[002 | Video | Backdated to Monday the 25th]

[acemedium]

[Well, isn't this a face you haven't seen posting to the network for quite some time, Exsilium. What's this weirdo girl up to this time, you wonder, clicking on her video? Surely it's going to be some kind of ridiculous announcement where she's grinning widely and--]

[Well, actually, she looks kind of distressed. And kind of shaky. But that just might be the camera, because she's moving around pretty quickly and you can see landscape behind her. But distressed, definitely that]

Sis, it's not nice to scare people! Are you trying to make me old and grey like Nick?!!

[And she clears her throat, though it's clear her composure is going the longer she speaks]

Has anyone seen my sis? Her name is Mia Fey, and she's a lawyer, and she's this tall [She holds one hand hiiiigh up (no, Mia isn't a giant, Maya's just really short)] and she's got long brown hair and she's really pretty [With a certain two assets you can't miss] and she's really good at defending--! Oh wait, that last one isn't a description.

A-Anyway, I can't find her, she's not in her apartment, and her phone's not working, and I really need to make sure she's okay, so, please, if you've-- [And it seems like her leg caught on something, because--]

Aaaaaah!

[--Because she's tripping and faceplanting right into the ground, dropping the tablet in the process and ending the feed. Yep, she just tripped and fell in the middle of her post, WHAT A CHAMPION]

[OOC: Feel free to action tag if you want to run into Maya in the streets, running around ineffectively looking for Mia. Yep.]

Comments

[whatsupcroc]

For their records. To know she's safe and not lost or anything?

[acemedium]

Ah... Right. I'll try that.

Thanks, Collette.

[whatsupcroc]

You're welcome. Good luck, Maya... and you know where to find me. I expect to see you later!

[acemedium]

R-Right. I'll see you later. [There's a pause, like she wants to add something else but can't think of the words; instead there's a fidgety silence]

[whatsupcroc]

( It's enough of a pause to clue Collette into something being up. )

Something on your mind? I man, outside of... your sister? As a Secret Agent, I'm always here to help out my fellows in the trade!

[acemedium]

I...

[...]

Are you used to this kind of thing? People going missing?

[whatsupcroc]

I wouldn't... well, yeah. It doesn't ever start feeling great, but around here... it happens even more than it could back home! You take from it what you can. The good and the bad!

[acemedium]

Back home...? So people went missing where you're from?

[whatsupcroc]

Yeah. People went missing. Some because they had to, others because they were kidnapped or killed or... who even knows. Not good stuff to think about! People leaving back home was always about choice or consequence. It's all so random here!

[acemedium]

I'm sorry.

[...]

It's true... and we don't even know where they go.

[whatsupcroc]

I think they do go back.

( To where-ever we came from. It's that came from she's also not sure about. )

[acemedium]

I see. [Funny, Maya doesn't seem particularly reassured by this.]

You'd think... they have the technology to bring us all here... that it'd make a little more sense how and when it happens... With leaving, too.

[whatsupcroc]

Not really. Not when they're picking us by lottery. But that's why we need to figure out how to get it stabilized.

[acemedium]

Do you think we can do that? We... transports, I mean?

[whatsupcroc]

Thought so from day one! So yeah, we will.

[acemedium]

And then, after that...?

[whatsupcroc]

We make it regular.

[acemedium]

You mean, bringing people? Or sending them back...?

[whatsupcroc]

Which one is more selfish? Probably that first, then the other second.

[acemedium]

You wouldn't wanna go home yourself?

[whatsupcroc]

Wouldn't that be part of both ways?

[acemedium]

You mean... go between home and Exsilium whenever you wanted?

[whatsupcroc]

It'd be fun! There's whole worlds that work like that. I wonder if it couldn't here, too.

[acemedium]

Yeah... [Far from her regular excitability, but she's really considering this now] And with the time stuff.. I guess we could make it so no one misses any time back home.

[whatsupcroc]

If it works like the Initiative says? You bet! Wouldn't that be nice?