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[flameandpassion]

[There is a pause before the girl that was in a dozen pieces begins to speak. Her voice is quiet, free of the normal conviction and bravado that she would normally have in such a situation.]

Tell me where I'm needed.

[She has no right to call the shots when this is half her fault.]

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[hisbutler_bound]

Perhaps a bed or somewhere else out of the way.

[effyourcupcake.livejournal.com]

Rei?

[flameandpassion]

[ -- oh, Jesus, Violet, don't cry. But she sparks some life into her tone..]

Where are you?

[flameandpassion]

No.

[As evenly as she can.]

[effyourcupcake.livejournal.com]

I'm okay. Someone's coming for me.

How are you alive?

[flameandpassion]

People come back from the dead here. I'm alright.

[No, she's not, but it'll do.]

Who's coming to get you?

[effyourcupcake.livejournal.com]

No, you aren't. Is John coming back too?

[flameandpassion]

[There's a long silence.]

He hasn't come back yet.

[effyourcupcake.livejournal.com]

[Three seconds, and the feed cuts back off.]

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Take a wild guess. [Yeah, that's... Kind of a scolding tone. So sue him. You pulled a WINCHESTER, Hino. And he actually likes you.]

[flameandpassion]

[She doesn't react to the scolding save for a silence. She deserves whatever the citizens of the city decide to do with her. But now isn't the time to lose herself in stupid self-loathing.

Her tone is quiet and mechanic.]

I'm one of the only people in this city that can control fire.

Staying underground is pointless.

[Private // Unhackable]

[flameandpassion]

[The response doesn't come for another half an hour, but while her voice is shaking, it's not with fear, but with anger.]

I won't rest until Aelia's head is on my wall, Violet.

He'll come back. I'll die again to make it happen if I have to.

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Is he awake yet? [Bartimaeus looks concerned for Rei even though he only articulates for Nat. He should have been there to protect them and he feels guilty.]

[voice]

[supermistfrog.livejournal.com]

Someone where you aren't dead and entirely useless.

[There's noise in the background- horrific screeching and the sound of things, bodies perhaps, exploding.]

[flameandpassion]

No.

[Quietly.]

-- I'm sorry, Bartimaeus, I wasn't fast enough.

[voice]

[flameandpassion]

Accomplished.

[With the slightest breath of what might be a smile.]

What else was summoned into the city?

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[he shakes his head]

I promised to protect him. I shouldn't have left you there alone. [I wasn't there because of our squabbling...]

[ video ]

[bcuzofmiasma.livejournal.com]

You are alive, then.

[flameandpassion]

No one else is taking the blame for this.

[Almost pleadingly.]

I put his body somewhere safe.

[ voice ]

[flameandpassion]

The dead return here.

[voice--> video]

[supermistfrog.livejournal.com]

Good. You're learning.

Ah, just a few things I guess. [SCREECH. SMASH.]

Like this.

[He flips the camera on to show a gray, dirty, cross-filled scenery unlike anything seen in Ads. A strange looking creature moves in jerky motions, the corpses of others like it stabbed with the crosses they carry around it..]

It's a small thing, I think.

video; private; unhackable

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[He takes the moment to make it unhackable, even if he isn't sure that'll work against Aelia but he puts faith in the notion that she would consider hacking their conversation pointless, if she even thought of doing anything of the sort at all]

Where?

video; private; unhackable

[flameandpassion]

[x,y]

It's a stone overhang and --

[Mars pauses.]

-- it's not pretty.

[voice]

[flameandpassion]

[She keeps hers on voice, but watches intently.]

Aelia -- did she summon them?

video; private; unhackable

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

I've seen many corpses. Been the cause of a few. [said matter-of-factly but he wasn't all that sure he would brush it off so easily when he saw it. It was one thing to know he had died, quite another to see the body of the boy he fought to protect. Regardless, he tosses the PCD into the air, transforms into his phoenix form and grabs it with his talons as he swoops out of the building he is in via a window and heads to the supplied co-ordinates.]