asgardeventide | [.001] [Video] + [Text] (Early Morning) - Open to Action for Sigyn's Welcome Hall + Right Outside

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[.001] [Video] + [Text] (Early Morning) - Open to Action for Sigyn's Welcome Hall + Right Outside

[The video clicks on not to a view of a person, but a window. Outside the window is snow, snow, and more snow... and what appears to be a moving snowman outside. Those with the proper knowledge might recognize it as the snowman from Sigyn's district.]

...Is that supposed to happen? [It comes from off-screen. She does her best to keep sight of the snowman until it disappears from view.] Has anyone been here long enough to know? [At that point, the camera goes still for a few moments, then begins to move again as she steps over to the door and, after a moment of hesitance, opens it. When she does, the snowman is right there, and it startles her enough for to drop the bracelet, effectively shutting off the feed.]

[A little while later, there's a text message added.]

I think it's okay. He seemed nice.

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It doesn't make me feel a great deal of sympathy for their cause - as vague as it is.

[She's tapping her fingers against her temples, a headache brewing.]

Have you seen any other native citizens to this place? Anybody who wasn't brought here recently, other than the servant?

[(Un?)fortunately for Naminé, she's used to dealing with peculiar conundrums and unpleasant situations.]

I think so. I know I saw some people on my way to my Welcome Hall that looked kind of like the maid. They didn't seem to have bracelets so I don't think they were travelers. I can't really saw how long they might have been here.

Were they as blank as the servant from before?

[A world of no color, and lifeless, empty people..so that part of the letter was true.]

Yes. Maybe even a little more so.

[She's thinking much the same thing.]

[There's a long pause before she writes again.]

If the letter and servant were true about the emptiness of this place, and the powers these deities have given us...I'm inclined for the moment to go along with the situation. At the very least until more information comes to light.

It's not as if I can't take care of myself.

I don't know if there's much else we can do. They haven't asked us to do much but live in the city yet. If we can't leave then there's nothing else that can be done.

I just hope that they won't ask us to do anything else or anything [horrible] bad. [That's the thing that scares her the most; it's happened before, so it can happen again. She has different captors this time, but it's not hard for her to imagine the situation heading the same direction.]

It's more than a little much to ask us to live normally after just uprooting us from our lives.

[..she'd considered that. But she has her standards, and could hold her ground if they tried to force her hand.] They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

[....] I wonder about that sometimes. Not everyone is strong enough to stand up to someone more powerful than they are.

...no. Not everyone needs to be. But I think everyone has something they would fight for, no matter the odds.

[...]

[...Everyone, huh?]

I hope so.

..I'm sorry. We've been talking so long and I haven't even asked your name yet.

[--Oh!] It's okay. I didn't ask you either.

My name is Naminé.

A pleasure. Tear Grants.

I assume you've been here for some time already.

It's nice to meet you Tear.

It's only been a few days but if that counts then yes.

A pleasure.

The same as me. I don't think I've been here more than a week.

It's all..very unsettling, these circumstances. The uncertainty makes it difficult to decide on a course of action.

Yes. It seems like the only thing we can do now is wait.

[And that's scary, even though she doesn't say it.]

Agreed.

[It's all she can do for now. Wait, and observe.]

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