(no subject)

[robitussin]

Who: a tiny
Broadcast: voice
Action: on the pathstone!
When: 9/16

[the voice that comes through the feed sounds young and very frightened. she trips over her words and stutters, nervous, speaking very quickly. she's wandering a corridor on the pathstone, pacing rapidly after leaving the room she woke up in, and the sound of her hurried footsteps can be heard in the background.]

Hello? I-I'm sorry. I know I'm not supposed to talk to strangers. But I think I'm lost... Um, really lost. I don't remember how I got here at all, and I tried my dad's phone number but it isn't working.

[a pause. breathing in, breathing out. it doesn't make her sound more calm.]

I don't really know who I'm talking to, but if you can help me get home - I'm really scared. Um, my name is Natalie, I...

[she trails off, and there's a pause as she walks past a window for the first time, looks out into the vast array of stars and blackness out there.]

No way—

[she fumbles with the communicator for a moment, panicked, before the feed abruptly stops.

ooc: natalie/opal is being affected by an age down augment glitch! she'll be younger for about a week.]

Comments

voice.

[robitussin]

How am I supposed to learn what I want to know if nobody knows it?

voice.

[paraclete]

Hmm. [His hum is indulgent, but not quite condescending: he wants her to know he's seriously considering what she says.] Well, other people want to know, too. So I'm sure you would all like to learn together.

voice.

[robitussin]

How long do you think it'll take...? My dad's probably pretty worried.

voice.

[paraclete]

I can't be certain, but I do know that with you helping them, they may find out even sooner.

Besides which, your life at home is likely paused for now. You've come to an entirely new place, Natalie. Things work very differently from how you thought they did.

voice.

[robitussin]

Paused...? What do you mean?

voice.

[paraclete]

[This time, when Kaworu pauses, it's to consider his own words. He's thinking of how to best speak; not because she's a child, exactly (he speaks to children and adults in about the same way), but because he isn't sure how to explain these mechanics, both what he knew beforehand, and what he learned with the Fleet. Finally, he settles on...]

Do you know what a video is?

voice.

[robitussin]

[she nods without a word.]