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[enustari]

[The woman onscreen does not look at all well. There's a sickly, jaundiced cast to her skin, which is covered in a fine sheen of sweat, and her eyes are yellowed and bloodshot with deep, dark circles underneath. She also seems to be holding the communicator at arms length. She squints at it a moment, image shaking in time with her hand, then puts it down on a nearby surface so the view changes abruptly to a static shot of the ceiling.]

-Fucking shit, this screen gives me a headache. [Her voice is low and gravelly, like she's been smoking 2 packs a day since age 12.] Let's make this quick. I puked up what might have been a vital fucking organ in the car on the way over here. I need a drink and I need it yesterday. If you can do something about that, send me a message on this thing.

I'll engage with the rest of this shitshow later.

[...]

Verbal responses only. [You can still respond via text, of course, but it'll be several hours at least before Elsa will reply. Reading is hard right now, okay.]

Comments

[hostage]

What were you gonna do with it?

[enustari]

Fix the world.

What I said before, about killing everyone- that wasn't hyperbole. Someone did that. [Her lip curls. Everything in her expression, the sudden tension in her body, radiates hatred.] I couldn't stop her, but I was going to fix it.

[hostage]

[No wonder she's drinking.]

Shit, that's... I'm sorry.

[enustari]

Well, joke's on her. I'm here. [And not dead! Eat shit, Mika.]

[hostage]

You hoping to stay here for good?

[enustari]

Why not? It's an Earth and things seem to be in a lot better shape.

[hostage]

Hell yeah. It's pretty sweet, far as universes go.

[enustari]

How long have you been here?

[hostage]

Over a year. About as long as any of us has been here. At least, outta this wave of imPorts.

[enustari]

[This wave? When she's settled in a little more, she'll have to do some research, see how long this has been going on. It may have worked out well for her, but it's highly unusual. Unnatural. She'd like to know as much as she can about the mechanics of it.]

I suppose that's long enough to know. Is it better than where you came from?

[hostage]

Not really. My world's probably a hell of a lot safer, since we don't got powers or magic or anything. But there's nothing really left for me there, so I'm cool with sticking around here.