[ video ] ⚡ [ backdated to day 12 ]

[thestormishere]

[ It's almost evening, and though it seems the serious-looking woman in this video feed is in public - her back pressed to a wall that might be familiar to those observant enough to recognize the area around the city's central castle, her face flushed from the ambient cold - this particular message is very private

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[video]

[metaleyedgirl]

...okay, are you the one that knows Snow, or the one that apparently somehow knows my cousin?

[thestormishere]

[ ... Don't snap, Lightning. Just. Keep it cool. ]

Snow is my sister's fiance.

[ And anyone who doesn't know him can't be her. Needless to say, her voice is still tight and clipped. ]

[metaleyedgirl]

Just checking. It's a little confusing.

[Sorry, Light]

Uh, I can still mess with stuff and make it blow up, probably? Haven't tried it yet.

[thestormishere]

[ Like... uh... bombs? If that's really something like what she was asking about-- well, even if Lightning felt some curiosity toward asking about that more, it's trumped by the fact that Rikku too apparently had a run-in with bloody!Lightning...! ]

Are you from 'Gaia?'

[ Repeating the name she heard from Cloud before, when he'd asked her if that's where she was from. ]

[video]

[holmes_fanatic]

I haven't heard anything about imitation, Oneesan, but I know a friend who met a girl here with a voice really like hers! Is that like what you meant?

It looks like people who practised things like drawing or fighting kept those things -- it's only powers or tools that have stopped working!

[thestormishere]

[ 'Oneesan?' What...? In any case-- ]

... Not quite. [ She pauses a moment, conflicted, before pressing on. ] I mean more than that. Appearance.

[holmes_fanatic]

Appearance--

I haven't heard of anything like that at all. Although -- we're all from different worlds. I've met someone who is a historical figure in mine, but here is the same but different from how that historical figure was in my world ... maybe different worlds have the same people, just according to their world?

[thestormishere]

[ Lightning goes silent, though her sudden discomfort may as well be audible in the subsequent pause-- especially with the weird look that then appears on her face at the suggestion. However, it doesn't take too long before: ]

I don't think that's the case here.

video;

[veritates]

Imitate others...? I haven't heard of anything like that...

[ a shake of his head. ]

I can't do any of what I used to be able to. The not normal stuff, anyway.

[thestormishere]

[ Yeah, just as she thought- it's not like she's heard of anything either for both matters, aside from her and her friends seeing something very strange. She's just not sure what other explanation there could be.

In the video her lips press together in agitation, and her eyes drift off-screen in irritated thoughtfulness. She does not, however, offer much more response. ]

[veritates]

...are you okay?

[ he couldn't really tell if she was actually bothered by something or just... being herself. but now he at least thinks it might be the former. ]

[thestormishere]

Yes.

[ A pause. A flat look. A second thought. Just trying to figure things out here, Souji. ]

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[machinajackass]

I personally haven't heard of anyone having that sort of ability. Why? Having your bumped into someone that seems to have that kind of power?

[thestormishere]

You could say that.

[thestormishere]

[ Zen... don't get cute with her, she is so not in the mood for people twisting her words all around. There's a beat or two as she aims a flat expression at the bracelet's 'camera' before replying. ]

Magic. Powers. Whatever you want to call it. Stuff that goes beyond what normal people can just learn to do.

[ Which isn't a perfect description of what she means - and obviously she's unfamiliar with how things work a lot of the time in other worlds - but... ]

[thestormishere]

That's pretty much the trend.

[ Yeah, she gets that... and yet, she's asking anyway- even though she also knows that chances are, if someone was unusual enough to retain an 'ability,' they'd probably be known already... and likely wouldn't be pulled out by her just asking.

But damn it, she has to at least try. ]