savetheearth | Fourth Note; Video

[There's a new girl on the Network - or at least, that's what it looks like at first. Two poofy pigtails on either side of her head in a darkish color, and some light, simple clothes that aren't particularly suited for the current weather... She appears to be curled up in an alleyway somewhere, her eyes filled with tears.]

Elly can't see the Network anymore. She told me I can't talk to anyone who can't see the Network, b-but that means I can't talk to her, either!

[Her voice, however - that may be familiar to some. Is that...

Mimi?]

I-I finally figured out how to turn into a human, but now I can't talk to Elly! I wanted-- I wanted to be like her, but...

If I can't talk to her anymore, what's the point-?

[Her voice is stammering, filled with half-sobs, her shoulders bouncing with the effort of trying to keep her breathing even. And with the cold as it is... It's surprising she isn't freezing out there to begin with.

At this rate, it might take a bit before she can explain things more clearly.]

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Where are you?

[She's coming to get her. Now. Or even just coming to give her chocolate and a hot cocoa, because that is how you calm people down, right? She's never been good with words and also worries about her actions, but chocolate and cocoa seem to never fail to help.

...but that the cat could become a human. She's still trying to wrap her head around this, but the voice is so... obvious.]

Are you all right? Do you have somewhere safe to go?

Mimi?

[her voice is soft, the simple question both a request for the confirmation of the girl's identity and her current state. Kara knows that people deal with heartache differently, and as much as she wants to she needs to verify what Mimi wants first before running off to find her]

calm down
you ok

Ieeh --

Voice is soft. Hesitant more than overtly comforting at least to begin with. Syllables are short.] ...You're the cat!

[He usually doesn't use voice, but...]

Uh, hey. Don't be sad. It'll be okay...

[Fili's squinting at the video for a long time before he speaks, very hesitantly.]

Are you...Mimi? The cat from the dead district?

[His first worry? To hear that Elly has gone off-network. She's really the first person he officially met from it, despite having access for a long time before she had. And she's his friend. Or was. Is she still? He doesn't know now, since they met through the network and everything.

[But eventually he pulls himself out of this contemplation of future social confusion and realizes that he recognizes that voice, even if the face is something he wouldn't have expected.

[He normally doesn't go for video, but he'll do it here just to make sure she recognizes him.] Mimi, right? It's Jeffrey; we talked once, when you first came on network and I'm a friend of Elly's. Do you know where you are? I can find a coat to bring to you and everything, but you should really get somewhere indoors.

Hey ... I'm sure there is a point.

[ Pause. ]

Aren't you cold?

[She gives a wet sniffle, rubbing at one eye with the palm of her hand.]

I'm n-next to the apartment.

[Helpful as always. But at least it seems to occur to her this time, because she shifts a bit, looking to the side.]

Th-there's a sign with a lady on it, and it's green. It's a circle. It smells like that gross stuff Elly drinks.

[She squints at this before shaking her head, tucking her chin behind her knees.]

I don't know how to read that.

[She does raise her head a little when she hears that.]

K-Kara?

Show me.

[She almost doubts that it will be useful, but if it isn't. she can ask the ...not cat anymore, and that puts her on edge a bit, but still kind of cat and that makes it easier.]

[She has to rub away the tears to look at it properly, but eventually she just makes an annoyed sound.]

I c-can't read that. Stop using it!

[She gives a small, shaky nod.]

Y-- yeah. So?

[She was so excited when she first did it. But now that Elly can't see it...

Why did she even bother?]

I-it's not okay! I w-wanted to show Elly I could be a person too!

[Oops, she got a little loud there. With a frown, she tucks her head behind her knees, curling up all the more.]

[She nods, if wearily. She wants to talk about Elly, but everyone wants to talk about her new power instead.

If the situation was a little different, she probably would have been excited. But as it is, her voice is flat.]

I c-can turn myself human now.

I guess congrats isn't really the right words to use here... [Because really, what do you say to a cat who can now turn into a human?]

You said you lost your friend Elly? I remember you mentioning her before.

[Oh... She talked to this guy once, with Elly.

...]

I d-don't want to go back to the apartment.

[Because then she has to pretend she's just a dumb cat around Elly and she hates it.]

I have f-fur.

[Even if it doesn't look like it right now.]

I only wanted to l-learn 'cause then I could g-go places with Elly. Like a human.

Elly's...? [ Oh. Oh, shit. ] Mimi, did you change in front of anyone? Do you need me to come find you?

Yes, it is me. Do you wish for company?

[well, that's one question down. she really hopes that she'll let her help, because this is breaking her heart]

I thought you were! I was simply checking, dearie. [Though the other reactions the poor dear's getting would seem to confirm it.]

Please tell me you have somewhere to go! [Something in her whinny that could've sounded like a laugh - more tentative second-hand hysteria.] Your first priority should be getting yourself safe! Hide out for a while and - now your master does still have friends here, does she not? Surely they can help you sort this out iffff -

[If?]

...Say - you said that you... "figured out"? Out to turn into a human. Didn't you?

...Nn.

[She nods, slowly getting to her feet and cutting the feed by dusting away the numbers. However, a picture will show up again once she finds some cardboard and scratches them in again, pointing it up at the sign.

It's... a Starbucks, looks ilke.]

She's my o-owner. She used to be able to see this thingy even before I could.

[But now she can't, and that means Mimi can't speak with her. Not anymore.]

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