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C.C. (tsuntsuntsun) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-06-13 12:31:00

Current location:	Sector 3
Entry tags:	c.c., euphemia li britannia, jun kanzaki, lelouch vi britannia, suzaku kururugi

Day 380 [Video/Action][Open]
[ "The rest of your natural life." C.C. wonders how long the technology in this prison was designed to last. The "lush and abundant setting" she wakes up to fills her with a profound sense of unhappiness -- an eternity in a single place isn't what she expected when she made her most recent choices. Will she still be able to find the World of C? Is she going to go back to being all alone, just when she learned the value of not being so?

She's still laying on her back in the middle of what looks like a park, pushing buttons on her communicator to see what it does. Finally, she manages the settings for a video message.

A bored-looking young woman with amber-colored eyes and bright green hair is asking a very important question, fellow prisoners: ]

Is there pizza here?

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	1/? (not video yet) imperious 2016-06-14 12:22 am UTC (link)
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imperious
2016-06-14 12:29 am UTC (link)

[ It shouldn't be a surprise to hear her voice. And that question, too, is so familiar he almost can't stand it. But the question tells him nothing. She could be from the same point in time he is -- or from a thousand years in the future. She could know more than he does, or less, or nothing. Maybe she won't even recognize him. Maybe his face will have slipped away, into the ceaseless passage of time.

That idea -- is a little too much for him, just at the moment. ]

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imperious
2016-06-14 12:43 am UTC (link)

[ He's not alone here. Euphie has done everything she could to make that clear. And Suzaku -- this strange Suzaku, who came here after dropping FLEIJA -- has been... trying, in his own way, much as Lelouch would struggle to admit that out loud.

But the sight of her, of his... accomplice. Makes him more aware of the hole he's had inside, where he's been missing people. ]

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	4/? imperious 2016-06-14 12:46 am UTC (link)
	[ What if she doesn't know him. What if she knows him, but it doesn't mean anything to her. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	5/? imperious 2016-06-14 12:49 am UTC (link)
	[ You're being ridiculous! Ridiculous and pathetic. Just say something. Open your mouth, and say something! ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	6/? imperious 2016-06-14 12:50 am UTC (link)
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	7/8 imperious 2016-06-14 12:57 am UTC (link)
	I see your timing hasn't changed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	8/8 (and the last comment was voice) imperious 2016-06-14 12:57 am UTC (link)
	[ what the hell, Lelouch ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] 1/2 tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-14 01:10 am UTC (link)
	[ The shock shows on her face, and then she looks confused; why didn't she know he was here? What is going on? Or is it an answer to her question about the World of C? Why can't she sense him? ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	[video] 2/2 tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-14 01:12 am UTC (link)
	[ Struggling to get her expression back under control. She mostly manages, but her voice shakes a little. ] That didn't answer my question, boy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[voice] 1/2 imperious 2016-06-14 01:47 am UTC (link)
	[ Well. She knows him. But that -- expression... he's not sure what to make of it. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	[...video] imperious 2016-06-14 01:51 am UTC (link)
	Of course it did. --If you'd arrived the day before yesterday, feeding your pizza habit would have been as simple as asking a robot for assistance. [ His face and voice are... mostly controlled. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-14 01:55 am UTC (link)
	[ ... it's really him, here. Not just a voice and vague presence. ] There's a thing on my ankle. It's too heavy, I can't walk. Come get me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] imperious 2016-06-14 02:54 am UTC (link)
	[ Well that's a ridiculous lie on at least two levels, but Lelouch only huffs softly. ] Where are you? ...Tilt the incomm around. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-14 02:56 am UTC (link)
	[ Well, she's a ridiculous person. She does so, showing a park. ] The communicator says it's "sector three". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	// ENCRYPTED after a point // imperious 2016-06-14 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	[ He knows. It's oddly comforting. ] ...A park in Sector Three. Fine. [ For a moment more he just studies the image of her, thinking -- he's not even sure what. After a moment, mostly because he can, he encrypts the channel. ] Don't do anything -- unusually foolish. [ Yes well-done, that'll go over well! ] ...The anklet is limiting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	// ENCRYPTED // tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-14 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	[ She closes her eyes at the admonition, and keeps them so while she asks: ] Is that why I didn't know you were here right away? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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imperious
2016-06-14 02:03 pm UTC (link)

[ Well! As logical as it is, he's still a little. Taken aback to hear it actually voiced. It was strange enough that she could -- had been able to -- sense Nunnally's presence. ]

...Yes, I'd imagine so. --It comes off after a few days, and then you'll be able to resume your regularly-scheduled stalking.

[ This is. Definitely not coming out right. He pushes a hand through his own hair, and then forces it out: ]

What's the last thing you remember?

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	// ENCRYPTED // tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-14 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	[ Lets his snark roll off her; she isn't in the mood to banter. Not until she sees him in person. ] I need to ask you that, first. [ Tone serious. Talking to Suzaku has made her a little gun shy. ] I know about the Requiem. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	// ENCRYPTED // imperious 2016-06-14 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	[ Draws -- a steadying breath. Good. That's... good. Some of the guardedness eases out of him slowly, but then he murmurs, ] He doesn't. [ With the smallest, softest emphasis on the pronoun. ] [ You're talking to Suzaku, he knows. Privately now. He could hack into that, and under other circumstances he probably would, but... ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	// ENCRYPTED // tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-20 11:24 am UTC (link)
	So it would seem. [ Brief pause. ] What do you remember? [ You didn't answer her question. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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imperious
2016-06-20 12:34 pm UTC (link)

I was dying. [ ...Well. There it is! A -- quick addition: ] As planned. [ Not, you know... just dying randomly. ] [ ...Remembering it is sort of like remembering a dream, at this point. A dream where everything had finally -- fallen into place. No more strife, no more fear. Just the knowledge that he had done everything he needed to, and now everyone he cared for would be... ]

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	// ENCRYPTED // tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-20 12:38 pm UTC (link)
	[ She is quiet for so long, Lelouch might think she's not listening. Or she fell asleep, or something happened to her. ] I'm sure you can move faster than you are without collapsing, Lelouch. Hurry up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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imperious
2016-06-20 12:55 pm UTC (link)

[ --Wasn't expecting that, and his initial response is a startled little laugh. ]

I'm almost there, witch. [ Honestly. ]

[ It doesn't even occur to him that she might be, have been, upset. 16 possibilities left, and in some of them she's angry or bitter or regretful, because in the end he denied her the only wish she can remember having. But upset? No. Upset doesn't enter into his calculations. ]

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	// ENCRYPTED // --- > action? tsuntsuntsun 2016-06-20 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	I'll believe it when I see it. [ She's brought herself up to standing, and is hugging one arm to her side with the other hand. And looking around for him, expectantly. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)