18 * [accidental video]

[starchilde_lost]

[The video feed opens on a darkened bedroom, sparse, looks like it's in one of the empty apartments somewhere in the City. There's a young woman on the bed, Rachel, gripped in a nightmare, tossing and turning. Suddenly, her eyes open and she sits up in bed, a blue, raptor-shaped aura flaring to life around her.]

Gram'pa! No!

[The aura fades as she buries her face in her hands. On her back you can just make out the outline of a black raptor underneath her top, it looks like a tattoo. With a jerk, Rachel looks up and around the room.]

...get a grip, Grey, Korvus isn't here, none of them are.

[She mutters to herself a bit more, some choice Shi'ar curses if you understand it, and finally spies the Network device recording on the nightstand. She stops and stares at it.]

Crap.

...Um, shit.

[She flares blue again and reaches toward the device. The feed ends.]

[audio]

I suppose it's too much to ask that you all just forgot you saw that for a few more days, isn't it?

[ooc: Forward-dated to late tonight because I might try and sleep early (ha!), and a warm City!welcome-back to Rachel. Scotty and Chekov - feel free to realize that Rachel was the source of that energy you were chasing.]

Comments

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

Rachel. Hello.

[starchilde_lost]

Hi, Laura.

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

You are back.

[starchilde_lost]

Little sooner than I intended, but yeah. I'm back.

How are you?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

Fine.

Did you want to return?

[starchilde_lost]

No and no, to be honest. I was kinda in the middle of something when I got hauled back here.

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

Understood.

[starchilde_lost]

'Preciate that.

How long was I gone - how long have you been here?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

You have been missing for twelve days.

I have been here for fifteen days.

[starchilde_lost]

Knew I should have asaked Logan that sooner.

God, it feels so much longer on my end.

Have you gotten kinda settled?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

How long were you in our original universe for?

I have.

[starchilde_lost]

Feels like a few lifetimes, but just a couple years. A lot changed.

That's good? Did you decide... did you get a job?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

I see.

I have two.

[starchilde_lost]

Overachiever. Doing what?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

I rejected a third job.

Repairing cars and working in a book store.

[starchilde_lost]

Of course you did.

Those sound interesting. And normal. That's good, real good.

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

Yes. I am doing normal things.

[starchilde_lost]

Logan and Kitty are looking out for you?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

I was looking out for Kitty.

[starchilde_lost]

So was I.

I saw, thanks. That was not the best of curses for her to get hit with, was it?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

Her attitude towards sex was contrary to our previous discussions.

[starchilde_lost]

Her attitude toward sex was contrary to her entire life.

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

That also.

[starchilde_lost]

Have you been cursed yet?

[notaweapon.livejournal.com]

I have not.