Good day, Exsilium. My name is Naoto Shirogane. [The English is formal and passable, but there's still a hint of an accent and a problem with the '-lium' that sounds more like a '-rium' that reveal this rather androgynous teenager to be a non-native speaker. ... If the name wasn't any indication, anyway.]

I must say, while I'm just to being out on the field, a war is something I have never been to before. Admittedly, this is also the first time I have heard of sentient weapons. [Stumbles over 'sentient' too. She had a hard time understanding that word when the woman who greeted her informed her of that-- that certainly wasn't part of her English vocabulary, and she had needed to carefully analyze the other words in her speech to get the gist of it.]

What I do not understand is how a weapon not from their own supply can become such a thing. Their 'technology', yes, but as far as I can tell, they have yet to do anything to my weapon.

Hmm... [Thoughtful look!] If I may-- what weapon do you have, and how has it changed, if it already has?

[Notice the teenager's not talking about the Initiative and being stuck here to do someone else's dirty work, because really, Naoto thinks it goes without saying that they're all pawns and ways to get home will be a big secret to all of them, what with the woman before being mum on that and whatnot.]

Thank you.

Laptops? Last I saw this was in a museum. Guess they're into the antiquities.

[He’ll mess with it a bit and turn it upside down so that the only thing visible is a table for a moment. Some odd scratching noises and rubbing sounds follow, the video fuzzes a bit before clearing back to him facing the camera again. His expression is pretty serious.] Doesn’t look so bad. But is it fireproof?

You never know, this thing could just combust on you when you’re asleep. Burn down the whole apartment structure and a block radius before someone even notices it. People don’t always wake up from excessive smoke inhalation. Sometimes the smoke gets to them first. But… there’s enough of us here that someone is bound to wake up before it gets out of control, right? People not comfortable living in these apartments, maybe? [Shrug, he really doesn’t seem all that bothered by this notion.]

Well, at least these laptops are free. And hey, getting paid to fight in a war? Not bad at all.

[Video]

Hey guys! Anyone got a clue what's going on with training? Ever since that VR stuff went down I haven't been able to do anything over at the training center! C'mon! I'm gettin' antsy!

[Action]

[And what does Sonic do when he gets antsy? He runs. Although to call what he does "running" is accurate, it barely does it justice. He speeds through the roads and marketplace, springs off of awnings, swings on rebar and throws himself ever higher to the rooftops, flipping, sliding, bouncing, grinding on disused power lines and jumping from one wall to the other... In fact, he spends as much time in the air as on the ground.]

[Maybe you catch him while he's on the ground between runs. Maybe you find him on the rooftops. Or maybe... well, people make mistakes, even someone who's been doing this forever like Sonic. A sudden gust of wind, a missed trajectory, and next thing you know he's crashing through your apartment window by accident while your in the middle of something. Whups.]