The Last Voyages // Entry 002. Video. No Filter.

[bestlieutenant]

Video fades in, but doesn't focus at first. What's being shown is the deck, apparently, though the picture is unclear. There appears to be static interference and negative images distorting the picture, in addition to what sounds like whispering over any ambient sounds would be picked up on deck

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Private.

[thegooddrjones]

Madame Lestrange, I know you want him to come here, but October can be horrid here aboard the Barge, and this means that something's going to happen, and it's not going to be very good.

Please be careful.

Private.

[bestlieutenant]

Concern? From ickle Missus Snape? How touching.

Private.

[thegooddrjones]

I'm a doctor. A healer. I've concern for everyone, and I've seen what can happen to people who aren't cautious during events like these.

I don't want you to be caught unaware of what the Barge can do when it's like this. Last time there were demons and they killed something like half the Barge.

Private.

[bestlieutenant]

I understand death is hardly permanent in this place. I dare say if you're truly concerned, you would see about having my wand returned to me. If this place is as dangerous as claim, I should be allowed the means to defend myself, and others, shouldn't I?

[strangehstorian]

Hm. That's an interesting theory. Which Dark Lord are you referring to?

[bestlieutenant]

Which Dark- [Multiple worlds, multiple possible answers. This place is so utterly confusing.] Lord Voldemort.

[strangehstorian]

Ah. What makes you think this is him specifically?

[bestlieutenant]

I can feel it. I am his most loyal servant. His closest and most trusted ally. I simply know.

action.

[truemask]

[ Oh no.

Lucius desires to see this for himself, of course, after watching the video with mute and abstract horror. He doesn't even bother checking his own mark -- he feels not even a suggestion of the Dark Lord's presence, and would never so underestimate the capacity for Bellatrix's breed of batshit.

He listens to the transmissions a while, before leaving his room.

It is not a sense of duty that compels him to the deck, Merlin no. Morbid curiousity, call it that. He stands at a conservative distance, a little indifferent to the fall of ash and burned leaves, his hands empty of customary cane and his communicator pocketed in the drab grey woolen coat he wears over equally plain attire. ]

Lestrange.

What in the world are you doing.

action.

[bestlieutenant]

[Bellatrix lights up when she hears the wizard's voice and turns to spot him herself.]

Lucius! He's coming! Isn't it glorious?

[That conservative distance is cut to an intimate distance. Lestrange grabs Malfoy with both hands and spins about with him, giddy from her supposed discovery, and laughing happily. Or what passes as happy laughter for her breed of batshit. After two revolutions, she abruptly lets go and leaves him to deal with the sudden change in momentum.]

action.

[truemask]

[ She's less frightening when she's murderous.

Lucius' hands go up to fend her off, which is a terrible idea and only encourages what comes next, haphazardly stepping in attempt to keep pace with momentum until the soles of his polished shoes only slip against ash strewn deck as inertia pushes him back upon release again. There's an indignant huff upon landing, a hand sort of up and splayed in some gesture of staying his own patience. ]

A most liberal interpretation of glorious, if I ever heard one.

[ He gets up, and clouds of ash lift off his coat as he irritatedly wipes it off. ]

action.

[bestlieutenant]

[Lucius falling to the ground really only encourage her to laugh harder, but it's a flighty sort of thing, all but skipping about the deck in her triumph.

She falls mercifully silent when it suddenly becomes unnaturally dark, only a gasp punctuating the moment as she stands with wide, wild eyes, as if waiting for some further confirmation to prove her theory.]

If anyone can free us from this place, it's him.

Video:

[tis_disapproval]

"Another who can't see fit to breathe without asking its Master for permission... How very disappointing."

Video:

[bestlieutenant]

"I merely celebrate the return of my Dark Lord. Isn't there anybody you would be pleased to see?"

Re: Video:

[tis_disapproval]

"In short, no. They are better left elsewhere."

Video:

[bestlieutenant]

"Is that because you would prefer they not be brought here, or that you would prefer never to have to see them again?"