✜034 [voice]

[deadly_legacy]

[The audio starts broadcasting the gentle sounds of the outdoors long before she speaks. Her voice is a little raw. She's been crying, but she's trying not to let it sound.]

Hello.

[Another long pause.]

I'm sorry I'm not contacting everyone individually. I'm not sure who they know well. ...Knew.

[There's another pause, but this time when she returns her voice is a little shakier. All the practice and control in the world can't take the pain out of these words.]

My brother, Lelouch, and sister, Nunnally, have left the City.

[It sounds like she might say more, but after a moment the audio shuts off.]


(OOC: Forward dated to late morning. Euphie is in Xanadu curled up behind a tree if anyone wants to action at her.)

Comments

[inmyothertights]

[There's crunching where he's walking on leaves - if he were trying to be silent, he'd fly - and he's rubbing his hands together because it's kind of chilly]

Euph? Euphie?

[deadly_legacy]

[Here are the sounds of trying to stop crying. Sniffling and quick breaths. She turns away from the voice, wiping at her cheeks.] Billy?

[inmyothertights]

[He trips and stumbles around her tree]

Hey, Euph.

[deadly_legacy]

[That gets her to look up with puffy eyes and wet cheeks.] Are you all right?

[inmyothertights]

Oh, yeah, I mean.

I should be asking you that.

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[blastiafreak]

Euphie...they're important to you, aren't they?

[She sort of wants to say that Euphie will see them again, but--why get her hopes up when it might not be true?]

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[team_sociopath]

They left today?

[deadly_legacy]

I...

[She looks back down. Her fingers playing with the cuff of her ill-fitting coat. It doesn't really look like her style because it's actually Lelouch's.]

I just needed to get out of the apartment for awhile.

[Plus, she had to check the hall to be sure.]

[inmyothertights]

[He sort of tucks himself closer to her and mumbles, and there's a flare of blue in his eyes, and it's a little warmer around them]

I totally understand how that feels.

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[deadly_legacy]

Rita...

Yes, they [pausing again, not wanting her voice to break] are very, very important to me. [She didn't want to lose them again.]

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[deadly_legacy]

[Softly.] They didn't come home last night. I hoped... [Her throat feels thick and itchy and she can't finish that sentence, but her hope didn't turn out. That much is clear.]

I checked the hall today.

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[blastiafreak]

They're not stuck here anymore...

But that doesn't really...make it any better, does it?

[deadly_legacy]

[She does feel warmer. It's nice.]

[...Now can you bring back her family?]

He has...had been here almost as long as I have.

[inmyothertights]

[Sorry, no can do]

Maybe he'll come back.

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[deadly_legacy]

[Oh Rita... If she hadn't learned something a couple of weeks ago that might have given her some solace, but right now it just makes her cry. She doesn't disconnect, but she does cover up the communicator, hoping to muffle the sound.]

[deadly_legacy]

[She nods ever so slightly.]

He shouldn't be there.

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[team_sociopath]

[After a long pause.]

I'm really, really sorry, Euph.

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[guardianjoker]

...Euphie?

[inmyothertights]

Are you alone?

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[blastiafreak]

[Her heart sinks a bit--maybe that wasn't quite the right thing to say, but she doesn't know how to cheer her up.]

Euphie, uh--s-sorry...

(ooc: Heading off to bed right now!)

[deadly_legacy]

[You're right here, Billy. Or do you mean...?]

Suzaku is here.

[They... They haven't really talked much since she found out what happens in the future she didn't make it to.]

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[deadly_legacy]

I-it's okay. [Trying to comfort Rita is easier than comforting herself.] I don't mean to... I'm sorry.

(OOC: Sounds like something I should do...but won't.)

[inmyothertights]

[He frowns a little]

Is that good or bad?

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[deadly_legacy]

Tommy... [There's something in her voice. It reaches out just a little.]

I thought there would be more time.

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[deadly_legacy]

Amu. Did...did you know them?