step one ❚ a flight on clipped wings ( video )

[steelettos]

( the only reason you're seeing this feed is because lenalee has accidentally fallen on the device. she hasn't got a clue that it's been turned on and that it's currently filming the scenario before her -

which is a family room of sorts with the npc owners of said family room standing all around her, a mixed expression of surprise, disbelief and wtf-are-you-doing-here on their faces. above them, a great hole in their ceiling, much thanks to her activating her boots midair. not that it helped, but at least it missed light fixture. )

A, ah - ( nervous chuckle from the person who's lying on top of a ruined center table, whose usually prim uniform is now covered in dust and debris. ) - I'm terribly sorry to barge in. I usually use the door and I, I promise I'm not a thief -

( hastily said, with hands raised even.

she looks around, giving the device a glimpse of her briefly panic-stricken face, then turns back to the house owners. ) - But may please I borrow your phone?

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[vengefully]

...What were you going to say?

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[steelettos]

.. I only need to use it once, just to tell my brother that I'm fine and he shouldn't -

[steelettos]

( she laughs then shakes her head again. ) But I guess it's really not possible at all.

[vengefully]

[...oh. well he can understand that at least] Time stands still while we're here so people back home don't notice.

[steelettos]

Time stands still ... ( she mulls on that for a second. ) Are you sure?

[vengefully]

Yeah, I'm sure. I've left The City before only to come back here but when I did go back it things were exactly as I left them and it was like I was never gone in the first place.

[steelettos]

( !! )

So it's means there's a way out then. How did you manage to leave? Did you remember the City when you got back?

[vengefully]

If I knew that I wouldn't still be here. [it's obvious he's still very frustrated over that fact] I didn't even remember this place when I returned.

[steelettos]

Sorry ... ( since she asked the wrong question. ) So I guess it's more or less the whim of these deities as to whether or not they want to keep us here then.

I still don't understand why.

[vengefully]

It was— but the deities were recently overthrown so it could be something else still bringing people here. I still haven't been able to make much sense of it.

[steelettos]

Deities that can be overthrown ... ( she keeps hearing that and it sounds too suspicious for her. ) Those who overthrew the deities, which side are they on?

[vengefully]

They have said they're on our side and are working on getting us out but after being here so long it's hard to believe.

[steelettos]

But I've only arrived - which means someone is still bringing people in, right? And for reasons unknown.

( her can't-trust-people side is showing. then again, everything's too suspicious. )

[vengefully]

Yeah, that's right— the cause is still unknown too though.

[steelettos]

.. I wonder if that ticking noise has anything to do with it.

( she's been hearing it since arriving but never really - paid too much attention to it. until it's starting to hurt her head. )

[vengefully]

You mean the clock? It does that when you're on your own.

[steelettos]

Clock?

[vengefully]

The one in the center of the City, that's where it's coming from.

[steelettos]

( she's seen that but - )

A clock isn't usually this - loud unless you're inside the tower itself, no matter how big it is.

[vengefully]

Normally you'd be right but that's not the case with this one.

[steelettos]

What do you mean? Is there something else unusual about it aside from the noise it makes?

[vengefully]

It is said to be connected to this place probably counting down to something.

[steelettos]

( count down to what? she's wondering now if it's similar to an innocence. )

.. Is there a way to access to it? Or find out more about it?

[vengefully]

Though the underground. It's guarded by a barrier though.

[steelettos]

( underground. barrier. right. debating now as to whether or not she'll go see it... sighing. )

Is there anything in this City that we're allowed to have or know about?