1st hunt | video

[momchester]

[The video starts a bit awkwardly, with the shakycam and fumbling of someone who isn't very practiced at the art of video chatting. A late-20-something woman's face is up close, clearly trying to figure out "how does I tech". After some fumbling, the camera stills and she sits back, looking a bit awkward.]

Okay. So, I guess this is what people do here. Calling the Internet using cameras.

[She looks too young and modern to be so fail at technology.]

Anyway- hi. I'm new.

Let's just say I didn't go to the, um, shitshow today- Thank God... Let's say I'm not gonna register. Don't wanna put on tights and fight crime, or whatever.

What're my options? Learn to knit? [There are at least three (3) guns visible in the video. She does not look like a knitter.] Start a [air quotes] "blog"?

I can't exactly do what I did back home- no monsters to hunt. No day job to go back to.

I kinda don't know what to do with myself.

Comments

voice;

[dejerate]

I dunno that I'd call much if anything about home 'charming'. At least, after the virus. But yeah. If you hunted monsters back home, I guess I could figure how our homes could be similar.

It's different here. Calmer, in comparison. At least, for me. Might be for you too. Which isn't a bad thing. Just takes some adjusting to, I guess.

voice;

[momchester]

I know what you mean. When you said it's better. When I first got here, I thought- I actually thought this world was fake. That it was a djinn wish. It's the only way I could imagine being in a world without monsters, reunited with- certain people.

voice;

[dejerate]

A djinn? Ohhh! Like a genie, right? With the wishes? Yeah. I spent years thinking my family was dead before I found Mika again. So, I get that. Definitely.

voice;

[momchester]

It just seems too strange, too good and surreal, to be true, doesn't it?

voice;

[dejerate]

It does. I have Mika, there's no war or anything. Or, not outright that I'm fighting in, anyway. There's no virus to worry about. This is about as good as it gets. But I've had -- er, what, almost couple years now to adjust. Not like you.