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[un_fated]

[The feed flickers briefly before it reveals a young woman eyeing the camera -- and then who doesn't seem to want to look at it, glaring off beyond it with a faint scowl. A fleck of what looks like blood marks her cheek.]

[This is Uruki . . . who has been here since November, and yet never posted to the main network.]

Stephanie Brown is gone.

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permavoice

[ebony_mask]

Gone gone, or just dead?

[un_fated]

[Uruki goes to voice, but not before a slight shift of the eyebrows.]

Just gone.

Take it you've got a preference.

[ebony_mask]

How do you know?

[un_fated]

That you've got a preference, or that she's gone?

1/2

[reginagloriae]

Huh? Your roommate?

2/2

[reginagloriae]

[She hesitates to offer. She has to ask Loki first.]

Ah. I...If it's urgent and my roommate doesn't oppose, our apartment isn't pretty or big, but there's still a couch.

[until Uruki finds a better offer]

[Voice]

[un_fated]

[Uruki switches to voice, and Youko gets a disgruntled sigh through the nose.]

Thanks. May take you up on it.

If only because it's too freaking quiet.

[Voice]

[reginagloriae]

When Loki gets here, I'll ask him...

[He's been a girl once, so they have so much in common.]

You don't like living alone?

video;

[believesbeyond]

Where do you live at the moment?

[Voice]

[un_fated]

[Switch to voice -- Uruki doesn't like the camera much.]

Edge of sector 9. Why?

permvid

[believesbeyond]

[Luna, meanwhile, leaves her NV on video because... why not?]

I wouldn't mind sharing with someone. But I wouldn't want to be too far away from work.

Permvoice?

[un_fated]

[Silence for a long moment.]

. . . How old are you, anyway?

[video]

[theshortestbird]

[Oh god. He might be sick. She can't be gone, she's already been gone once, she can't be gone again...]

She's... how long?

[video]

[un_fated]

Maybe three days.

Friend of yours?

[video]

[theshortestbird]

Three days and you're now saying something? [He doesn't mean to be snappy, but his... god, what does he even call her?]

...Yeah. A good friend, we're from the same world.

[video]

[un_fated]

[unfazed] She went out a lot at night. Liked her privacy. So did I. Sometimes the only reason I knew she was there was because there was a new bowl in the sink.

[quiet for a minute]

Good person. I'm sorry, for what it's worth.

[voice]

[rapturescreed]

What skills do you possess?

[voice]

[un_fated]

[And that was just the kind of question Uruki had been dreading. Because in this world, with its rampant technology, sometimes it seemed as though she knew almost nothing at all.]

[A slow, steady breath through her nose.]

Can control the wind. And I'm good in a fight.

['Killing things,' might have been a wry reply, but that gets left out. This is a job interview.]

[voice]

[rapturescreed]

How are you with manners, and other such etiquette?

[voice]

[un_fated]

[Of all the questions she expected to be asked, this was not one of them. But honesty seems to be the best policy.]

When I need to be, if the job requires it. I'm probably not the kind of person who'd be good at a Greeter job.