002 [Video; English]

[notmanaging]

[The communicator flickers on, showing a shaky video footage of a ceiling moving from side to side. In actuality, Adrian is fiddling with it in her hands, as she tends to do with objects when she's nervous or restless, and is unaware that the video feed is even on.]

...so many people here.

I miss the privacy. It's been...

[And the video feeds

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[mansae]

Don't you ever get lonely...? Five years...

[notmanaging]

[sdfhkl. Flustered! She drops the communicator, and it lands on the floor with a small thump. She was, and is, very lonely, yes, but that's hardly anything she's going to admit to.]

No, I prefer to live by myself.

[mansae]

That's really cold! I bet Japan would say that kind of thing...

[notmanaging]

What sort of thing? I simply prefer my independence.

[vonkarmic]

You're quite right, Adrian Andrews; the living situation here is remarkably tiresome.

[notmanaging]

[Wow, had everyone in the apartment heard her complain about them? Adrian suddenly feels extremely embarrassed that Franziska had heard her too.]

Ah! No, it's not too bad, really.

[vonkarmic]

You should really stand by your statements.

There's no need to retract what you've said now, not when everyone's already heard it; besides, as I said, you're correct. The noise level in this apartment is severely out of control. Unfortunately, I highly doubt the capability of the main culprit's father to control her, so we all must suffer for his incompetence.

[notmanaging]

[Well, if Franziska suggested it, Adrian will try it. She exhales heavily before speaking.]

It is rather noisy, but I don't think it's Mr. Wright's fault. There's a lot of people and well, he doesn't strike me as being very well versed in the area of discipline.

[witchoftheweek]

I am almost embarrassed to say that when there's not an Incident it is quieter than it is at my own library.

[notmanaging]

Does that mean the library is quite noisy?

[witchoftheweek]

It means that no-one is breaking in.

[notmanaging]

Is the library regularly broken into?

[yukarchery]

Can't you just find another room, then?

[notmanaging]

[Well, no. It's not quite as simple as that - as much as she would like some peace and quiet, she doesn't want to be alone in this unfamiliar place. Home is one thing, Discedo is a different beast entirely.]

I don't think that would be advisable.

[yukarchery]

[She could say the same. The apartment's felt a lot emptier without Fuuka around.]

Why's that?

[notmanaging]

This place is dangerous, and there's safety in numbers. That's all.

[whiteduplicity]

It can be quite... different.

[notmanaging]

Different? I suppose that's one way of putting it.

[whiteduplicity]

You could try moving out somewhere down the hall instead? That's what I did when my friends were first here.

[notmanaging]

I'm not sure if that's truly an option I have.