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]

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.

[Audio]

[coheres]

It doesn't change the fact that most of them are monsters underneath it all. You should learn that before you end up getting hurt, Cole.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

I don't hurt people.

[Audio]

[coheres]

Then you'll be the one who ends up hurt. Why not hurt someone who is going to hurt you?

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Because sometimes they don't want to, but when it whispers they can't not hear it. Sometimes they try.

[Audio]

[coheres]

Again, another rarity.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

Why should they hurt too? It isn't their fault it is.

[Audio]

[coheres]

I have this feeling we'll just talk ourselves in circles over this, Cole. You know how I feel and I know how you do and we both know neither of our opinions will change.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

I can try.

[Audio]

[coheres]

Why bother?

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

People need people who care.

[Audio]

[coheres]

People need to prove that they deserve even an ounce of my care. [ All right, not really. She's pretty quick to offer her assistance to others, even straight up strangers, but she's also quick to ditch them if they end up proving a risk to herself. ]

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

People need help.

[Audio]

[coheres]

And that help can come in the form of cleansing fire or a bullet to the head.

Re: [Audio]

[fadeling]

It depends.