accidental video:

[victoria_stay]

[The device is upside down. The room it shows belongs to someone who really loves to draw. There are pictures everywhere that were clearly drawn by a kid and said child is offscreen somewhere, coughing a lot.]

Ugh.

[She doesn't like this at all. Bare feet rush past the device, more coughing and some sneezing thrown in for good measure and a tin of colored pencils hits the floor. The owner of the pencils and the aforementioned feet appears on camera long enough to clean up the mess before they disappear again.

For a moment.

Victoria's face appears on screen and this time, it's clear she's aware the device turned on.

She's paler than usual and looks tired, hair a mess and her nose is a bit red from frequent contact with a tissue.

Quietly, she reaches over with one multi-colored hand and switches the feed off but not before there's another fit of coughing from a kid who quite obviously has a cold.

Comments

Re: [Video-ish:]

[victoria_stay]

Just a couple weeks.

You?

[Video-ish: sorry for the delay! ^^;]

[theonewhodied]

A little over three months.

I didn't— [Another cough.] Think this place would take in someone so young... [Never mind that he looks like he's in his early-to-mid-teens, at least he's old enough to fend for himself. This he finds rather cruel.]

[Video-ish:]

[victoria_stay]

That's a long time.

[Cue mildly worried face. And then some coughing of her own.]

[Video-ish: late, I apologize. ^^;]

[theonewhodied]

It's fine, there's nothing for me to— return to. [His throat is getting kind of dry, speaking is becoming a little troublesome.]