00:01 | VIDEO

[kissingchamp]

[ A scruffy woman appears on the screen. Her hair is a wild mess and her eyes are darkly blotted with eyeshadow. She rather looks like a girl that got trashed and passed out with her make-up on. Hold onto your pants - it doesn't get much better. ]

Hello! Hello? Pleasure to meet you, I'm Sexy.

No, no, that's not right. That's his name, not for you.

TARDIS! I'm Time-And-Relative-Dimension-In-Space.

No. Wait. Yes, but no. What was she called?

[ The woman ducks her head, thoughtfully, one translucent nail furiously tapping at her lower lip. Nevermind liquor, she's chattering away way too quickly. ]

Ah! Idris! You may call me Idris.

Where's my thief? Thief! Yoohoo! I know you're only ten. I know we've not met yet, but you know me, surely you do. Will. Have. Tenses! Thief? Has anyone seen my thief?

Comments

video;

[leadthebeats]

[ ... Yuri is honestly not sure how to reply to this at first. ]

You're looking for a thief? What exactly does this thief look like?

video;

[kissingchamp]

Funny hair and a duster. Lots of leg.

[onemoredeath]

You are looking for someone who is only ten in age?

[kissingchamp]

Possibly! I think Eight is the youngest to hope for in such a state.

[ Idris, that can't be taken the wrong way at all. ]

[onemoredeath]

Are you talking as in human years or a different race?

[video]

[shelkethetransparent]

...Time and Relative Dimension in space?

[video]

[kissingchamp]

Essentially.

[video]

[shelkethetransparent]

...What does that mean, exactly?

[draconic_historian]

Are you alright? You seem confused.

[kissingchamp]

On the contrary, I'm quite used to this... and not at all used to this. But never mind! I'll be better fashionably late.

[draconic_historian]

If you say so...

video

[arlathansgrace]

I have a friend who calls herself Sexy sometimes, too. I think you'd like her.

[Merrill gives a small wave.]

Andaran atish’an, Idris. My name is Merrill. [A pause.] Why are you looking for a thief? Did he take something from you?

video

[kissingchamp]

Oh, it's not what I call myself. But that doesn't mean I won't like your friend!

Hullo, Merrill! No, no! He stole me, of course! A long time ago. I'd like to have him back as soon as possible.

video

[arlathansgrace]

He stole you?

[Her cheeks puff out. Like a chipmunk's.] And you want to go back? [She scratches her head.]

He must be good, then. But you shouldn't tell Fenris that.

[video, encrypted.]

[holmesisnowhere]

[Sherlock's really not certain what to do with you, Idris, you gorgeous darling. Actually, he's more convinced this woman has fallen down and hit her head a few too many times, but with the last week or so being what it is, he can't rule out anything else. He leans forward to study her through the screen, head tilted vaguely to one side, and he says absolutely nothing.]

[video, encrypted.]

[kissingchamp]

[ When you look into the abyss, Sherlock, the abyss looks into you also...

Which is to say Idris tilts her head in an almost perfect mirror, though her eyebrows raise curiously. ]

What shall I win?

[video, encrypted.]

[holmesisnowhere]

[Sherlock doesn't look away, but inwardly he's a little unsettled. Most people don't look back at him, and not with that kind of a gaze.]

[His voice is soft when he speaks;]

"Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven, I know not how I lost him."

1/2 video;

[tardisblue]

[What is going on here?! TARDIS? What? What? ]

video;

[tardisblue]

What?!

[audio]

[asskickersunite]

Uh... You alright there, lady?

[Because Eddie thinks you may have taken one too many knocks to the noggin.]

[audio]

[kissingchamp]

Tip-top, my boy! Are you?

[ As in yes, hello, how are you? ]

voice

[implying]

Sexy, that's quite a name! Oh, but I suppose I could stick to Idris, if you really liked.

voice

[kissingchamp]

Cheeky thing! What's your name?

1/2

[godowntogether]

[Amal has been doing a lot of hiding, denying everything that's happened since the Initiative picked him up, wishing like hell he had some scotch... and reading the messages coming down the pike.

Is that... did she really say TARDIS? Well, that's just great, now he KNOWS he's lost his fucking mind. It's almost a comforting idea, certainly better than the concept of being a thousand years beyond everyone he's ever known.]

2/2 [audio]

[godowntogether]

So wait... you're trying to tell us you literally are a time machine?