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can a slave do this? *dies and goes back in time* ([personal profile] usurpers) wrote in [community profile] aefenglom2019-07-24 07:38 pm

VIDEO

Name: eren jaeger
Date: juril 13th
Format: video

[ Around a fire in the dark of night, a few tents and the movement of witches, entertainment and the like of volunteers behind them, Eren sits outside of the city wall with company as the feed starts, Lex sitting next to him with Dogmeat sprawled out a few inches away. ]

Anyone with any intention of walking closer to Wilder’s Edge, don’t go alone and don’t go unprepared to fight.

We ran into something. Humanoid, with a creepy laugh. It mimicked our faces, our movements, and it was not playing around.

[ The flex of her talons, the little grit of her monster-sharp teeth, probably makes it clear exactly what Lex thinks about that. Shoulder to shoulder, Eren’s head dips, sideways to rest his cheek to the top of her head— spontaneous as the dragon sinks half his face into her curly, furry, feathery hair. There’s no resistance; if anything, the chimera leans into it. ]

Fighting that thing alone wouldn’t go well. It wasn’t infected, as far as we could tell. The Cwyld isn’t the only danger here.

[ Eren confirms with a nod that comes with wetting his lips, only turning his face to direct himself to the camera again else he’d muffle his words. His own ink-dipped hands and claws hold somewhere around her back, under her opposite arm and stretching out the wide tears at the back of his ruined, bloodied shirt and closed nape wound that had been healed by magic hands. he points to his neck. ]

It looked predatory. And it probably won’t back off unless you take it down, or trap it first. The veterans don’t know what to tell us.

[ Eren also doesn’t spend too much time with video feeds, and presses. buttons, like a grandpa. He presses all the damn buttons (that probably fuck up configurations plenty, he mutters fucking because technology is hard), until a photo is tagged to the post. A lot of photos, most of them blurry messes until one actually shows a body, of the mimic in question. A black sleek face, no features to show for except for a broken mask, long limbs, and teeth like needles behind the fissures. Its neck bares a shredded hole and its middle is spilled.

Dryly: ]
We didn’t get a before picture.
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-07-26 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's the right start.

[ There's a particular emphasis on it, a certainty emanating from her, if only to avoid any misunderstanding that she thinks it's insufficient. They've done well. ]

I'm only worried about what it means for us if there are creatures out there that look like us and act just like us.
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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be they've always been out here. I mean, how many people go out into the Wilde, right?

[ But she sighs, leaning against Eren a little, letting her hand drop down to stroke Dogmeat on the top of his head. ]

Luckily the face seems to be the only thing it changed- and it didn't speak, other than its laughter.
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-07-26 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be that they were waiting for the right moment to show themselves. Maybe they thought we were easier targets, or — [ She purses her lips, frowning at the line of thought. ] — the mirrorbound arriving here has changed this world in ways we haven't realized yet.

[ It would make sense, Rey thinks, that the world has been thrown off-balance. They aren't supposed to be here, aren't part of this world, despite how it's tried to claim some of them — has tried to change them as it has changed her. ]

The world has been changing us, but I don't think it's as one-sided as we believed.
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-07-26 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to be wrong. [ If only to spare this world a gruesome fate, involuntarily provoked by their presence. Her voice fades off, softer, though more hopeful when she amends, ] But if I'm not, it gives us somewhere to start.

[ In eliminating the threat, first and foremost. The rest — unraveling their origins, and how they've come to be in this universe — will follow. Without any answers, she has to imbue that thought with her faith. ]

Rey. [ There's no blunt or tact in this introduction, as witnessed by her quick follow-up as she glances between the two. ] Are you Bonded, or just partners?
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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-08-01 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not yet. There's a little widening of her own eyes, but she doesn't comment on it. ]

The Wilders take volunteers to go out. I like knowing my surroundings, the dangers in them. So.

[ Dogmeat gets his ears rubbed as Lex shrugs. ]

And this way, we're checked for the Cwyld both ways and have backup, if we need it.