[video/Backdated to the afternoon of the earthquake]

[darkhourdear]

[The video comes on with Phillip filling the screen, and while it looks like he's in an alley, he doesn't look too bothered!]

Hi guys! So, um. Luke and I went to try and figure out what caused the earthquake, but we ran into some bad guys and got in a fight and Luke's kind of upset now.

But the guys were really tough, so does a science person want to see the body to do... science things?

[...Wait. Did he just say body sounding completely unaffected? Sure enough, he moves the camera to show a very queasy looking Luke, next to a very charred dead body.]

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video;

[hollowleg]

[can Shiro look any paler than he is? Well he's managing it somehow]

Holy shit... you... killed that guy!

Video (Several hours later)

[icy_heavens]

[Guess who else looks pretty pale right now? Having to kill the . . . monsters, was kind of one thing. But people? That isn't something that Toushirou has really prepared himself for mentally, for all his tough, no-nonsense attitude.

[Phillip is . . . his weirdly okay self with this. That's a problem for later. But Luke, with the way the body is marked up . . . Holy crap.]

What even happened?

voice

[testsonseashells]

Tell Luke to bring body to LSR clinic. Can examine the body.

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

The heck happened to the dead guy?

voice;

[poisonousflame]

[... Fuck his fucking life why is his potential coworker out with a BODY.]

Hey, Phillip. Do, uh. [How does he even ask this.] Do your parents know where you are right now?

[Video]

[scramasax]

Mmngh -- ...oh, my God. [Visual connection established with that mumbling - too muffled and restrained to be or even think to be overtly horrified...]

- You're er -- ...what - in the world happened, are -- ...was that -- was that - one of you - ?

[In fact in a very large part he's not only expecting but hoping he's right in expecting the answer to be yes.]

[Text]

[dead_black_eyes]

He was... burned to death?

[L's not a detective or anything but it sure as heck looks that way.]

video;

[darkhourdear]

Yeah. [COMPLETELY NONCHALANT.]

Video (Several hours later)

[darkhourdear]

We were trying to find out where the earthquake and we ran into these guys and had to fight them! [Well sort of. Luke said they should.]

voice

[darkhourdear]

Ok! Thank you.

[voice]

[darkhourdear]

We got in a fight.

voice;

[darkhourdear]

[BECAUSE. :D]

I don't think so. We were at school but we left when the earthquake hit.

[Video]

[darkhourdear]

Both of us. [though Luke's portion is definitely more visible.]

[voice]

[darkhourdear]

That and my blob things slashed at him.

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

With what, flamethrowers? Or does someone have fireball now?

voice;

[poisonousflame]

You know they're probably worried about you, right?

[voice]

[darkhourdear]

Luke has fire, yeah.

voice;

[darkhourdear]

Oh. I guess...

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

Just got it back that it went that bad out of control?

voice;

[poisonousflame]

Yeah.

Why don't you ... give them a call, or something.

[voice]

[darkhourdear]

[He sounds kind of puzzled now.] No, he's had it for a while. We were fighting.

voice;

[darkhourdear]

I don't have a cell phone.

[icy_heavens]

They attacked you? [Not that he thinks either of you guys would kill anybody for no reason -- your creepiness about death besides, Phillip -- but he needs details here.]

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

Self defense then?

voice;

[poisonousflame]

... Pay phone?

[Do those even exist anymore?]