Office Hours - We Could Be
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shieldof[Faith's door remains closed, the brass "PRIVATE" plaque silent and unyielding. Trying to force the door yields no results, but- she said you could contact her here, so just go ahead and knock. Worst case scenario, you're no worse off than before, right?]
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Date: 2025-10-13 04:01 am (UTC)[She nods, determined, giving Vincent a small pat on the head and walking into the office to sit at her desk.]
Please, come here.
[She uncovers the Orb, still flickering through rapid images of people who are Close To, But Not Quite, the various and sundry loved ones she's been trying to track down.]
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Date: 2025-10-13 07:25 am (UTC)It's okay, boy. We're gonna find him. Okay?
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Date: 2025-10-14 04:04 am (UTC)[The scritches she's giving Vincent are purely for the sake of the casting, wdym.]
[She sits down and runs a hand over the orb, the flickering images steadying into swirling nothingness for a moment.]
[And then stars. Zooming through space. Stars. Galaxies.]
[The Milky Way.]
[Closer, faster. Diving in. A tiny blue planet, getting bigger.]
[The ocean. A beach.]
[A young black man, frozen in an instant of time in the scry-]
Wait-
[The image flickers. A teenager. A grown man.]
[Back to the initial young man.]
2/3 i lied gomen
Date: 2025-10-14 04:07 am (UTC)[The image starts jumping, flickering between Walt at different ages, turning into a blur. The orb glows, getting brighter, blinding-]
LADY SHANNON GET DOWN-!
[Faith jumps up from her seat, chair tipping over, wand waving out and throwing a desperate shield around Shannon and Vincent as the orb audibly and sharply cracks in a flash of light.]
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Date: 2025-10-14 04:13 am (UTC)[The orb remains in one piece.]
[Mostly. A thin spiderweb of cracks run over its surface, now a dull, colorless translucency.]
[Faith slowly lowers the decidedly non-magical arm she'd been using to shield herself.]
...that could have been a great deal worse.
[blink]
Lady Shannon! Are you and Sir Vincent unhurt?
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Date: 2025-10-14 04:34 am (UTC)She has a moment, maybe two, to start down these trains of thought, before it all goes wrong and weird. She gasps. Her grip on Vincent's leash tightens and she yanks him back, and as the shield goes up: ]
Faith-!
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Date: 2025-10-14 04:38 am (UTC)And instead of the glass-riddled corpse she expects to see, there's Faith. Fine, and inquiring. ]
Are we- what about you?!
[ Yeah the instant that shield's down, she just kind of. Rushes over. Vincent's coming too, all up in your business now. ]
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Date: 2025-10-14 05:05 am (UTC)[oh wow goodbye personal space she was not expecting to bid you farewell today]
[She pauses a little to actually check over herself. And then look over Shannon.]
I don't know what happened to the spell, a scry should just FAIL if it's not possible, not. That.
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Date: 2025-10-14 05:13 am (UTC)But- but he was there. That was him. Or, it was sort of... What's that mean? Is he okay?
[ Faith likely has no answers for her, but Shannon asks anyway. ]
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Date: 2025-10-14 05:20 am (UTC)[that's the same thing right? ha. ha ha.]
The spell would not have been able to lock in at ALL were he not, but I've never seen a reaction like that.
[what the fuck is up with that island]
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Date: 2025-10-14 05:42 am (UTC)[ That. Somehow that has to be it. It's the only thing that makes sense, even if it also doesn't.
Vincent whines a little. He pushes his nose against Faith's leg. ]
Was that...the only spell? Is- is there anything else you can do...?
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Date: 2025-10-15 01:43 am (UTC)[She looks carefully over the orb, gently touching the cracked surface.]
This will need to be repaired or replaced before I can try seeing into another world again. Still- please try not to be too discouraged by this, even knowing it's possible will make the next attempt easier.
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Date: 2025-10-15 03:50 am (UTC)[ She was ready to have her hopes plummet, so this is frankly a major win to hear. ]
You could really find him?
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Date: 2025-10-15 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-15 04:32 am (UTC)[ what the fuck is the island <3 ]
...I think...there's something wrong with it. Something...more like here.
[ picture of a woman accepting that her world was perhaps maybe not as normal as she thought ]
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Date: 2025-10-17 03:01 am (UTC)[science, sufficiently extrapolated-]
Do you remember anything else about it?
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Date: 2025-10-17 03:50 am (UTC)The transmission, or the island?
[ She kind of. looks away. walks a little so she's not just looking at the slightly busted orb. ]
There was an animal that, reasonably, shouldn't have been there. There was a monster, big enough to knock down trees, but, we never saw it. There were...whispers, in the jungle. All around me.
[ She keeps trying to remember what they said. She thinks at one point, she heard her name. ]
It was... I don't even remember...how I survived the crash, just that one moment it was...we were falling, and the tail ripped off, and then... I was on the beach.
[ Screaming. Just screaming.
Shannon lets out a breath. ]
I don't know. I never had visions before it, that's one thing.
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Date: 2025-10-22 01:27 am (UTC)[She hates that she can't give a more solid answers.]
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Date: 2025-10-22 02:42 am (UTC)Where the hell even... [ Squeezes her eyes shut. ] How did you even find me, to begin with?
[ It's a breathless question, bordering on rhetorical. She doesn't expect an answer, not anymore. ]
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Date: 2025-10-22 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-22 04:41 am (UTC)Solarinace could find him no problem. But...it just doesn't want to.
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Date: 2025-10-23 03:00 am (UTC)[It's a bitter admission.]
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Date: 2025-10-23 06:52 am (UTC)[ Not a question. ]
You don't want any of this to be happening.