First feather [Video] - Book

[charcoalfeather]

[The network comes to life and focuses on a young woman. She appears to be dressed in a pair of simple pajama clothes and is sitting near a window where the night sky and stars are visible. Snow is lightly falling, and frost clings to the window. If she's cold, the girl doesn't seem to show it.

The screen is somewhere below her, and she is looking down at it nonchalantly for the moment. But soon, the moment passes, and her eyes slowly widen until they're as open as they can go. Then, the screen suddenly, and violently changes, as the girl pushes away from it and scrambles away.

For a brief moment, the screen moves to fast to make out and then falls on the window, the moon hanging full in the sky. It's only for a moment though, as it is picked up once again and turned until it shows the girl's face. She looks shocked to put it lightly.]

I... I can't believe this. ...What the hell is...

...Maybe they were right....[Her face drops briefly and she frowns. Then she perks up again, brushing some short, brown hair from her face.] No, that's stupid. This must be something else at work here.

[Hesitantly, she poked at the screen. Her book was showing her this.]

Hello? Who's doing this? This isn't funny.

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[Text | Handwritten]

[scramasax]

[Only fair to answer the new face's visual post with audio, at the very least - but holds back a verbal "hello" - not going to risk inviting questions to raise any fresh alarm. Gets his pen moving again.]

It's nice meeting you, Rakka!

I see you have already been shown the guide... If have any more questions, I would be happy to see if I can answer them. My name is Anthony. I have been using this network since April.

[Text | Handwritten]

[charcoalfeather]

[Rakka stares at the text. She's sure there's hundreds of questions she could probably ask, but one comes to mind.]

Uh, hi.

How come we're all getting these... pulse things in this city?

[Text | Handwritten]

[scramasax]

[One of the questions that anyone let alone him would be helpless to answer - taps the pen in the air off the paper, figurative wheels spinning and he jots something else to stall for time, or at least establish a place to start - ]

Have you read anything about "Target One" yet?

[Text | Handwritten]

[charcoalfeather]

No, sorry.

There doesn't seem to be anything about it.

[Text | Handwritten]

[scramasax]

There are some people with us who found something below the city, either a bizarre rock formation or a giant living creature. Although we do not know how it relates to us, some others have been told that the people who are looking for those like us are also trying to find that thing... Perhaps it is because we are close to it that things can happen to us.