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Who: Uchiha Sasuke
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Marsiva
When: This very moment.

(broadcast)

[ Sure there are bound to be the occasional less-than-thrilling broadcasts but this one may be a new low, with the camera focused in on a nondescript blob that turns out -- with some acquired distance -- to be a knee. The feed shakes then and there's the loud metallic tap tap of the device being knocked against the framework of one of the generic cots aboard the Marsiva. Tap. Tap. Tap. The only other sound is that of the painfully bland music in the background, without a word being spoken.

At least this inept user finally turns the communicator around to inspect it at another angle, granting any viewer a flash of dark and impractically spiked hair before the camera then focuses on equally shadowed eyes and a severe expression.

No, he's not going to panic. He probably already did that internally before he even tried to figure out the communicator ~~less than successfully~~. Send aid. ]

(action)

[ Sasuke will be easy to encounter either sitting on that cot and fiddling with his communicator, exploring the bay thoroughly, or staring with incredible and difficult-to-read intensity out into the murky void of space. Godspeed. ]

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[ ... Oh. Yeah, that's a good point. She looks thoughtful. ]

If nothing else, they'd probably enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out how to do it. I've been teaching them the basics of chakra and stuff like that, so I bet they'd be able to think of and test a solution.

... if you're the test subject then they'll need to make it more durable.

My chakra's more powerful than yours is. [ Rude as fuck. ]

[ She looks back at the screen, irritable now. ]

It's not like I needed reminding, but sure, thanks for that.

Besides, if it's for you, then you'd be the one testing it in the end. It's not like they could imitate someone else's chakra for a test.

It's important enough to mention. If I received something that I only then immediately destroyed, it'd be particularly useless. [ Clearly that's just good common sense. ]

[ Sarcastically: ]

I'll make sure to let them know not to present you with anything less than your godliness, Sasuke-sama.

I'm not grandstanding.

I'm saving them work.

I think you might be grandstanding. Just a little.

[ Or overcompensating for where he's been limited now, but she's nice enough to not voice that thought. ]

In any case, they enjoy the work, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[ If he were bragging he might choose to do it in the direction of someone who didn't already know what he could do. ]

It still isn't pressing either way. Has anyone else from our world ever come here?

[ Hmm. ]

Not to the Fleet. But even including before that, you're the first I've seen in ... three years, now.

[ Well that's depressing for you. What a terrible first guest to have after years. ]

It's probably best it stays that way.

...

[ Is it best for their friends to not come here? Probably. This place is at least leagues better than Paradisa. But ... ]

Sasuke, people can come here from the past, too. People who are dead, in our time. In a way, it ... gives them a second chance to live.

[ If there's anything that could add even more weight onto a currently very quietly overwhelmed mind that would be it. ]

... the dead earned their rest. That isn't something that should be toyed with.

[ I met your mother, she wants to say. And I miss my dad. But after a moment, she just looks away from the screen instead. ]

Tell that to Atroma. They're the ones who are making all of this possible.

[ Do not tell him you met Mikoto, oh my god. ]

If I thought I would be heard, I would. I'm telling you because you're the one acting like it's something good.

I'm telling you it's possible, that it's happened before and it'll happen again. And that a lot of people who were dead are happy to be alive again, usually because they died of unnatural causes.

[ She folds her arms across her chest again, expression stony. ]

You can have whatever opinion you want about it.

[ Having just risked his life -- again -- to put the dead back where they belong -- including his own brother -- he certainly has strong feelings. ]

I'm aware.

If that's all for now, we'll speak again later.

[ Yeah, it's -- probably best that line of conversation doesn't continue. She's silent for a moment, before: ]

Fine. If you have any more questions, here's my frequency.

[ She pastes a series of numbers that link to her personal communicator. ]

...

[ He has no idea what the hell this means; is this the same as operating a walkie-talkie? Cellphones only show up in the epilogue, Ino. ]

[ But he memorizes the number regardless, assuming he'll find its use when it becomes relevant. Fake it 'til you make it. ]

Very well.

[ She pauses, considering just hanging up and leaving him to his own devices, but ... well, she's at least matured enough to not slam the proverbial door on him just yet. She's also (somehow) mature enough to not add on "If you have any more questions, it's okay to ASK those questions."

Just barely. ]

You touch the button that looks like an envelope on the screen, and then there's a spot to put in the number.

I know how to do it.

[ Yeah. As of literally right now, he knows how to do it. ] You should speak with your friends to calm them down. Some of them seem bothered. [ And that's it, now he can hang up. ]

Uh-huh. Bye, Sasuke.

[ Wow, she super does not believe you. But she makes no comment on her friends there, just opting to hang up as well. ]

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