004. ☾ Re-Intro { Accidental Video / Action }

[proteusmoon]

Who: Cecil Harvey and you
Broadcast: Fleet wide video
Action: Marsiva
When: 1/29

[ There is little more jarring than being suddenly snatched from your home, dropped into a new potentially highly dangerous universe with a bunch of strangers, going to sleep one night only to wake up a month later in a completely different place than you fell asleep.

Honestly, Cecil has no idea what she's been doing for the last month, but she likes to imagine she went home, even if she can't remember anything. Needless to say though, she's not happy to have been moved and her mood is making her feel pretty anti-social until she can clear her head. The sterile smell lingering on the Marsiva doesn't help much with that though.

It's a good thing Atroma clearly has other plans, right? The network panel nearest to her is broadcasting her little brooding session as she stares out a viewport at the stars, dressed in the red and ivory finery of her kingdom — mantle, crown, and all — completely still and silent, unaware her return is currently being announced regardless of how she feels about it. ]

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video

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[oh... boy. oooooh. boy. he's really had too much to deal with today. the positive emotions will probably kick in any second now, but for the moment, all he's got is a very surprised--]

Cecil?

video;

[proteusmoon]

[ Uhhhhh, well, it's kind of hard to ignore familiar disembodied voices when they seemingly come out of nowhere.

Once she realizes what's going on, she sighs with exasperation and rather quickly takes off her crown. ]

...You're still here.

video;

[birdsbirdsbirds]

...Yes. I am.

[he... blinks. it's still coming in kind of slow.]

And you're back?

video until the end of time— or just the thread;

[proteusmoon]

I wasn't aware I ever left until I woke up here.

But yes, it seems so.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Ah, well... [in that case, he finally cracks a little smile. and it gets bigger as he speaks.] Good morning, then. I'm sorry you're stuck on that Marsiva ship again.

[proteusmoon]

[ She shrugs a shoulder a bit. ]

It isn't so bad.

[ She's lying of course; it's really, really terribly awful. But for some reason, she doesn't want to seem so upset in front of Robin. ]

It's different from the ships.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

It's boring is what it is, unless you like exercise equipment.

[he laughs a little, to himself... he can't really believe it. this feels like a dream. it refuses to sink in, fully.]

But you'll be back on another ship soon, I suppose. How strange...

[proteusmoon]

What is strange?

[ She guesses she likes exercise equipment, but she's too grumpy to take advantage, so it's kind of useless to her at the moment. ]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

You're the second person to come back like this.

I am also almost getting used to it. The bigger picture...

[proteusmoon]

[ She has no idea what he's talking about. ]

What bigger picture would that be?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Oh, just... All of us being stuck out in space, and me just going along with it. As if our very different perceptions of what happened are at all normal.

[proteusmoon]

Well, nothing about this is normal. We were abducted, we're trapped here, and they can apparently do as they please with us.

[ Wait-- ]

Are you all right?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Me? Yeah, I'm fine. [he looks a little... confused.] Do I seem off?

[proteusmoon]

[ She answers a bit too quickly: ]

Yes.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Huh. [he shrugs!] Maybe I am. I'm happy to see you again, Cecil.

[proteusmoon]

Er... well, I'm glad to hear that.

[ The bit about him being happy to see her again, that is, not the bit about being maybe a bit off. ]

Are you well?