[video] January 29, evening

[megitsune]

[The video comes on to a kimono-clad lady who seems to be mid-tirade, hiding in a back alley. She doesn't know how to aim a camera at her face so you get to see her upside down, mostly a chest shot.]

--if I'm not checking the knitting of the bones and nerves he may lose use of his hand. Ken-san, his body is still recovering from fighting that Shishio Makoto! He nearly died and he needs treatment still! Not to mention, I have patients in Tokyo who are waiting for me to return. Furuhashi-san’s baby won’t deliver itself, and she is a first-time mother. Dr. Gensai will need my help.

Are you even listening? [She smacks the mirror with her hand a few times for good measure, frowning angrily.] I went on your "tour" and I don't care what you want me to do. I've had enough of this. You spoiled little "Death God" boy, and all of you brightly-colored-hair devils, you stop playing around with people’s lives. Human beings are not your pawns to control. Return me to that train right now.

[She huffs imperiously and pushes buttons. She thinks she has turned the mirror off, but has actually simply pressed the wrong button. Now she moves off-camera and is muttering to herself in worry and panic.]

Tch. What am I to do...? This can’t possibly be real--

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1/?

[shihandai]

[Eh?]

[shihandai]

[EH?]

[shihandai]

[Why is she here?!]

[Voice]

[tokunagas]

There are plenty of others that wish the same thing you do right now.

Re: [Voice]

[megitsune]

[Megumi is so uncomfortable with this "technology." Where she's from, the clock in the parlor at her friend's house is technology. She isn't sure about the voices coming from the device, it makes her so uncomfortable.]

Is that so, little girl? I wasn't made aware of that. On this "tour" they made it sound as if everyone is happy to be here in this freakshow city.

[ video ]

[kuzuryuusen]

Complain all you want, but it won't get you anywhere.

[and just drinking sake.]

Re: [ video ]

[megitsune]

[Ah, another Japanese, from his speech, but-- WHAT THE HELL is that thing this idiot is wearing around his neck.]

And you would know this from experience?

[ video ]

[perfectorder]

[...spoiled little "Death God" boy? really? then again, he's been called spoiled a lot so he's used to it.

small sigh.]

I apologize for your circumstances, but as much as I wish it were otherwise, it is out of my hands.

However, we do not see any of you as "pawns" nor do I have any desire to ever see anyone as such. We do not force anyone to participate in the war, and it is only through unfortunate...and unforeseen careless circumstances that brought you here. It is possible for you to return, but that is left entirely up to BREW, which is, regretfully, out of my control.

Re: [ video ]

[megitsune]

[Okay, well, he doesn't seem rude. But Megumi is still not convinced.]

Hmph. And what kind of reckless government creates weapons they cannot control? You all should be sorely ashamed of yourselves.

[This issue hits extremely close to home for her, being as how Kenshin has just had to have his life nearly destroyed by fighting a human weapon the government created but could not control.]

[voice]

[dungenessmaster]

Blah, blah, blah. Don't you new people ever take so much as a fraction of a damn second to figure things out for yourselves before throwing a screaming wiggler fit?

Re: [voice]

[megitsune]

I've been here for much more than a fraction of a second, child. And I am most certainly not screaming. I figured enough out to know that there isn't anything I can do to get home on my own-- I'm in a future I don't want. So my only available course of action is to address these Shibusen morons.

video

[seizeyoursouls]

A lot of the new people sure are grumpy...

Re: video

[megitsune]

[Oh my, a real albino. A foreign albino at that. She's only seen them in her university texts, and it isn't the same in black-and-white.]

Can you blame me? I was taken from my darling Ken-san and that idiot man who need me to heal them. [OH THE DRAMA] I can't rest peacefully knowing we're separated.

[wordsgate]

[A woman? In distress? How can he NOT comment?]

Ah...Miss...I don't know if this helps, but I've been told that when we return home, we return at the same moment we arrived, like we never left. So I think your patients should be okay.

[video?]

[megitsune]

Ah! Is that really true? I desperately need that to be true, please tell me, if you're lying?

My companions were gravely wounded, I can't stand thinking that they might suffer or heal incompletely without me to make sure they're treated properly.

[She looks down at her hands in her lap, feeling her eyes getting moist.]

Infection... misalignment of bones... there's so much that might go wrong. I just...

[ video ]

[ryuuhirameki]

[....familiar face ;A; ]

...This one is all right, Megumi-dono. It's been a few months since the fight with Shishio, that it has.

Re: [ video ]

[megitsune]

Ken-san! You! You're here!

Video;

[cursemarked]

[Oh boy. She doesn't quite know what to say at first, before--] Once you're returned home, you return at the exact moment you left. You won't be missing anything and time doesn't march on without you there. I know it's not much of a consolidation, but...

Re: Video;

[megitsune]

So... so another person is telling me, madam. I suppose... that's the best I can hope for.

[But it's disappointing anyway. She hmphs softly.]

[Video]

[usedforcepalm]

I'm sorry, m'am, but there isn't any way to return. Most of the people here have also been taken from their own worlds.

Re: [Video]

[megitsune]

[Oh dear. What could be wrong with this poor child's eyes? Corneal disease perhaps?]

Ah, what a lovely young lady. And so polite too.

So it seems, from what others are telling me.

Video

[willing_sheath]

[It's the woman's clothing that catches Tomoe's attention, and were it not for that she likely would have passed over the post. She wasn't exactly in a position to explain Death City or Shibusen to new comers and with all that she dealt with she didn't particularly want to extend the energy when she knew she would be of no help.]

[But needless to say, she had a soft spot for people who seemed to be from a time before all of this technology--nearly two months later and she was still reeling from that change.]

[So a somber fellow Japanese woman--though she is lacking a kimono, instead wearing a western blouse.]

It unfortunately is all very real--though your outrage is shared by many of us here. [Even the dead ones :/]

Re: Video

[megitsune]

Well then, why haven't you all banded together with pitchforks yet! Honestly, are you all lazing about like slackjawed nosepickers? If there are so many guests-who-are-not-really-guests here, there must be something you can all do together about this. Power in numbers, for gods' sakes.

HI I AM ON TIME

[thrusts]

[sigh.]

[video?]

[megitsune]

Damnation. I knew I did not like this place.