soul_campaign | Oдин / Video // Aпрель 8

[Good morning, Death City! Have an injured, unfamiliar teenager on your network this morning!]

I have a few questions.

[Gee, someone sure is to the point.]

First of all: Why do the sun and moon have faces?

[This, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind irritability that comes up when you don't get a good night's sleep. He would have a hard enough time just trying to get asleep considering that yesterday he showed up in a place half-way across the world (as far as he knows) instantaneously without any warning and a barely comprehensible excuse. But the feeling that someone was watching him a little too intently all night sealed the deal, and now Sasha is functioning on the half-hour of sleep he managed to get right before dawn.]

Second: Why is everything around here named so morbidly?

I know America is supposed to be the land of the backward, but could you at least tone it down for the newcomers? Sudden spacial displacement is jarring enough to begin with, trust me.

Third...

[He lets out a disheartened sigh.]

I'm trying to get to the clinic to get some stitches looked at. Two sets of conflicting directions have led me to...[He looks over his shoulder, and continues flatly:] "Death City Heights". [He turns back to the communicator.] So if someone could show me there, I'd appreciate it.

[The request is followed by a long, awkward silence of staring blankly at the communicator, then finally he mutters:]

Я говорю с зеркалом.

[And that's when his message ends.]

[OOC: Translations of Russian can always be found by hovering over the text!]

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[well, very one else seems to be taking care of your other questions, so...]

Are you Russian?

Yeah. I'm from northern Siberia.

I suppose this is quite a change for you, then. Вы предпочитаете говорить на русском языке?

[he's always been able to speak any language. some do come easier, though, and russian is one of them, if only because of the members of SEELE that hailed from there.]

It is, and I can say very few things have been pleasant about it.

I have no preference.

[wow, hi grumpy.]

I am sorry that your experience has been...less than enjoyable this far. But this place is not truly bad. It is a world of second chances, and ironically enough, life.

[Grumpy would be Sasha's middle name if it wasn't Nikolaevich.]

So I've heard. At least that kind of technology is on our side this time.

[whatever "our side" is...]

What kind of technology? BREW?

If that's what's bringing people new life, yeah.

I suppose that is within its powers. Some people that are brought here come from after they've died in their own worlds. [including him.] But BREW has never revived any that died here.

...So it brings people back just to use them, but once they've proven themselves they're unworthy, it doesn't bother.

[grumpy and pessimistic. nice.]

It is not like that. From what I understood of their explanation, BREW is a wish-granting machine. It may be omnipotent, if that is true, but it can only grant a single wish at a time, and it is currently bringing in soldiers to help grant the wish of winning this war. So bringing back the dead may be within its power, but it can only currently do so to gather more forces.

[Would you believe me if I said he's had better days?

Still, he's silent during Kaworu's explanation, taking a deep breath at the end and letting it out slowly.]

...I can't pretend that I understand the forces at work here. Any of them.

Some things are beyond man's comprehension. That is nothing I be ashamed of.

I find it more frustrating than shameful.

Then let that motivate you. Even if the struggle to understand is futile, that strife is part of being human.

...

[Dude, are you like, out of this world or something. ~~Don't answer that~~]

Maybe motivation will come after I get some decent sleep.

[sort of.]

Then get some rest. Those in charge here are very generous, and they will provide you with a place to live and food to eat.

Ah--they pay for the food, too?

Not anything extravagant, of course, but they make sure that no one will starve. I suppose they feel guilt for having dragged unwilling participants into their war, so they will not expect their guests to pay for the basic necessities of living.

That's a reasonable expectation.

It is reasonable to ask people to acquire enough of an income to survive on their own in an entirely new world they did not even ask to be brought to?

It does feel a little less like I've been kidnapped and more like I've been the victim of a freak incident.

Because it is a freak accident. BREW may have more or less kidnapped all the visitors here, but those with Shibusen do not seem to have intended it at all, and it certainly serves their conscience better to treat their accidental guests well than to leave them to fend for themselves.

I see...

[But...]

How many of us are there? How do they fund our living expenses?

[he has to pause to consider that, but in the end he only shrugs.]

There are a good number of us, enough that they have several apartment buildings set aside just for our use. But the buildings are nowhere near full and I do not have a decent estimate beyond that, so you would need to ask someone with records of such things. Shibusen, or perhaps the Watch.

I cannot say how they pay for it all, though, especially in the middle of a desert where food is not produced so easily. That is another question for Shibusen.

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