026 // [VIDEO] // Rags to rags and rust to rust

[echo_of_utopia]

[ Normally Lamb's tone is friendly; neutral at least. It is not tense and it certainly does not contain clearly audible nuances of anger. ]

Is this our recent event?

[ At 'this' she holds up a blue dress with entirely unmatching red stains and after a moment tosses it onto a pile of equally stained, torn or otherwise ruined clothes

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[disjointed_dead]

[For this response, the screen is mostly black, but there's a white area that MIGHT look like a face. If you squint and tilt your head. This is accompanied by a very soft, short-lived scratching noise.]

[video]

[echo_of_utopia]

[ Now that response is just insultingly unhelpful. But it is a response, so let's see... ]

Hello?

[video]

[disjointed_dead]

[An eye opens in the pale patch on the screen and just STARES at Lamb.]

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[echo_of_utopia]

[ And Lamb STARES back, trying to figure out if this is an actual person who is trying to talk to her. ]

[hurried video]

[40410]

[ Guess who's seen way too much Slenderactivity recently to be worrying about clothes? In Alex's opinion, an untidiness event or whatever can shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Sofia sounds a good deal less composed than usual, and that's doing nothing for his nerves. ]

Sof', tell me you still have your camera thing. I - he's -

[ We should mention that Alex seems to be hiding his face behind his hand, and that he's beamed to you live from inside a closet. ]

E-everywhere. He's everywhere.

1/3

[echo_of_utopia]

[ She did not understand that first word. She thinks it may have been one of those modern greetings, like s'up or the name of whoever this person meant to call instead of her.

She briefly thinks to herself that it almost sounded like what Stango called her during the family event. Not that that's in any way applicable now, and anyway-- ]

What camera thing?

[ When did she get a camera thing?

See, unfortunately a lack of certain associations today has shoved the little surveillance robot into a far away corner of her mind where it can't be accessed just like that. ]

2/3

[echo_of_utopia]

[ And just like that she realises that she just snapped at a poor and obviously distressed stranger.

For a moment she lowers her head in disbelief. ]

I apologise.

Today has been... straining.

[ Because of something as trivial as clothes. Clothes! She shudders to think. ]

3/3

[echo_of_utopia]

[ But, ah, back to the distressed part. Her smile is weary, but it's a smile nonetheless. ]

Is there anything I can help you with? Anything at all?

[ She doubts she is the person he meant to call, but that doesn't mean she can't offer her assistance.. ]