video;

[ex_lecturing315]

( his faint, faint, faint memories of exsilium allow him to remember how to work his tablet easily enough; so much so that he assumes he was just that clever in his ability to figure out how to use a new, somewhat antiquated device. his voice is calm enough when he speaks, bored, just this side of sounding utterly disdainful. )

If you were looking for a ransom, then you should've done more research before kidnapping the first teenager in sight.

( this isn't entirely true, of course; there's his connection to mr maverick, but that's not very common knowledge. anyway, it's not like he's about to blurt out being somewhat adopted by one of the most influential people in sternbild to a potential kidnapper. )

Since there isn't anyone for you to demand it from, anyway, this is a waste of time for both of us. Should you really be giving away computers, anyway?

( this is incredibly stupid and such a waste of his life. whoever's on the other end of this device is going to have to suffer his scorn in all of its teenage glory. he doesn't care.

and there's always his hundred power, if it comes down to it.

after a moment, an attachment will appear: attached: ouroboros.png

yes he drew that, fight him.)

If that mark or its name means anything to you, I want to know.

Comments

[ex_lecturing315]

( oh finally, someone properly suspicious. )

which part

[gevurah]

There is no ransom / we have been recruited into a war.

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[ex_lecturing315]

between who and who

[ex_lecturing315]

*who and whom

[gevurah]

The Initiative and the totalitarian government of United Earth.

[ex_lecturing315]

never heard of them

[gevurah]

You don't remember this place. [ Why is this affecting some memories and not others? ]

[ex_lecturing315]

what's that supposed to mean?

[gevurah]

That something is wrong.

[ Vague vague vague. ]

[ex_lecturing315]

i can't remember somewhere i've never been

[gevurah]

Look around the network. You're not the only one. The replies those people are getting are similar.

[ex_lecturing315]

( there may or may not be a pause as he takes a moment to do that. a really short moment though. )

that's not my problem

[gevurah]

[ Right, he's younger. Must be in his unruly teen years. What a difference a few years can make for someone to grow to care about others if he's the hero he claimed he is.

Was.

Is going to be. ]

How cold of you.

[ex_lecturing315]

and?

( he's been called worse, anyway, and he doesn't really care about being cold. he can't help anyone else with a situation like this, he figures, and he doesn't expect any help in return. just answers, if anyone has any, for his objective - for finding ouroboros, because j. g. benjamin is dead and any hopes of answers died him. because he's back to square one after eleven years of looking, eleven years of pointlessness, eleven years and all he has to show for it is a name for the mark and nothing else. because the man, whoever he is, that murdered his parents is still at large and won't be facing justice - revenge - anything - any time soon. )

there's something very important i still have to do in sternbild

[gevurah]

Unfortunately you may be here for a while.

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[ex_lecturing315]

no

[ex_lecturing315]

( his fingers got a little ahead of him, whoops )

that can't be right

[gevurah]

The Transporter sends people back home at random. It could be from any second or several months before it happens.

[ Even if he should "know" this... ]

But when you return, you'll be sent back to the same place you were last.

[ex_lecturing315]

and in the meantime we play army here? even if that's

( even if he goes back to sternbild, but no, he can't pretend much of anyone would notice if he were just gone. he backspaces to the question mark and tries again )

i don't have time for this

[gevurah]

We're not playing at anything. [ She isn't, anyway. He wasn't judging from their meeting... but right now... ]

I'm sorry. [ "But we're stuck." ]

[ex_lecturing315]

it's not like you care

( you don't know him!!!1!!1!! )

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[gevurah]

[ KIDS. ]

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[gevurah]

I can't make you believe I do.

[ex_lecturing315]

if it's not their problem, no one really does

[gevurah]

That's a mighty assumption to make.