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[deathline]

[If there is one thing Shiki isn't very all that crazy about, it's this new technology. She's not totally in the dark though and at least the escort was kind enough to explain how the new communicator worked in the simplest terms possible. Finding out that she can't make certain calls? Definitely not as fun and it made it seem even more useless.

A deep, but feminine voice brusquely leaves a message on the network, clearly not busting her chops with long questions.]

So who do I have to talk to to get a plane back to Japan?

Alternatively, who do we have to get rid of to go back at all?

[A beat. She lets out a short sigh and decides she might as well introduce herself.]

Ryougi Shiki. I'm new.

[Great at this social thing isn't she?]

Comments

[deathline]

[Without...?]

... His powers? Were they taken away?

[godly]

Yes, they were taken away, or at least suppressed to the point where escape is pointless. Again, I don't know the logistics of it, but all I can say is that the technology here is more impressive than it may even initially seem.

[deathline]

[Ryougi instinctively reaches up to brush her fingers against her eyelids, wondering if she had been tampered with and how. She couldn't even get rid of her own Mystic Eyes when she had discovered them after waking up from her coma. If these government and military types were able to... Needless to say, Shiki's sense of uneasiness grew.]

It sounds like more of a combination of magic and technology that seems to be in the works.

[Not that she know much about the former. She barely tolerated listening to Touko's long winded explanations on magus dealings back at Garan no Dou.]

[godly]

I don't know how much "magic" you can apply to it. Though there are some here who claim to possess some talent for it. Myself not included.

[Something that, sometimes frustratingly, remains alien to him ever since his arrival.]

[deathline]

At least where I'm from magic is capable of strange phenomenons, but even it has its limits.

[godly]

And what of people who possess strange abilities? Do you have those too?

[deathline]

Yeah. I have them.

[She doesn't seem to want to elaborate any more than that.]

[godly]

Would you care to... explain further?

[deathline]

[She thinks for a second.]

No.

[godly]

Fine.

[No real loss on his part.]

I was only asking out of curiosity.

[deathline]

You'll find out sooner or later. Right now, I don't have a use for what I've got.

[godly]

My condolences? That can be either a good thing or bad thing, you understand.

[deathline]

I don't need condolences for this sorta thing.

[godly]

I'm just attempting to be empathetic; we all have to go through this, you know.

[god.]

[deathline]

[Boo hoo]

Well, you tried. It kinda counts.

[godly]

[An audible "tch". This girl.]

Anything else?

[deathline]

Nah, I'm good. I'll figure out everything else on my own.