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cape_kore2014-01-02 05:06 pm
blackmagus) wrote in cape_kore2014-01-02 05:06 pm
013 ✳ day 149 ✳ audio
[She isn't showing her face over the network, but still, Fortescue's voice sounds almost as bad as her numerous injuries. It wobbles every so often, from the abuse it's taken, and she can't even drum up the emotion to be angry about her lack of control over it. It is what is is.]
Hello, Science Center. Miss me? [Fortescue holds the phone away from her face, for a moment, to cough. She might sound dry, but she really is grateful to be back. Very grateful.] Had this place let me remember, I would have been able to return the favor.
...I don't want to inconvenience anyone, but I'm not... especially mobile, and the canteen is quite a distance from my room. If anyone feels like being generous, I wouldn't mind a snack. [Or maybe more than a snack, but she doesn't feel worthy enough, anymore, to ask for more than that. What is she, aside from a person who failed in her most basic duties as a sister?
She almost asks for alcohol, too, just for the hell of it, but she doesn't. She cuts the feed after a quick,]
Thank you.
Hello, Science Center. Miss me? [Fortescue holds the phone away from her face, for a moment, to cough. She might sound dry, but she really is grateful to be back. Very grateful.] Had this place let me remember, I would have been able to return the favor.
...I don't want to inconvenience anyone, but I'm not... especially mobile, and the canteen is quite a distance from my room. If anyone feels like being generous, I wouldn't mind a snack. [Or maybe more than a snack, but she doesn't feel worthy enough, anymore, to ask for more than that. What is she, aside from a person who failed in her most basic duties as a sister?
She almost asks for alcohol, too, just for the hell of it, but she doesn't. She cuts the feed after a quick,]
Thank you.
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[It's hard to shake the feeling that you were gone for a long time, even if you've only been gone a few days on one side. It's been a long three years, for her. Or maybe too short, depending on how one views a war.]
A resident angel's peered at me, at least.
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He dealt with the more severe injuries I had. Everything else will heal over time. I didn't want to bother anyone.
[She's not used to being the injured one.]
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[ Are they friends? They could be. Fortescue had helped her when she'd arrived ]
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[It's touching, all the same. Fortescue weighs being seen like this, and offering a bridge toward that friendship.]
You're welcome to come by if you want someone physical to talk to. I'm not exactly a pretty picture, though.
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[ She certainly wouldn't mention anything, except maybe it looking like it hurts ]
You got a room number? Or description. I've done a scout of the place a couple of times.
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[She's still feeling jumpy.]
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[ And the feed goes quiet for a while. Ten minutes later there's a couple of knocks before Emma opens the door ]
You in here? [ Just in case ]
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Yes, I'm in here.
[She smiles, trying not to feel too self-conscious about her determined black eye and other bruises. The magic deprivation is aggravating the more minor injuries she still has.]
Didn't have too much trouble, I take it?
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[ Like when she'd first looked around. The corridors still moved but she was taking that more in her stride now ]
You sure you don't want someone else looking at all of that?
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[By which she means, she just tends to drink through injuries now.]
So, have you been all right, here?
[Might as well find out if anything weird happened while she was gone.]
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[Fortescue assumes not much.]
I don't know if anyone will ever figure this place out.