001 - A Bad Day For Everyone

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki Kirihara appears on the plane looking very, very pissed. Her Sig P230 is unholstered and leveled at…

…no one.]

Tch.

[She lowers the weapon, very slightly, taking in her surroundings. Or rather, the lack thereof.]

Contractor!

[She turns in a slow circle, tension wrapped around her like a creaking spring.]

Contractor! Show yourself. You’re being stupid. Using your power on a member of the NPA will get you killed. It isn’t worth the laugh.

[A pause. She’s starting to get angry again.]

Show yourself!

[She looks up, down, around at the stars, and a pained expression crosses her face. Barely audible, she mutters,]

You people… know how to be cruel.

Comments

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head.] Point taken.

Do you find it reassuring, then? That everything here is so odd? It must make your situation seem a little less... [She can't quite find the word.] Impossible isn't right. Unsalvageable?

[Looks down] At this point I can't imagine the Gate disappearing--not malfunctioning, but disappearing. I... frankly, don't know what I'd do if that were to happen. I don't know how the world could be afterwards.

[didorothy]

Aside from the usefulness of being able to go to professional time travellers for advice on meddling... I don't know. People here've given me perspectives I couldn't get before.

Do you think it would be a better world?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Nods thoughtfully.]

I'm not sure. [Loooooong pause.] I don't know how the Gate's disappearance would effect some of those I count among my friends. I don't really want to find out.

[didorothy]

Li mentioned the Gate moving in his world...

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She shivers.] I don't know that I would be able to tell if it did. I can only hope that it won't.

[didorothy]

Li said that he was the only one who could tell, of all the people who should've been able to.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Really? [Long, brooding silence.] That must have been frightening for him. He didn't react well, I take it.

[didorothy]

I didn't see his... initial response to it. But he didn't seem happy when it came up.