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?

Comments

[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?

[vengefully]

Such as what exactly?

[steelettos]

Such as why we're here in the first place. I think we should at least be allowed that much.

[vengefully]

No, unfortunately that's still unknown aside from theories people had about it.

[steelettos]

See? We're not even given that explanation. We're trapped anyway, as everyone has said; it's not like finding it out would change anything.

[vengefully]

Well it wouldn't unless they let us leave or it happens randomly.

[steelettos]

Which isn't going to happen soon, from what it looks like.

[vengefully]

Yeah unless they really are working on getting us out.

[steelettos]

I'm guessing you have doubts about it too.

( oops wait she said 'too'. )

[vengefully]

[Honestly he thinks it's smart that she doesn't buy it either because thinking otherwise is pretty naive] Yeah, of course. Especially if people are still coming here and the curses aren't stopping either.

[steelettos]

It just feels - strange, in my opinion. ( oh hey new term. )

Curses?

[vengefully]

Yeah. No one else has mentioned that to you yet?

[steelettos]

( headshake. )

They're not as bad as they sound, are they?

[vengefully]

Sometimes. The effects vary quite a bit in what they do but they typically last a day until midnight.

[steelettos]

What do they do exactly?

( curses for her ... are well. kinda like allen's scar. )