived a decade since yesterday afternoon.

[ voice ]

[xnoble_reasonx]

[A decade. Ten years. He can tell the experience in her voice. She does not seem as childish as she did yesterday.

He should not mind it. But he does.]

We already know time does not work as we believe.

My words are merely to inform you.

[ voice ]

[firstinthewar]

Yes, I was just remarking on the irritating nature of Anatole's time-warping abilities. I dislike this sense of disorientation.

My thanks, Byakuya.

I would hope you've prepared yourself for a series of odd meetings, then. It seems I'm not the only one thus affected.

[voice 1/2]

[halcyonthird]

[voice 2/2]

[halcyonthird]

It's been less than two hours.

[Looks like your hair took the lead and your yoki...]

[...what?]

[Or another halluci--- No. Not a hallucination.]

[...]

[voice ]

[firstinthewar]

[OKAY THIS VOICE SHE KNOWS WELL. Even now.]

Irene. You're still here.

...it's a little odd, I have to admit. I saw you only days ago, at home.

[voice]

[halcyonthird]

Hm. [A pause.] I've been here a little over a week.

[...]

[You, however...]

[There's the hint of a smile under her words, but she's completely unnerved. And finally:]

...was I well?

voice? voice

[clawofsin]

[...there are so, so many things he could say to this, but what is there that could convey exactly how bizarre this all sounds?]

Uh.

What?

VOICE | JASDJASD

[firstinthewar]

[Okay there's a voice she will never ever forget.

[Ever.]

[Which means it takes a bit to answer, and when she does, she doesn't sound quite as composed. Maybe there's a little tremble there.]

[Maybe.]

Senji.

I've missed you.

VOICE | MASTER WORDSMITH

[clawofsin]

Yeah, I-- you know I haven't gone anywhere, right? At least I don't think I did.

Jeez, this place is so fucking weird.

You mind tellin' me what happened to your, uh... everything?

VOICE | /pets his broken brain

[firstinthewar]

I don't think you went anywhere, no. It seems I am the one who changed.

[applelimber]

Gee Sis, something seems a little different about you.

[Yeah, that's a feeble attempt at sarcasm.]

[firstinthewar]

Hello, Helen. It's been some time.

[Even at home!]

i'm...sorry about her.

[applelimber]

Oh yeah? Did you boobs get any bigger?

asdakdjnad

[firstinthewar]

I doubt it. Did yours?