first spike ; voice

[makeyourgraves]

[ a loud jostling and clanking noise -- like the communicator just found itself unceremoniously placed inside a bag of coins clipped to someone's belt as said someone races through the forest like mad, which it was - and suddenly, with a rather loud CLANG, all the coins shift at once and then ... silence, except for slow, careful breathing

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[Voice]

[revengeisalie]

Ah... calm down, please!

This may seem strange to you - my voice should be coming from a flat box you may find near you - but... I - I just arrived here yesterday myself, but I can try to explain things to you as far as I've understood them.

voice

[makeyourgraves]

[ she chokes off the explosion of surprise that threatens to escape her throat and spins around, the coins surrounding the box putting up an infernal racket before the extra weight registers -- and then Vin is holding the coin pouch away from her and staring at it as if it's possessed -- which she is not entirely sure it isn't. ]

What are you and how are you speaking to me through my bag? It contains no bones.

[ her voice is flat and hard and dangerously distrustful. ]

voice

[revengeisalie]

I'm a person, just like you! And, uhm, apparently, there are... well, flat boxes here through which you can speak to people who aren't anywhere near you at the moment. Yours might be in the bag.

voice

[makeyourgraves]

[ the bag is duly opened, quickly because there is no point to caution when whatever it is inside could easily attack her regardless of how quickly she opens the bag - and with one last clinkle the communicator is removed from within the bag. a brief pause follows as Vin stares at the flat object, eyes narrowed. ]

You're inside this thing?

[ the explanation, it appears, will bear some repeating ... ]

voice

[revengeisalie]

No, no! I wouldn't fit in there. It just... brings my voice to you, somehow.

voice

[makeyourgraves]

Brings ... your voice ... to me.

[ beat. ]

Where are you?

voice

[revengeisalie]

Yes. I don't know how it does it, but it does.

I'm in a square in the City. Where are you?

voice

[makeyourgraves]

... nowhere near a city square.

[ she grunts. ]

I'm in the forest, just outside your city. The distance this box can carry voices is impressive indeed.

voice

[revengeisalie]

Ah, the forest. I haven't been there yet, myself, but... as far as I know, it's quite dangerous there. You should probably get to the City, where it's safer!

voice

[makeyourgraves]

It's not far to the city from here. I should be at the gate in a matter of moments.

You don't sound at all concerned that I'm coming.

voice

[revengeisalie]

... should I be concerned?

voice

[makeyourgraves]

Only if you feel you need to be.

It would be interesting arriving at a city that doesn't care whether I set foot inside its walls or not, I imagine. That's not a very common reaction.

voice

[revengeisalie]

...

Well, as long as you don't have any intention to do harm, I see no reason to fear you.

voice

[makeyourgraves]

[ a small, quiet laugh. ]

Usually I have to do something to earn that kind of treatment.

Thank you.

voice

[revengeisalie]

Uhm, it's nothing.

...

I'm Asano Rin, and you?

voice

[makeyourgraves]

Of course it's nothing. That's why no one bothers with it.

... Vin.