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[teacaying]

[ on everyone's video feeds they might see a very pretty, very pale girl sitting down in what appears to be a café in the town. she doesn't appear worried about her surroundings, and seems very calm about the whole situation they're been placed in. it also might give the feeling that she lived here...aside from the camera feed that's placed on her. she seems to be puttering about the kitchen, looking for tea pots and checking the water from the taps... ]

Hmm...

Oh.

It isn't working... how sad.

I wonder if I can get it working somehow...

[ she'll sit down with her empty tea pot, taking out a small pamphlet... ]

I would have liked to eat this with tea and cookies. Oh well...

Comments

[iamanarcissist]

I wouldn't eat it.

[Gabriel's voice is a smooth, bored drawl. The only anxiety he feels about arriving here is that he can't sense Gabe, and none of his messages seem to be reaching him. He taps out another one on his iPhone before flicking his eyes back to the screen of the Ivytwine.]

It's condescending and reads like a bad science-fiction-with-mild-Lovecraft-overtones story, but it does have some useful information in it.

[And then he grins, his sharp teeth glimmering.]

Plus, I doubt it has any nutritional value.

[teacaying]

[ Blythe looks up at the other boy who's answered the communicator, slowly tilting her head before glancing down at the pamplet. ]

Oh...it isn't food?

[ she pauses for a moment before it starts to sink in- ]

Oh...yes. You read these. I remember.

[ she smiles faintly at Gabriel's image. ]

Hello. I'm...Blythe?

[iamanarcissist]

You sound really... uncertain? About that? [His voice mimics hers quite well for a moment there, and then he drops it.]

Gabriel Malone.

[teacaying]

Oh. You sounded just like me. [ she giggles gently. ]

It's just hard to remember if that was my real name before... it sounds right, though, so I tell people it's my name.

It's nice to meet you, sir.

[iamanarcissist]

Nice to meet you, Blythe.

[GOD why isn't Gabe answering his phone? He shoots off another text to him, barely paying attention to Blythe at all.]

[teacaying]

You seem worried. Were you busy before you came here?

[iamanarcissist]

Hmm? [He looks up at her.]

Oh, yes. I was on my way to a concert. I can't contact the people I was meant to be helping out.

[I can't contact myself.]

[teacaying]

That's too bad... I'm sorry I can't offer you any tea to help calm you down, sir.

[iamanarcissist]

Oh, I'm perfectly calm.

[He sounds it, and he even looks it, to an extent. His smile is perfectly charming.]

We'd probably need to check that the Towers are on before we can make any life necessities like tea.

[teacaying]

Oh...you keep trying to talk to them though, don't you?

[ she at least noticed that much. ] You must miss them.

Towers...are those in this little book?

[iamanarcissist]

Mustn't lose hope. [He gives a wry, toothy smirk, and shoots off another text to Gabe's number. Still nothing.]

They're mentioned. Seem to power the place.

[teacaying]

So...I could get water, you said? For tea?

Do you like tea, sir?

[iamanarcissist]

Oh, dunk a bag of earl grey in some hot water for three minutes and I'm on cloud nine.

[Video]

[needahand]

[On the screen a young man appears. He looks at the girl with a kind of disbelief, like she might not be real.]

'Ello? Miss?

[teacaying]

Oh, hello.

[ smile! ]

[needahand]

[Seth fidgets somwhat. He isn't sure how to ask this, after all, it sounds weird.]

Forgive me for my rude bat...

Are you live here?

[teacaying]

No, I lived somewhere else. This is a nice café though, isn't it?

[ blythe...... ]

[needahand]

So... Forgive my rude again bat, you are live here now?

[teacaying]

Aren't we all going to live here now?

[needahand]

Well, I do not know! This is not home si? We can no just take it laying down ey? Surely we must look for explanation?

[teacaying]

Oh... well I don't mind it. I'll help if you'd all like me to, though.

[needahand]

[He thought he was carefree. This girl takes the cake.]

Okay yah thank you. [He says this dismissively fast]

Did you wake up in an apartment?

[teacaying]

Yes. I went for a little walk and found this café though.

[needahand]

There is no people in there? Nothing that is work?

[teacaying]

Oh I saw a few people... a boy peeking into the flower store... and a boy who looked like he was adventuring. He had very pretty eyes.