|02| honey child, you're not safe here

[seesyou]

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Comments

[audio, technically]

[41810]

[Ohgodohmanohgod. J watches it silently. He can't get anyone he WANTS to talk to on the damn communicator, so of COURSE he gets the Operator.]

[text]

[seesyou]

leadme

[audio]

[41810]

[His voice is terrified, so it's quiet - but he knows the Operator can hear him.]

I...

If you mean Alex, I ... don't know where he is.

[text]

[seesyou]

[There's a pause. The Operator is not used to so many people answering back, particularly not these.]

find theark

[leavejapanalone]

...Huh? What is it suppose to say?

[Text]

[crymogaea]

The hell?

[Text]

[seesyou]

[For a moment so brief that it's hard to say it really happened, all the zeroes have x's through them.]

[Text]

[crymogaea]

Nice trick.

[text]

[timisnotme]

-----[leadyou]--///

Alex

[find]

Alex

will find.---- /// 01101100011011110111001101110100

*Ohgawd, he's in trouble. And he can't find the Operator. And that previous transmission went through all garbled. And the Operator wants Alex, who he JUST LEFT, and... Masky is full on panicking. And he's stuck in a hedge maze.*

[text]

[seesyou]

[His minion occasionally has a small fit of stubbornness, so the Operator simply assumes that the masked man's scarcity is deliberate, and reaches out to punish him.

And reaches nothing but blankness, despite the fact that he can sense the words right there in front of him.]

where

[text]

[timisnotme]

*and panic turns to terror. As much as he tries to resist he still types:*

Hedge maze. Lost.

*He stares at that message and runs blindly in a random direction.*

[text]

[seesyou]

l0st

g0ne

[The Operator is...actually, he's quite confused. Masky tells him he's in the hedge maze, but he can't find him there. In fact, he can't figure out where the hedge maze is at all.]

[audio yeahhhh]

[40410]

[And over in this corner, Alex stands up immediately, grabbing the camcorder that always sits on his desk and backing away from the wall comm'. Perhaps you'll hear the clatter of his movement, or his low, dread-filled "No, no, not now...".

He's not ready. His defeat of the crocodile was chancy, and draining, and temporary - so how the hell is he supposed to face this man without training his plasmid to a more powerful level?

The Operator has a knack for turning 'I have a defence to improve on' into 'my defence isn't good enough oh god oh man'.]

[text]

[seesyou]

don't run

[audio]

[40410]

[The breath rasps in his throat. His free hand finds the comforting solidity of a tripod; he follows it up to its camera and hangs on.

It's just text, he tells himself. It's just writing. He's not in your room. He can't touch you through the comm'. I... I don't think he can touch you through the comm.]

g-get off my screen.

[text]

[seesyou]

[These humans are talking back so much lately. In fact, they're getting rather uppity. Of course, J was always trouble, with his cameras and his youtube and his contact with the outside world, but Alex? Alex who ran from him, who tried to hide?]

y0u remember

willfind theark