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[noprophecies]

Who: you!
Broadcast: video
Action: Marsiva
When: right now tbh

[when the screen turns on, there's nothing but blackness for a few minutes, followed by a string of very angry-sounding curses. There's the sound of fumbling before a woman's face comes into frame, and she squints at the camera before her eyebrows turn down in a scowl.

Someone is not happy]

If this is supposed to be some sort of joke, then I am not laughing. Though I find it rather cute that you seem to have made your walls fire-proof.

We shall see what else your bloody ship can stand up to. Return my damn weapons.

[that's it, that's all she has to say. With a huff, she fumbles and manages to end the feed]

Comments

[noprophecies]

I do enjoy being effective with little effort. [that makes her sound lazy, which is the exact opposite of what she is, but she could care less. She's still simmering in the anger of being kidnapped and all the nonsense of back home]

Damned voyeurs.

[athru]

Who doesn't? [ At least Raven can appreciate it, and she has to fight back her huffed laugh at the rest of the commentary. ]

If it makes you feel better you forget they're there most of the time.

[noprophecies]

Strange people, of course. [trust in Tempest to provide only the highest level of biting commentary about her situation]

It doesn't. I feel as though I should be making rude gestures whenever I have the opportunity.

[athru]

Sounds about right. [ But at least they're getting along and, hey, that's what she's supposed to be doing.

... And she keeps wanting to laugh, damnit. ] Why not. It couldn't hurt.

[noprophecies]

I am glad someone understands. [they certainly are, certain people would be proud.

She raises an eyebrow, then casually lifts a hand to flip the bird in some random direction, without looking away from the screen] Bastards.

[athru]

That's what I'm here for. [ Ha ha.

Raven can't help her snort of laughter, shaking her head. ] The Atroma are going to love you.

[noprophecies]

[she quirks a brief smile] And here I thought my charming threats have already won them over.

[athru]

Give them time. They like to play hard to get.

[noprophecies]

My, I certainly enjoy a challenge.

[athru]

Then you're definitely going to enjoy trying to track them down.

[noprophecies]

They would not be the first I've attempted to track and kill.

[athru]

[ Oh, look, someone Raven can empathise with. ]

I've tried tracking them down. No luck.

[noprophecies]

Then I suppose there is no harm if I give it a go. I'll need a way to keep busy up here anyway.

[okay Tempest remember your manners, stop talking about hypothetical hunting and killing]

May I ask your name?

[athru]

I'm sure you won't get too bored.

[ Hesitation, then - ]

Raven.

[noprophecies]

You would be surprised. I am surrounded by things I do not understand, and I am certainly not going to - message? - someone every time I have a question. I will grow bored very quickly.

[but at least she realizes it. She tilts her head at the hesitation and the name, pausing herself]

Aurae Le Paulmier, but I go by Tempest. Well met, Raven.

[athru]

I suppose I'm lucky my friends were here before I came. It made things easier.

[ A pause, but - ]

Tempest. Did you pick that one?

[noprophecies]

People from your world?

[she nods and shrugs a shoulder]

I needed a new name, and that one fit my . . . attitude at the time very well. It still fits.

[athru]

Yeah. My brother and friends.

[ And boyfriend, but she's not going to tell everyone that. ]

Were you from one of the worlds that took your memories?

[noprophecies]

[who cares about that scrublord nerd]

Ah - I have been to one of those worlds, but it is something I did long before I was brought there, when I was a girl.

[but she's putting two and two together and - suddenly, she lights up curiously]

Your brother? Are you Charles' sister?

[athru]

[ Sounds about right, what a loser- ]

That seems to be a little like how it worked for the others - time passing, I mean.

[ Then she hesitates, but... ]

You know my brother?

[noprophecies]

[the biggest loser]

Mmm. It was necessary in the other place, but back home I did it to - hide who I was, more or less. It is a name that has stuck since.

[and one she still isn't ready to give up, but minor details]

Yes, from the world you mentioned; we are very good friends. [she looks genuinely pleased, all annoyance forgotten for the moment] It is a pleasure to meet you, regardless of circumstances.

[athru]

I can understand that.

[ Not that she's going to go into details. Let Tempest keep her name. Erik still used his, sometimes, it's not as if Raven can really say anything without being hypocritical. ]

I'm glad to hear it. [ Since all she had heard were horrors about the previous world. ] At least you're here and not back there.

[noprophecies]

[she uses all of her names, as much as she doesn't like it when some people use her real one. But she's as big a hypocrite as they come when it comes to names anyway]

I am quite thankful for that. [were this Kyriakos in any sense, the reaction would have been ten times more violent, and far less mild in comparison to her idle threat over the network] Not that I am pleased we are all trapped in some other prison world, of course, but I have been told that this one is nothing like that.

[athru]

No. It's not. We have some kind of freedom here.

[ She lifts a shoulder, absently. ]

We don't have to fight, and we get to stop and stretch our legs sometimes. It seems better than the alternatives.

[noprophecies]

[that seems a little too good to be true. When she'd first arrived in Kyriakos, her team as new as she was, they'd been told a terrible game had been going on right that moment - only to come out and find that everyone had found a way around it. She was naive enough to believe that things were fine, then. Until her team had died days later.

So even hearing that it from multiple people here . . . she knows better than to trust it. Even if the words are coming from the few people she trusts the most, and someone they trust as well]

I suppose I will experience that sooner or later.