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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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They do! But...well, I'm kind of well-known in my world, so it's not really fair or appreciated if I enter.

What does popularity have to do with it...?

People know about my appetite. It's...well, one of the titles I'm known by is the High School Girl Detective. The other is...

{She grimaces.}

Well, it's the Piggish Detective.

[Sasha winces. He's not been the target of cruel nicknames, but his friends have.]

No one would want to compete with you, I see.

Even in international competitions?

I'm very well-known.

[Sasha is silent for a second.]

And here I thought I had notoriety.

Well, one of the murderers I uncovered was an internationally acclaimed, incredibly famous singer. And...well, my partner arranged things so I ended up unveling the truth during a live broadcast of a concert being streamed worldwide. And that was just near the beginning of my career.

{And just the tip of the weirdness that is her life, she doesn't say.}

That would do the trick. I've never been on television, and I'd like it to stay that way.

Good plan. Very, very good plan. That sort of attention just brings trouble.

{And fans, and stalkers, and lots and lots and lots of cases, and fake scandals...}

Have you been able to escape the attention here?

Yes, thankfully. Here I'm just another detective at the Agency. There are only a few people who know about that.

That's good. You're still in your element that way.

Yeah! We work with the Watch a little too; they're another 'guest'-founded organization. It's sort of like a police force. They run patrols inside the city at different times in different zones.

This place doesn't have its native police force?

This city was originally based around a school for a much smaller number of Meisters and Weapons, who were natives. Students. BREW was activated when it basically devolved into a world-wide war and reinforcements were needed. And that's us. The Watch is Shibusen-sanctioned, but they don't have the man-power to fully stock it themselves, when they have to deal with witches and Kishin and Madness outbreaks all over the planet.

[Sasha sighs quietly and scratches his temple with the handle of his fork.]

What a mess...

Just wait until you take your first mission out of the city and feel Madness for the first time. Having a partner with you heops block most of it out, but...

...But what?

You can still feel it, a little.

{Yako especially is very weak to it. She has to cling to her Meister like a limpet during missions.}

[Sasha hesitates before asking his next question:]

What does it feel like?

I don't know if it's the same for everybody. But for me it's like...

{She pauses, and then wraps her arms around herself.}

It's like drowning while the darkest pieces of you, the ones you lock away or try to stomp out, rise up and try to take over.

It sounds like something I won't be able to brace myself for until I experience it.

Sometimes there are little field trips where we're offered the chance to go into contained area's of Madness with Shibusen supervision to try and strengthen our resistance. But everybody's trying to get the city put back together, so I don't know when that might happen again.

Hmm. [Interesting.]

I wish I could help, but in my state right now I'd just get in the way.

Don't worry. You aren't the first person to arrive hurt. Just focus on resting and getting better, okay?

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