[Takami does not reveal his name, but just believes that it is necessary to ask this simple question. He disguises his voice by speaking at a lower pitch than he usually does, although he is sure that he is fallible, it doesn't hurt to gather some information.]

Is killing justifiable? Please justify your claim regarding said matter.

If anyone is curious as to why I am asking, I am merely gathering data. If you do not wish to have your thoughts viewed by anyone else, I am capable of making conversations private. The technology here is slightly more enhanced than mine back home, but it is manageable.

[It's early in the morning and Al is outside with some chalk. He's carefully drawing circles on the ground and practicing his alchemy, making little toys like a small statue of Den, a train car, a tiny house, some toy soldiers... When he's done, though, he transmutes them back into the floor since he doesn't want to get into trouble for 'defacing property'.

Then Al makes another circle, this time transmuting a one foot tall suit of armor out of the ground, modeled after the one his dad had in his study where he and Ed started to learn alchemy.

He closes his eyes, taking a deep breath.] Okay... You did it once before...

[Al opens his eyes, a determined look in them as he places his hands against the circle and concentrates. Blue markings light up around the armor for a moment, then fade away. A slow grin comes onto Al's face as he leans back, watching the little armor take a few steps forward on it's own.]

I did it!

[He lets out a delighted laugh as the armor does a few punches and kicks into the air, then sets off walking, changing directions every so often.]

Wonder how far I can make it go...

[Off the armor goes, straight in one direction, not stopping this time.]

[You can see a blue-eyed brunette, turning her head on all sides, confused and scared. She was wearing a hospital linen, and by her appearance, it seemed she went through some kind of labour, so she looked fatigued. Realizes she's not in the hospital anymore, neither in school or at home, but in some kind of prison. Suddenly notices some kind of translucent screen over her eyes is on, placing one hand on the headset that was in her ear. After knowing her crimes, Adrianna makes a heavy sigh of frustration, her head down for a moment but recovering instantly, giving such a strong glance and starts to scream.]

Fine!!! So what if I was on drugs??? I'm clean now!!! I'm a different person!!!

[Then... some tears are noticed in her eyes, finally falling through her cheeks.]

... And...

[Her voice could scarcely articulate any words, mumbling in the process. But she finally managed to speak with bated breath.]

And... I knew I wouldn't be a good mother... I'm too young for that...

[She covers her face with both hands, sobbing without restraint.]

[Sakamoto is lying on the floor in the middle of a hallway after dropping Reira off. A day of being sober really did a number on him- Usually, Sakamoto didn't think very much, unless he was negotiating a business deal. And even then, his mind was very focused on the particular issue at hand (that too the big picture, Mutsu handled the details), and he rarely had time to think for himself. As much as he tried to keep thoughts of his head because thinking too much really bothered him, it hadn't work as well as usual without the alcohol clouding his brain a little. And even then, the fact that he was able to fully recount the encounter with Reira, for the most part, was a sign that despite drinking some heavy sake he hadn't been able to drink nearly enough for him to not be able to forget the night entirely.

But he was asleep now, at least, with a few incriminating lipstick stains on his chest and the edge of his shirt.]

[Anyone who's outside can clearly hear the masked man singing, his voice is somewhat sad and reminicent. He's holding a rose with a black ribbon tied around the stem and keeps it close to him as if letting it go would be the death of him.

He brings his hand up to adjust his mask slightly and with out realizing it hits a button which activates the video feed, making the song audible to anyone paying attention.

At the end of the song, he leans against a tree and slowly sinks down until he's sitting on the ground with his head in his hands making it look almost as if he's crying.]

(OOC: The song he's singing is called No One Would Listen, it was deleted from the movie for time restraints and I thought it would be a good one to have him sing here. Here's a link to it :)

No One Would Listen)

[The sound of a frantic, angry, cursing man can be heard through the communicator. His words aren’t very clear, but what can be made out sounds a lot like “Christine” and “that damn Persian”.

The man is pacing around, trying to figure out what just happened and where he was, paying no attention to the fact that the answers were in front of him, coming down from the headset on him.]

How can this have happened? Christine was just in front of me, my hands were around her neck and~

That damn Persian tried to warn me not to do anything stupid with her and now look what I’ve gotten myself into!

[He trailed off, not wanting to admit what he had just been about to do. Finally, with his rant coming to a pause, he notices the fact that his mask had been replaced without his realizing it along with the headset he was now wearing.]

What is this thing? Some sort of futuristic letter?

[He begins to read the words in front of him and begins to laugh maniacally.]

An asylum?

They’re just now feeling the need to bring me here, when I’m about to kill one girl for taking off my mask? How ridiculous!

[Erik is quite aware that the fact that he was about to kill Christine isn’t funny, but rather the fact that he was sent here now rather than when he was in Persia, killing merely because the khanum was bored, was what he found to be utterly hysterical. ]

(OOC: It has been brought to my attention that not everyone may have read my OOC post for Erik's intro. While I was only about to find icons that had the play and movie versions of him, he looks like he's described in the books. This means that rather than having a half mask like in the icons, he has a full mask with only his mouth showing from the bottom.)