[It's raining and Lelouch is being a homebody, staying indoors and playing chess with himself idly. He's been thinking about this next move for quite some time, and it seems like now is as good a time as any... He flips on the communicator, relaxing and smiling into the video.]


You know, I was just thinking. Who else made secret codes or hand gestures as children? Like a phrase that sounded innocent but meant "Let's go meet outside," or a gesture that meant "Check up on that for me."

Maybe I'm the only one who thought in such complicated terms as an eight-year-old. [chuckling] But it was fun knowing that only we would understand.


[Acumen can hear them over the network, and possibly records the content of everything it translates through video. But unspoken hand gestures and phrases that don't mean what they sound like they mean are much more difficult to uncover in surveillance, aren't they?]

Still nothing.

[The voice is recognizable but the lens of the device is nothing but a blur; a quick flash of colors mixing together like a water painting smeared into something unrecognizable. It's too quick to follow, even rain splattered as the owner dashes off at speeds not humanly possible. There's the flash of blue, dark strands of hair whipping across the lens whenever coming to a halt, only to switch directions.

Finally, the screen comes to a halt once more. The view settles, just a little as the owner of the device abruptly comes to a pause. From around the screen the edges of a blue hood are evident, and it's clear even from the wet glass that Yuuki, as anyone able to have recognized the owner of the device, is above ground, standing within the high branches of a tree. She's in near the clock tower, as it's within view. Her fingers clench into the bark of the tree, just barely visible and she draws a deep, exhausted breath, before leaning forward, wearily.

A beautiful, blue, butterfly gently lands on her hand despite the rain, it's seemingly delicate wings beating softly. She glances toward it before taking a deep breath, and straightening.]

Don't worry. You won't be the only one. I'm sorry about the rain, though.

[Just about anyone can enter the Defense HQ, right? Because that's exactly what Diva's planning to do today. She'll just be in, out, and taking a look around. And she's particularly interested in this... cell that Euphie was hiding in.]