[Video flickers on from an NV that's been dead for over a month. As always, the picture doesn't show the owner itself, but rather just the clouds in the sky overhead. Everything's damp, and a puff of breath comes in from one side of the feed. It's cold ( Read more... )

[This time there's nothing but blue sky in view of the video camera as it clicks on. Again, Snake is in the Phantomhive gardens, though he's on the patio, keeping close to the house should something happen within. He's been jumpy, unusually so, for the past couple days. Nights have been sleepless and abandoning Elliot's bed to wander the corridors ( Read more... )

[Hitting land isn't exactly what Snake is expecting, as his last memories are of a boat. A boat full of moving dead people and slowly filling with water. But it's hard to deny the ground when he's dropped facedown onto it with such force. A force enough to knock his NV from his pocket, the voice feed clicking on. Cold ocean water is soaked through ( Read more... )

[The video clicks on and passes glance over a neat bedroom before focusing in on a nest of eggs. Yes, a nest in a bedroom. Elliot's bedroom to be exact, in his bed, actually. The comfy circle of cloth is, in fact, made of the young man's sheets. The eggs are more oval in shape than what would be expected from a normal fowl. About three distinct ( Read more... )

[Once again, there is a lovely view of the Phantomhive gardens. Or rather the edges of the treetops and a sky of boiling gray clouds beyond. The voice that comes over the network isn't sad persay, but curious, confused.]'You want to be near someone always, and they feel the same in return,' says Oscar ( Read more... )

[It's light out, the video recording nothing but the misty gray clouds above, peeks of clear sky showing in between. The canopies of the trees sway in and out of the picture with the gentle wind.]Families shouldn't hurt each other. Families shouldn't hate each other. Families should protect each other, take care of each other. Right? Because family ( Read more... )

[Snake's voice is stronger than normal, even in tone, actually confident for once. There is a reason that he's accessing the network this time, and it's something he feels strongly about. The world was terrifying when he first arrived, and he feels obligated to reach out, to try and comfort.]'There seems to be a great number of new people who are ( Read more... )

'Are you ready, Snake?' asks Webster. 'Remember what you wrote.'

'Don't mess it up, Snake,' says Oscar.

'If you do Smile won't f-'

-I can do it.

[Seems that the video has turned on prematurely. The feed's turned to show Snake, standing with his shoulders as straight as he can manage (which isn't quite as straight as they should be) and trying ( Read more... )

[Snake is looking more than a little stiff and unsure as he stands in what seems to be the Phantomhive kitchen. For the last week, he's been nested in the closet of the bedroom given to him, adjusting to the drastic changes in his life. It's about time he shows himself, yes ( Read more... )

[Snake hadn't wasted any time when he arrived. Terror and confusion had overtaken him the moment the greeter arrived to speak with him. He'd bolted as soon as he had his wits enough to stand. Thankfully, instructions that the strange looking pocketwatch he had on him could be used to communicate had been shouted before he was out of earshot ( Read more... )