exsilium | LOG IN: #01 ( audio. )

[ Em doesn't very much enjoy talking or, in general, socializing. Not that she's anti social, it's just that she is very shy and social situations get her anxious and apprensive and she never really knows what to say. She's a quiet person outside her group of friends and she prefers a book to going out, but this time, it's clearly a very different situation she has found herself in. Her voice is quivering, a extremely faint French accent slipping in some syllables and words, but far from the cartoonish exaggeration that the French tend to speak English in. ]

This is a mistake. [ A long pause to suck in some air into her lungs, a shiver audible through her breathing. ] I cannot be here. Not alone-- not without them. Please, my children. I-- I can't leave them with him. Don't do this, please, someone. Take me back. They're alone with him.

[ There is a longer pause now, where she's just breathing. There's a sound which makes it look like she's slumping down on the floor or leaning back, and her voice comes a little muffled as she keeps herself together, possibly a hand over her mouth. ]

You can't do this to them.

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[ The words of confort and hope are not enough for her; then again, nothing will be but the words of promise of her return to her children or her children to herself. There's a slight clink of metal, the handcuffs around her wrists sounding so as she moves her hands to a more comfortable position so not to get chaffed skin (or, well, not as much as they already are) and hold the device better. ]

I don't want to talk [ She has never been a fan of it either. ] I just need to go home, to my kids.

[ Usually, she's more logical, listens closely, but the despair mixed with her natural stubbornness (or determination, the line between these two is thin when it comes to Emilia) are making her disregard the whole "the system is broken." ]

I've already lost my partner, I cannot lose my children too. [ It's not fair. ]

( That sound is weird, but she doesn't comment on it right away. It could be something perfectly innocuous, but if it carries on she might hve to ask. )

I know. This place is bullshit. ( Sure doesn't have her own, but the kids she teaches, looks out for, she feels like more of a parent to them than their real ones, oftentimes.

A sigh. She really hates problems that she can't solve by beating someone bloody, and she doesn't think Oracle would have an answer to this, either. It's frustrating as hell. ) I'd be pissed if I was in your shoes, too. You're not going to hurt any less anytime soon. But you gotta keep fighting. Survive, that way you can get back to your kids.

Survive? What do you think I've been doing all of my life?

[ Her tone is unfair, because Helena doesn't know anything about her and she's still trying to help, but in this situation it feels like a punch to the stomach; all she has been doing is surviving. She has survived a monster attack even though she was trapped under a beam for hours - while still pregnant - and hasn't stopped since, no matter what.

She pauses, takes a deep breath to calm herself down, and resumes talking in a more contained tone of voice. ]

I'm sorry. I'm still shaken by all of this. What are we supposed to do here? [ As you're guessing, she wasn't paying attention to class when she got here. ]

Hey. I get it. This sucks, but don't take that tone with me.

( if there is anything she hates, it's being talked to like she's an idiot. She gets enough of that at home. She's not letting that masked side of her, the Bertinelli temper slip through, but she isn't keen on letting someone act out when she's attempting to help.

Admittedly she'd be having an easier time if it were Emilia's kids and not Emilia herself. Kids are way easier to talk to than adults.

And then there's the guilt of Emilia apologizing, and she just sighs. ) Don't sweat it. It's a lot to take in.

The Initiative has brought us here to try and help win a war, although their recruitment process is sketchy at best. I'd say your priority should just be to keep safe - you don't need to do any missions, just get your head around all this.