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Who: Hino Rei [

flameandpassion] and YOUUUU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Marsiva.
When: Now!

[ ah, the flood of new people.

rei has been watching the network for the past half-day or so, and carefully exploring the marsiva. she's run into a fellow fire princess, but has avoided most everyone else. instead, she's been listening. waiting, watching. absorbing as much as she can before recognizing that this is, indeed, not a joke.

she's no longer in adstringendum, but somewhere new. either castiel's ritual failed, or the animus decided to say one last 'fuck you' to their favorite shinto priestess before kicking her out the door. aelia, as always, is a cruel mistress.

so when rei turns on the feed, she looks like a typical eighteen-to-nineteen year old girl, but her eyes look a lot older. her hair is long and falls across her shoulders, and she's wearing a sweater, jeans, and boots -- all miraculously mended thanks to the atroma. how nice of them.

there's no hope in her expression, necessarily, but she can't help but ask : ]

Is there anyone here from Adstringendum?

[ that should bring out the familiars, anyway. and rei waits, almost as if she's expecting someone to burst in from off screen and go SURPRISE -- but when that doesn't happen, she continues, a bit wryly -- ]

If not, then I guess I have to start from scratch. Hino Rei, your new securities personnel. Or... whatever they call it.

[ she certainly doesn't look pleased about it, anyway, and finally, her expression breaks into something frustrated. ]

But if this so-called reality TV show thinks that they can just take over where the Animus left off, they have another thing coming, because I've had it up to here with --

[ and rei stops herself before gritting her teeth, exhaling slowly, and frowning into the camera. ]

When do I get off of this thing?

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{ there's a faint smile, but that poses another problem to rei ]

Is there a way to make this conversation private, Michiru-san?

[ rei knows how to do it on her pcd from adstringendum, but these things are an entirely different issue ]

[in answer, Michiru reaches out to fiddle with the communicator and switches it to private mode.]

It's relatively more private, but I can't make any guarantees.

[read: she doesn't really trust this Atroma thing]

It'll be good enough.

[ because! ]

Do people know about the senshi? Here, in this world. Or is it a secret?

Neither Haruka nor I have told anybody.

[there is a mildly unsettling existence of a Sailor W manga, but...] Do your Adstringendum friends know?

I didn't have much choice.

[ certain beings in adstringendum could sense energy on an even finer level than she can, and they immediately picked out that mars and rei both had the same frequency. but that seems so long ago that rei almost has to think about it to remember. ]

-- an old friend there, he picked up on it first, and the need for secrecy wasn't really there. But I'll let them know to keep it a secret -- some of them are here.

I'd appreciate it. [it's easier to say nothing than to unsay something. Others can be informed later if needed.]

Still, I don't see it lasting forever, since we're all in such tight quarters.

[though really, this is just pressing home the point how this Rei has quite a few unknowns about her]

Right.

[ pursing her lips in thought ]

I'll try my best, though. I'm sure they'll understand.

[ it's been so long without a solid team of senshi that rei has only had to worry about her own abilities ]

Thank you. [while magic doesn't seem to be such a big deal here, a habit like this is difficult to break.

Plus, the number of people she absolutely trusts is limited.]

You've grown to rely on them.

[ aha. ]

... I was in Adstringendum for five years.

[ she may as well just rip the bandage off, and her tone is quiet. ]

Most of that was alone.

[ so rei found friends and allies in others ]

[eyebrows go up for a moment as she lets that sink in.]

I wouldn't have lasted as long as you have.

[there's a grain of truth in that, despite the exaggeration.]

You would have.

[ rei didn't think she would either, but adstringendum was about survival, and rei did just that. there were senshi spread over the years, but no one stuck around for very long. rei is the only one who made it.

rei draws in a breath. ]

One of my friends, Castiel, figured out a way to break out of Adstringendum, to send us all home. I thought I was going there, but fate has different plans.

[ and so here she is ]

[a small smile in acknowledgment of that first statement, though she doesn't argue. Five years alone is hard to imagine when she thought she had firmly put that behind her.]

That's new. Other people didn't seem to have any control over these places. [which are, apparently, rather common. At least here.]

It took a lot of time and sacrifice -- and the universe was collapsing in on itself anyway, I think. It was practically unlivable.

[ it was always a science experiment, in the end. the temporary nature of adstringendum was only solidified in the end. ]

But I hadn't thought I would be brought to another world. No one in Adstringendum had been through something like that before.

[a quiet sigh]

I'd hate to think this place is the catch-all for when all these other worlds disappear.

[that's a bad prognosis for their probability of escape, in any case.]

Me too, but there are a lot of people here who have bounced around from universe to universe.

[ including her. ]

I guess time will tell, but I want to figure out how to speak to these Atroma people.

They do a lot more speaking than listening, but you're always welcome to try.

[except for that one time, but. Well.]

[ -- oho. ]

So you've actually seen them?

We were on the Marsiva for two months shortly after we arrived.

[lots of testing there] We didn't have the pleasure of meeting them in person.

-- two months?

[ incredulously ]

I believe they've fixed that by now.

[if that was even the point. She probably shouldn't drop news like that so casually.]

Was that because of something Atroma did, or an actual malfunction?

[ if she's on here for two months she'll break the window ]

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