VIDEO | Backdated to the 10th

[coheres]

[ The video comes to life but there's no face on the other end, just a handwritten note along with a sloppy signature. Some may recognize the last name, others may not, but she honestly doesn't care. She has questions. She wants answers (despite the fact they likely don't have them all). And she desperately wants to find her friends.

The handwritten note is just precaution. She remembers the Null, even if her memory is fuzzy. Just as she doesn't sign it with her full name or tag it with her name. ]

Run down, please. We were underground and not cooking in the sun last I remember.

I could also use some help acquiring some sunscreen SPF... I don't know, whatever the fuck will keep me from turning into a tomato, and a pair of sunglasses.

DA SILVA

Comments

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Sometimes. But some people can. They shouldn't get left behind.

[Audio]

[coheres]

They shouldn't be sheep then.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Sometimes it's safer.

[Audio]

[coheres]

That's their problem. If they choose safety over the right thing then they get what they deserve.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Sometimes they can't.

[Audio]

[coheres]

Bullshit, ok.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Not really. Not when you can hear it.

[Audio]

[coheres]

Even if I could hear it, I really don't think it would change my mind. Anyone willing to lie down in the face of something horrid, in the face of things inhumane, deserve to be trampled like the things they placate themselves to.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

They can't help being scared.

[Audio]

[coheres]

No, but they can stand up despite that. They choose not to. I get that you're all gung-ho Mister Optimism, Cole, but I can't defend people like that.

You understand, right? I know you'd probably defend them no matter what argument I placed.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Fear freezes. People try, but they can't.

[Audio]

[coheres]

A deer caught in the headlights is going to get hit by the car. I don't care what fear does to people, I care about the fact that they're brainless.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

What if it was you?

[Audio]

[coheres]

It never has been. [ LIAR ] I was the one that suffered because of cowards like that.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Would you want them to forget you?

[Audio]

[coheres]

What do you mean? I won't let anyone whose hurt me forget me or what they've done.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

But you want to forget them. They're people too.

[Audio]

[coheres]

They're not people; they're monsters.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Monsters are monsters. Most people try not to be monsters.

[Audio]

[coheres]

Under the skin, most people turn out to be monsters.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Most of them don't want to be.

[Audio]

[coheres]

I... I don't think I can believe that. And even if they didn't want to be, that's what they became.

You don't come back from that. You don't deserve to.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Sometimes. Sometimes it's too late. But sometimes it isn't, too.

[Audio]

[coheres]

That's rare. [ Vincent, maybe. Mello. She can't think of anyone else that grew past what they'd let themselves become and believe. ]

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

But it happens.