Ein ++ VOICE POST

[roseambition]

[It opens with a moment of silence, and then Treize speaks. His tone is quite dry. In the background there is the soft sound of water lapping at some nearby shore.]

This is His Excellency Treize Khushrenada. To anyone that may receive this message, I am requesting retrieval. I seem to be... [A moment's pause, and then he adds, even more dryly,] ..

Comments

[roseambition]

Azadistan?

I'm afraid that name is entirely unfamiliar to me, ma'am.

As I recall, there are still areas of Europe which have resisted urbanization, even with the influences of the war.

A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Princess Ismail, though these are rather unusual circumstances.

[roseambition]

Not at all.

I apologize, I should know the names of all of the countries and colonies of Earth and in space, though I regret to say that it is possible that I have forgotten one or two in light of recent events. Forgive me, but where is Azadistan located?

...the past and the future? Coming together?

[logogrammatic]

... I don't think retrieval is possible right now. Everyone on this network seems to have just arrived.

Are you in the military?

[roseambition]

Yes. That is odd.

I am.

And you might be...? Not a member of the military, I presume?

[logogrammatic]

An unimportant college student. That's... very incongruous.

Have you eaten anything here, yet?

[roseambition]

Not yet.

Why?

[oregagundamda]

Europe?

...AEU.

[roseambition]

AEU?