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[stoicloyalty]

[ Without dithering for very long on image features or video (her startled expression in ink on the page is as easily switched off as it was accidentally turned on), text begins to form in lines, word by word at the speed at which she writes. It's slow for the moment as the pages of her book-form NV are wet. ]It was not raining when I was at the

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[Video]

[happyflyingcat]

Aye, you sound a bit pessimistic about being here to me.

[text]

[stoicloyalty]

[... that's a cat. ... It can't be a cat if it talks, surely. In any case, a cat-like thing is trying to gauge her tone. ]

I gave only the facts. There is little else I can possibly say about my being here other than it is not a place I know.

[video]

[happyflyingcat]

Aye, but there are much better ways to say it than simply observing and commenting on the bad things. Like the people you've met are very lively rather than noisy. See, saying things like that makes it sound much more optimistic!

[text]

[stoicloyalty]

Perhaps 'lively' would describe them better if I met them in person; so far I can only hear them, very loudly. I could not judge 'noisy' to be a good or a bad thing. The noise does not disturb me much.

But if 'lively' is a better word to use, then...

[ most people with voices who use them count as noisy to her, anyway. ]

text forever;

[payback]

They didn't have a single room for you?

text forever;

[stoicloyalty]

No. Although somebody happens to have just moved in.

It sounds like the rooms down my corridor have noisier occupants than both of us together.

[payback]

Is it okay being with a stranger?

[stoicloyalty]

Yes. It is something I am familiar with.

text;

[topslug]

Hello, Chane! I'm Yako Katsuragi. You'll have the apartment for a month... though that's odd. They must be running out of space if they put you in a double room.

Anyway, I'm a newcomer caseworker, so if you have any problems with settling in, or anything you want to know about the city, feel free to ask!

text;

[stoicloyalty]

Hello, Yako. I too thought that such space for one person was somewhat luxurious compared to the single rooms I passed by, but another person has settled here now. He does not look human.

And I shall if I have any questions. So far I think I will try to get used to this room and my roommate...

text;

[topslug]

Your roommate is a guy? [ WOW, WHAT IS THAT EVEN? ] That sounds like a really... awkward situation.

text;

[stoicloyalty]

Not particularly.

[ Pausing to glance at him. It's not like she puts herself into that kind of situation. ]

I suppose it is good to have female company but it doesn't affect me either way.

... Is this an unexpected rooming situation in Sirens Port?

[voice]

[sequincy]

Are you all right? Do you have questions about anything?

[text]

[stoicloyalty]

I am all right- I have a place to stay and it isn't entirely cold.

... What exactly is SERO? I was not kept for very long when I first arrived and did not hear an explanation.

[text]

[sequincy]

They're a corporation. Their holdings and interests are primarily scientific.

However, they're also morally bankrupt.

[text]

[stoicloyalty]

Morally?

[ She's never known science to have morals, what little of experimentation she witnessed from outside. ]

voice;

[evaluative]

[ Only a month before she arrived here too. This "Core" really was interesting. ]

If they did not inform you, the year is different, as well.

text;

[stoicloyalty]

[ That voice. Her writing hand wavers before she stills, clasping the book's edges, putting the pen to paper with the utmost care and a hopeful heart. She writes slowly to give time for a potential immediate response. ]

Father.

[ -he gave her information, it would only be right to respond. ]

Would the year be later than 1931?

voice;

[evaluative]

[ This is, really, the best sort of company he could have here-- someone loyal to him, in case the worst happened, as he had been warned. ]

It is currently the year 2011.

[ It would be harder to believe if the technology here were not far beyond that of his own "world." ]

text;

[stoicloyalty]

Things are not that much different other than the machinery.

[ There is probably little that he does not already know about this place, and so there is no need for her comments. Seventy years is a long time for a mortal to contemplate, still. ]

Is Leeza here?