exsilium | Chapter 1 [video]

[Being from Victorian-era London, Alice has no idea how to even begin working the miniature netbook. It only manages to activate through sheer stroke of luck. With the screen facing upward, viewers can see that this girl has clearly seen better days. Sickly pale skin, disheveled hair, dark circles around her eyes, worn and dirty clothes... Hardly the picture of health one would expect from someone so young. The only part of her that doesn't look ragged and tired would be the pendant of the Omega symbol ( Ω ) she has around her neck.]

Blasted woman made no sense at all. I will certainly not be living here, or have anything to do with their so-called training.

[Underwhelming as she may appear, this girl still has a sharp tongue on her, and a distinctly English accent. She takes a look around, but it’s clear that she has no idea what she’s supposed to be doing. Alice just sighs.]

Out of one nightmare and thrust straight into the unknown. It seems that fortune smiles upon me once more.

[The view moves, as she raises the intended communicator and looks into the monitor.]

And what a remarkably useless item you turned out to be. I’d almost go as far to say that I’d prefer the Cat as opposed to this.

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Wholeheartedly agreed. Though I'm not unfamiliar with the strange, myself. [You have no idea.]

Yeah, me either. That's probably a good thing in a place like this, huh? [ About the only time she'd ever describe what she knows as a positive, but there you have it. It stops everything from being quite as shocking. ] Everything seems pretty normal right now, but there's already been some weird things.

Could you go into further detail? I'd like to know more of what I should be expecting.

[ She frowns. ]

A few days ago, they... did something with people's memories. It was like a dream, but it felt real. [ Because it wasn't a dream at all, but she doesn't want to confront that just yet. There's something in the her tone, the way she moves on quickly, that says she isn't interested in talking about it much. ] I've only been here for a month, so there's probably been a lot more stuff than that. You could try asking some of the others.

Meddling with...

How dare they!

What even made them think they had to right to do something so vile?

[yeah she's pretty peeved about this.]

[ And back to the angryfaces. ]

I think that's how a lot of people feel, honestly. [ Her included. There's really no way to justify anything like that. ]

[all day, every day.]

How did they achieve it on such a large scale? Was there any permanent... damage?

I implore you to tell me as much as you can, Miss Sayaka.

[ Erryday I'm angryfacing. ]

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure nobody got seriously hurt, at least. [ Physically, anyway. ] It was really sudden. One minute everything was normal, and the next...

[ It all went to hell. There's a delay, here, and eventually she sends through a link to this. ]

There was an announcement a few days before it happened. I don't know if it'll help much, but it's the closest thing to an explanation right now.

[I'm angry and I know it.

In any case she at first doesn't really know what to do with the "link". She learns, though!]

A rather poor explanation, but it'll have to do.

[She can't help but laugh in spite of it all.]

Remarkable. I've been sent so far into the 'future' and yet it seems so very little has changed.

[ Sayaka is way too dumb to think that anybody would need an explanation for things. Maybe one day. ]

Yeah, you're right. [ For being more than a thousand years ahead technology-wise, they're pretty damn incompetent. ] It doesn't really matter, though. There's no way to justify something like that.

[ Bitterness? Check. It seemed so incredibly pointless despite what they all went through, and that's what annoys her the most. ]

There never will be any justification. This, I know firsthand.

A pity. Ill-suited for combat as I might be, I had almost found myself willing to support the Initiative's cause.

Right. I mean, I still want to help everyone else, but... [ But that could all be a lie, too. ] They haven't even said how long this will take. I can't stay here forever, even if it's important.

We've all our own matters to attend to, myself included.

It's like they expect us to just forget about everything else. [ Which she'd actually be better off doing, but hey. Stupidity. ]

I've had quite enough involvement with wanting to forget and I'll not be wanting to once again.

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