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[The video begins abruptly, when a young woman with red hair seems to step on the communication device. She doesn't seem to notice the device is on, or that it's even there. She's too busy raging to a floppy eared dog sitting on the edge of the fountain, walking around in a circle, hands in the air.]

--is the absolute LAST time I'm taking the train, I swear! I thought we were going to have a nice, safe train ride...actually, no, forget the train. This is the last time I listen to Dimitri! This could've all been avoided if he'd made sure our papers were fine, but nooo, they're absolutely blue, don't worry about a thing, Your Grace! Ha! And then, he thinks going and hiding in the baggage car is a good idea? Great idea, Dimitri, you nearly got us all killed!

[She makes an irritated growl before sitting next to the dog, scratching its ears idly before sighing.]

So...where exactly are we, anyway? We did jump from a moving train car, so...
[She moves to check her pulse, before frowning.]

Right, nevermind, we're not dead...and this is definitely not Russia...

[She sighs again, before smirking slightly at the dog.]

How much do you want to bet this is Dimitri's fault somehow?

[It's only now that she seems to notice the black communication device lying on the ground. Frowning, she moves to pick it up, bring it right up close to her face, staring at it in confusion.]

And what the heck is this thing...

[She pokes at it a few times, trying to figure out what this weird little black thing is and why it was just lying around.]

Hello?

[And as she continues poking at it, she manages to cut off the video feed.]

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Greetings!

[AAAH HOLY CRAP THE BOX TALKED BACK.]

Wh--who said that? Who's there?

[She's got a dog and she is not afraid to throw him at you, random disembodied voice!]

[ Oh wow, that was a loud hello. ]

Um...

You don't have to shout into the device, Miss.

[This thing is talking back to her. Why is it talking.]

I'm not shouting!! What are you, anyway?

[Time to poke the magic talking box some more!]

It really is such a strange, cumbersome device, isn't it? Regardless, you'll soon find it useful.

[ Because that's what it made for? ]

Not what. Who. [ Stop poking the screeeeen! ] This is a communication device. Just. Press that green button for the video, please.

[She's from 1926 Russia, cut her some slack. Still, she does push the green button, turning on the video.]

...Well, now that's just weird.

[She seems to finally understand the video bit of this thing, anyway...but she still looks very lost, poking at the screen a bit.]

I don't understand how this thing works. How can I see and hear you through it, when you're not here or in this thing?

[ W-Well how is he supposed to know?!! X( ]

Um. I guess it is. [ He sketches an awkward wave. ] Hello. I'm Li Shenshung. It's nice to meet you.

[ ...or is it?... ]

[She's still very suspicious of the strange magic box. Magic usually ends in bad things, after all. But she gives a hesitant nod and wave.]

...Anya. Nice to meet you too. Where is this place? It's not Russia.

Really, you are a simple-minded— [Hold your tongue, Naoi. Be nice to the new girl, you had a bad time with this new technology. He sighs.]

Have you heard of cameras?

Yeah, I know what a camera is. But they take still photos, not moving pictures...you need a special camera for those, and they're bigger and use film. This thing is way too small.

Plus, moving pictures don't talk back to you.

These are new cameras. From the future.

... or rather, it'd be more accurate to say that you come from the past. You're the anomaly here, not the camera.

[Naoi's idea of being nice.]

Jeez, way to make a girl feel welcome...

[Wait, she's from the past? What...?]

Wait, what year is this?

[Here, Anya! Have a screaming red guy!]

PUPPY!

I am informed we are in the early 2000's, if you'd believe it.

[OH GOD SCREAMING RED GUY!!!]

AAAAAAAAH!!

[She immediately throws the device to the ground...where it's picked up by Pooka.]

The early...what?

[Oh no. That's impossible. Its 1926. Not 2000 whatever. She's having a bit of culture shock right now, please excuse her as she goes to collapse on the edge of the fountain.]

D-don't faint!

[Oh, how he wishes it were still the mid-twenties or even the early fourties!

Oh, crap, does he have to take responsibility for this? ... he can't leave a woman lying out there, she could be abducted.

Ugh, fine.]

[She's not normally this...emotional, but it's a lot to take in, finding out you're IN THE FUTURE.]

...I'm okay. I'm fine, it's just...

[Everybody she's ever known, which is admittedly a very small number of people, are dead. The family she's been desperately looking for is probably dead too. It's a lot to take in.]

[HELLO FELLOW GINGER. Ginny's grinning, she can't help it.]

I wouldn't want to be Dimitri from the sounds of it.

[Gingers of the world, unite! Anya nods and grumbles a bit. Dimitri is a dead man.]

The idiot nearly got us killed! If he hadn't screwed up our papers, we wouldn't have been in the baggage car, and we'd have been safe with the rest of the train! I'm still not entirely convinced I'm not dead, to be honest!

Edited 2013-08-06 18:20 (UTC)

Well, have you got a heartbeat? Is your skin still warm?

[Yeah, she realises these are bizarre questions, but.]

[Those are weird questions, yeah...]

...yes? Why does that matter? We jumped out of a moving train, and I'm not in Russia anymore. Pretty sure that's kind of a big 'I'm dead' sign.

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