[video] - 1st Seal

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

[The video feed clicks on to show a very unhappy looking teenager standing in a fairly nondescript room.] Hello? There's someone that can hear this right? [Kamui pauses for a moment before frowning even more.] I need to know how to get out of this place. I have-- I can't stay here. There's something I have to do.

[There's a another pause, longer than the first, before Kamui visibly forces himself to calm down.] My name is Kamui. If anyone can help me... I'd really appreciate it. Even if you can only just tell me where I am.

[...] Thank you.

Comments

[video]

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

[the girl on screen seems extremely disenchanted with everything, chin in her palm in her own room.] You're in the Manor. It's run by a madwoman who is as powerful as she is brainless, and thus far, no one has discovered a reliable method of escape.

[video]

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

[That's alarming.] A madwoman?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

I suppose that might be giving her too much credit-- by all accounts, she's a teenage girl who aspires to be a novelist. In her eyes, we're all but characters in her regrettably terrible story.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

[Frowning.] She's writing stories about us?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

This is the story. Things will change-- we'll be in New York one week and Venice the next. We have full control of ourselves, at least, if not the setting.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

[In an attempt to keep up with the situation:] Is she the one changing the... manor?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

Yes. There seems to be little we can do to stop her.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

Is there a way to leave?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

Not intentionally. People leave, but not of their own volition. I left and was brought back not too long after.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

Is there any way to talk to her?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. Presumably, she can hear... or see? Us talking now, but I've never seen any sort of a response. There is a sentient rabbit that seems to carry out her will.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

A sentient rabbit?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

I wish I was kidding.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

Is there a way to find the rabbit, then?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

I admit that I've never gone looking.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

Mm. Thank you anyway.

... my name is Kamui.

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

Akako Koizumi. There's a man here named Saguru Hakuba-- if you run into him, he has been here longer than I have, and he's quite trustworthy. Finding him could be complicated at the moment, given that everyone seems to be in the wrong form.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

[Wrong form?] Did she change everyone into something strange?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

Their minds are in the wrong bodies.

[nootherwish.livejournal.com]

[Frowning.] Whose?

[lastredwitch.livejournal.com]

Various people. I honestly couldn't tell you most of them.