First Report

[littlepinksuitcase]

[The video feed begins, showing a composed young woman who appears to be quite calm. She isn't looking straight into the camera but slightly off-center, as if she's never communicated through video before.]

Greetings, everyone. My name is Meryl Stryfe of the Bernardelli Insurance Company. I have a partner, Milly Thompson—she seems to have lost her way, so if anyone has seen her, could you please direct me to where I could find her? Thank you very much.

[She hesitates before going on with exaggerated politeness, though it's less and less effortlessly sincere.]

In the meantime, the guides here have been very helpful, but I think they may be a little confused. I'm sure I was in a very small town, and Siren's Port doesn't appear anywhere on my atlas--

[She pauses, then frowns and crosses her arms over her chest.]

All right, I admit it, I have no idea how I got here, but I certainly didn't travel an entire world away without a ship! That's something out of a kid's story. Whoever's responsible for this, I just want you to know that I will find you, and when I do, I am going to sue you..

Comments

video forever because she is not messing further with technology

[littlepinksuitcase]

No, I'm sorry, but that can't be true. People don't just wake up somewhere else without kidnappers being involved!

Re: video forever because she is not messing further with technology

[madeinoblivion]

Its more like a... force. Thing. The Pull.

[littlepinksuitcase]

Sorry, junior, but this "pull" thing sounds like bad fiction. It's not convincing at all.

[madeinoblivion]

I'm not lying!

[littlepinksuitcase]

Maybe not, but you are mistaken. Just how does this force take people, huh?

[madeinoblivion]

I don't know. I think it reaches out to...something inside of us. Maybe our hearts.

[littlepinksuitcase]

Our hearts, huh.

...that sounds very sentimental.

[madeinoblivion]

I'm not trying to sound sappy, okay!

Hearts are the strongest things that connect people. Even across worlds.

[littlepinksuitcase]

Well, my heart has somewhere else to be. A friend of mine...he was in the middle of something very important, and I need to be there when he finishes and comes back! Because he's going to come back.

[madeinoblivion]

Who are you looking for?

[littlepinksuitcase]

A tall woman with long brown hair—my partner, her name is Milly Thompson. And a blond, spiky-haired, troublemaking pacifist named Vash—but neither of them could be here.

[madeinoblivion]

Blonde and spiky hair, huh?

I guess that's popular, around here.

[littlepinksuitcase]

What do you mean?

[madeinoblivion]

Sounds like my friend- although he's not much trouble.

And really not a pushover, either.

[littlepinksuitcase]

Well, unless your friend is a donut-swilling fool, we can't be talking about the same person.

[madeinoblivion]

Donut swilling?

Well. He runs a coffee shop.

[littlepinksuitcase]

You'd know it if you saw it.

Well, if my friend ever makes it here and yours sells donuts to go with the coffee, he'll have a customer for life.

[madeinoblivion]

If you find them, tell them to look up S.S. Kahve.