02 - Flicker of a Candle

[onlyburnhotter]

Who: Yang Xiao Long and You
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS wonderduck
When: Now

[When Yang turns on her communicator's video feed, one would assume she is broadcasting from her own bunkroom aboard the Bishop; however, Wonderduck crew members will likely recognize the room as one on their ship. In fact, it's more than likely they've seen Yang coming and going fairly often the past couple of days, as she's been visiting her seemingly unconscious partner, Blake Belladona.]

[After she passed out during the meeting between Blake, Yang, Penny and Pyrrha, Yang had carried her back to Blake's bunkroom on the Wonderduck, and ever since she's been checking in on her. Each time, leaving more and more concerned about the state of her friend. From what she'd been able to pull from the fleet's archives, this kind of thing was not exactly a rare occurrence; yet, it still had Yang worried. After several days of just sitting and waiting, her impatience gets the better of her, and that's what causes her to flip on her communicator and set it broadcast fleetwide. Maybe she can get some answers or find some small comfort from other fleet members who have some experience dealing with this kind of thing.]

Hey everyone...

So, from what I've gathered, it's not exactly odd for people in the fleet to more or less drop unconscious for a little while, only to wake up later a little different.

[A slighly worried look off screen before she returns to addressing the communicator.]

But how long usually does this whole coma-like sleeping thing typically go for? And... when people DO wake up... is it usually bad? I mean, like... do they wake up still as themselves? Or only after something "else" has happened to them?

Am I even making sense?

[That last question addressed more to herself. She sighs, shakes her head. Tries to sound a little more cheery, with only moderate success.]

Anyways, yeah, any advice or answers anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[onlyburnhotter]

But even though your body stayed here... you still aged? Like, it was only two weeks here, but you aged three years?

[alwayscomeback]

That's exactly what happened. Like I said, super weird</I..

[onlyburnhotter]

{She appears to be studying him for a moment before responding.]

So how old were you exactly before you passed out?

[alwayscomeback]

Sixteen. I'm nineteen now... actually, technically I'm twenty, if you count time here, too. I've been here over a year.

[onlyburnhotter]

[Damn, that does make him older than Yang. He does look fairly young though... like he could be a fellow student at Beacon or something.]

So three years in two weeks... that had to have been quite the shock.

[alwayscomeback]

[They breed them young and gorgeous in the South Pole. ]

It really was. But that-

[He pauses, his brow furrowing. ]

That wasn't the worst part. While I was out? My girlfriend vanished from here. I woke up and she was just gone.

[onlyburnhotter]

[Yang's expression quickly turns more sympathetic.]

I'm sorry. That's an awful thing to wake up to.

[alwayscomeback]

Yeah, it wasn't the most fun time I've ever had. Just goes to show what jerks Atroma can be.

[onlyburnhotter]

As if we didn't already have clue enough...

Were you able to see her back home though? Like, was she there when you were?

[alwayscomeback]

She was, so I guess she's home? But when I asked Diamond about it, she just said Suki was "safe", she never verified people who vanish from here go home.

[onlyburnhotter]

Were you able to talk to her at all about... you know, all this?

[alwayscomeback]

I was. A few months ago we have these things called Calibrations. Basically we were all sucked into the Marsiva and walked through people's memories at night? It was weird. During that time, she and Beau appeared on screen twice and talked to us directly.

They were super vague and unhelpful about everything, though.