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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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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.