accidental video:

[charring]

[For anyone that's in the Glass City, this will come off static-y as hell. Images will distort, freeze and audio will come off wrong. Words will be missing and cut off at the wrong times. But it is clearly Charlie and Ed in a van, checking over blankets secured over windows. Ed's checking it frequently and Charlie's swatting his hands away.]

Would you stop that?! [It's Charlie. She sounds exasperated. She gets an annoyed look from Ed, a look that does fuck-all to hide the worry.] You keep checking it and it'll end up falling. Leave it be.

How do I know you even bothered to secure it right to begin with? [Ed. Still sounding annoyed.]

You could try trusting me, you know.


You---I don't want to. [There's the sound of a metal door creaking open, a hiss and video of Ed flinching away from a small shaft of sunlight and Charlie speaks again, picking up her device. The door slams and Charlie notices the device is running.]

Any explanation for what's going on, here?

(ooc: Red = Evil Ed. Black for Charlie. This is before she and Evil find the rest of the caravan of magic and ineptitude BUT SHE WILL FIND THEM! after she and ed raid a few buildings and flirt argue more.]

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[video]

[iwatchtjhooker]

[It's clear--Sam's in the desert, too, but he seems to be alone.

And alarmed.]

Charlie? Get away from him!

[video:]

[charring]

What? [Charlie looks at Sam, briefly surprised.] Why? I mean, I know why. I'm not dumb.

[video:]

[iwatchtjhooker]

He's a vampire.

[valentineluke]

[In Glass City. Reception from 'the other side' is terrible, but he's able to interpret the situation: BAD. Ed's well being is in the human hands of one who is probably very inexperienced on vampiric matters.

Important information is kept brief and repeated slowly several times until transmission gives out.]

"Anything - that - bleeds - will - do".

[charring]

[Terribly inexperienced. Save for the three instances where Ed tried to eat her and she almost set him on fire for it. Pyrokinesis is a handy trick. She manages to send back the following, not quite taking a page from Valentine's book as she does so;]

...new -ampire. Stubborn as fu- about eating habi-s. What do you rec---end?

[valentineluke]

[Sorry, Charlie. Starkist Luke not receiving message. All static on his end.]

[SPAM JUST BECAUSE]

[socoolbrewster]

[Ed doesn't want to be up. He shouldn't be, but he didn't trust that the rescue attempt was sound, and now she's scampering around and there's no dirt to burrow into, and sleep, as tempting as it is, is functionally impossible.

He's cranky. He can't help it.]

You couldn't have waited to get me until it was at least dark out? I was fine.

[Yeah, okay. Sure. In a crumbling city. Right.]

[action! yay! these two are an old married couple. my god.]

[charring]

[Ed. Don't be such a boob. And don't dare question why Charlie rescued you. She doesn't get it, either. She listened to him whine for a moment, eyebrows furrowing in frustration.]

Fine? You thought you were fine? [She scoffs and points out the window a moment.] That's where I found you. There's almost nothing left of where you were. Just wide open space for the sun to get you. Try telling me you were fine again.

[action! they areeeee. and it's wonderful.]

[socoolbrewster]

[IF HE LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW IT BURNS, MCGEE. Really, now. Are you TRYING to kill him?]

I had a blanket. I would've been fine.

[Maybe. Hopefully.

...Probably not. SILENCE, WOMAN. He's just going to be mutinous and petulant over here.

And now he's hungry. Dammit.]

[Video]

[tangledintower]

Charlie?

Where are you? Are you in the sand city somewhere?

[Video]

[charring]

I am. I'm near my old apartment building. Rapunzel, where are you? I'll come and find you, okay?

[Video]

[tangledintower]

I'm not sure where I am...I was trying to find the tea shop, but it's hard to figure out where anything is, what with the sand...

[video]

[ruthless_hunter]

You're out here too, huh, Charlie?

Re: [video]

[charring]

Yep. With a lovely friend. [Though, it should be obvious by the tone that this particular person is not a friend.] He's being whiny.

[video]

[ruthless_hunter]

Drag along, huh? Can't say I've never had to put up with one'a those.

audio;

[likesavantgarde]

[the message is coming from the desert, if the reception is anything to go by.] Anything of this magnitude ever happen before?

audio;

[charring]

[At first, there's arguing with Ed. Again. Apparently he's made a grab for Charlie's device and she is Offended.] Get your damn hands---I DON'T CARE IF IT LOOKS COOLER THAN YOURS!

[And then she calms down.] Sorry about that. I'm traveling with a big kid suffering from Shiny Object Syndrome. Uh...last year in September, I believe, all the color vanished from the City but that ended fast. This, clearly is significantly worse. Damn problematic, when compared to missing a few shades of red and blue.

video;

[beifongbandit]

You okay, Char? There's sand -- the City's practically all sand, now.

video;

[charring]

I've been better, Toph. Where are you? I'm going to try to find you. I have Rapunzel and a few others and a big van to drive people around in.

video;

[beifongbandit]

Like... a car thing? I don't think wheels would be good in this sand.

video; probably just as static-full

[oceantrauma]

Charlie-san! What's happening? I can't make half of this out.

[He's worried, confused in Glass City, and now he's not even sure what's happening to his friends.]

video;

[charring]

Ken! Are you in the desert? [She's careful when she speaks, trying to keep herself calm and slow and enunciate properly.] No. You're coming in terribly. Must be elsewhere. You okay?

[Really, she has no clue how well any of that went through at all. She hopes at least some of it gets to the kid.]

video;

[oceantrauma]

No, not in a desert. [He got that much of it. So she's in a desert. He feels isolated and upset.]

[He didn't catch her question but:] Are you well? Please take care.

[And likewise, he's unsure how much of that went through. There has to be a way to find out. Something he can do. He's not going to wait around, but start looking and trying to figure this out.]

[aperfectthird]

Charlie? Are you all right?

[charring]

Percy! [God, is she glad to hear his voice.] I've been better. How about you? Where are you?