First Over || accidental video

[fiveagainstradley]

[ The video feed opens on a small, wet cardboard box and a handful of thoroughly soaked and utterly useless matches. From the quality of the audio, it's evident the recording is accidental. ]

Where am I? This isn't Ashbury. And-- Oh, great, how am I meant to call Luke now? Wait, what's this? Some sort of portable?

[ A hand comes into view as it picks up the device, revealing a sandy-blond boy in his late teens. His hair and clothes are a few decades out of date, and he seems confused enough by what he's holding to suggest he's not from around here. ]

Oh, it's a camera. Sort of? Where's the film go? [ In trying to figure out where to put the nonexistent film, David accidentally ends the feed. ]

Comments

[doeswhathewants]

Ah! Well then, I suppose he ought not worry about the perils of the Underground.

[infernoandhearth]

No, he needn't, especially once we've found new matches.

[doeswhathewants]

Is that some sort of flirting thing? The matches?

[infernoandhearth]

No, not really, it's just a quick way of summoning me. I promised him I'd show up whenever he kindled a flame.

[doeswhathewants]

Summoning. [He might be laughing a little.]

[infernoandhearth]

Summoning. I owe him absolutely everything.

And he's just generally fun, of course, even if I owed him my life, I wouldn't hang about with someone dull.

[doeswhathewants]

Any friend of yours, as the saying goes.

[infernoandhearth]

Oh good! Do you want to tell him about you, by the way, or shall I?