Two ✦ Video/Open ✦ A Stranger in a Strange Place

[keelah_selai]

[The video is a view of Tali's helmet lit only by the orange glow of an omni-tool. It reflects the book dizzyingly in her visor, glares sparking whenever she turns her head, but the lack of real light renders the image ominously monochrome. Normally Tali would simply look into whatever part of the journal she considered to be the 'camera' at a

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[audio]

[turian_honor]

How the hell do you get lost?

[keelah_selai]

Thank you, Garrus, that's very helpful.

[Don't even start with her, Turian shipmate.]

-I'm not...entirely sure. It's like the walls moved when I looked away. I know it doesn't make any sense, but there's no way this corridor could be this long... I should have at least come to a door, by now.

[turian_honor]

Hey, I try.

[He listens, then shakes his head.]

Stay put. I'll see if I can find you.

[keelah_selai]

Be careful. Shepard's already- [What the hell? A wall?

Another wall?

What is this?]

Oh, Keelah, what next?

[thenotmagician]

You're lost in th'dark, right?

[GDIT STOP EATING ALL OF HIS FRIEND-THINGS, CREEPY LABYRINTH THING.]

[keelah_selai]

Yes. I take it this has happened before.

[SO EMBARRASSING]

[thenotmagician]

I... don't think there's a way out.

[keelah_selai]

I don't either, sorry.

[xenoshepherd]

[AUDIO]

Tali-- have you been around a light source the whole time or did you walk in the dark? Even for a minute or less?

[keelah_selai]

I...

[And only now does she see what's happening here.]

Yes, Shepard. I stepped out the light for minute, but now nothing makes sense. I can't navigate like this.

[AUDIO]

[xenoshepherd]

Shit.

Right, I'm coming for you. Stay in one place if you can. I hope you've got weapons on you.

[AUDIO]

[keelah_selai]

Of course I am. And there's my drone, if I really get stuck.

[Please, I'm part of your crew. Always armed. Always.]

...

Oh, Keelah. [In the same tone as- "What now]

[trollscream]

[Video]

In this place, everyone is lost.

Just some more than others.

And by lost I mean stupid.

[keelah_selai]

Charming.