Video 08 → My Mistakes, Numbers 4,926 - 5,101

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[The video cuts in to show Ken frowning down into the camera, breathing a little too hard and too fast, and biting his lip. Clearly he is looking for something in one of the Dreamberry's menus, jabbing at the keys beneath the screen; just as clearly he triggered the video feed in the process. The image shakes: he's grasping the Dreamberry as firmly as he can, but it doesn't seem to stop his hands from trembling. Confusion crosses his face for a moment or two as he tries to work out why the screen's changed, then he mutters a frustrated curse, but the audio doesn't seem to pick it up.

[The picture cartwheels madly as he tosses the Dreamberry onto the bank he's sitting on. When it lands and the tumbling stops, the screen shows nothing but a slice of sky, thin skeins of clouds drifting overhead. Sixty seconds later, the feed times out.]

[OOC: Ken's been dead for a week after Muraki murdered him, and has lost his voice as a penalty. Replies will be in the form of text messages, or possibly charades.]

Comments

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Mr. Ken? Whatever is wrong?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... which is about when Ken realizes he shouldn't have just let that video record, should he?

[He looks surprised for a moment, then momentarily guilty. Then he laughs, necessarily silently,eyes falling closed for a moment. Alice. He really is back, isn't he? Back and... and whole, seemingly, he isn't even sore and how does any of that make sense?

[Feeling like something's expected of him, he points to his throat and looks apologetic. Could I pass this off as a cold?]

[soloriens.livejournal.com]

[She has a sense something is wrong, but she has yet to understand what exactly. She tilts her head, emitting a whine to draw attention to herself.]

asdhfasdgh AMMY. *_*

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[He's expecting it now. Sat by the lake with the Dreamberry on his lap, trying to work out where on earth he goes from here, Ken's decided he might as well handle the mess he's made by making this post at all where he is, and then see about finding his way back.

[So he's ready when the wolf shows up, though the red markings and the thing on her back come as something of a surprise. He starts, at first in simple confusion, but can't quite keep back the curiosity. That's really not just a wolf, is it?

[Hello, he's thinking - very likely it shows on his face. Who are you?]

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

... Ken?

[Bad feeling. Definitely a bad feeling about this.]

[text]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[That makes two of us. Ken should be dead. He was dead. And--

[He can't remember why any more.]

hi ive lost my voice sorry. im gonna have 2 txt u

[Is this normal, he wants to ask. And, will it come back? But he doesn't. Here he is back from the dead and he doesn't even know what to say about it...

[So he just hits send.]

[seekingbody.livejournal.com]

...Is everything okay?

[1/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... okay, so he's kind of getting used to this. Ken holds up one finger - could you wait a minute? - and manages a smile, gesturing to his throat. Mouths, again, I can't talk.]

[2/2] [text]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[So you're going to be getting a text message, Al, and as with Alice he's going to attempt to be... well, legible. Know your audience and all that.]

i'm fine i just lost my voice & i kinda overdid it getting out here. i should be fine in a while don't worry about me ok?

[Ken? You're a liar.]

Video

[redabyssinian.livejournal.com]

Ken?

[Right away looking at the background to figure out where the hell Ken is so he can get him.]

[text]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[And he's disconnected the call. Sorry. You're going to be getting a text, Aya, because he's getting tired of the mime artistry.]

hi aya

i cant talk i lost my voice.

[namelessqueen.livejournal.com]

Ken? [ tapping the screen. ] Ke~en~♪

[1/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Oh, great.

[It didn't occur to Ken to try and filter that video. Well, why should it? A few seconds of him trying to work the Dreamberry and then, presumably, a picture of clouds: what's to hide? It probably should have done, though, because here's his Favorite Person In The Entire World come to say hello to him. Ken gives Diva a nasty look, and wishes he could just tell her to go away, but for obvious reasons that's not an option.]

[2/2] [text]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Have an irritated text instead.]

oh hi. what do u want now?

[katona-sziv.livejournal.com]

[Hungary recognizes the boy, but she's shocked to see the state he's in.]

Ken? Is everything alright?

[1/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Here he goes again.

[Ken smiles, or attempts to, and nods, hoping he at least looks vaguely reassuring. Then he gestures to his throat again, mouthing I can't speak - he doesn't know if she can tell what he's trying to say, but figures that with the gestures it's probably kind of obvious.]

[2/2] [text]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[A minute or so later, he sends this text.]

yeah im fine but ive lost my voice, dont worry okay? i guess i mustve caught a cold ill be over it in a couple of days

[It's depressingly easy to lie in text only.]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

[Youji gives himself a moment to get over the shock before replying. This includes checking the caller ID to be sure. Yes.]

Are you going to sit there, or are you planning to come home?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Well. Took you long enough.]

aya said he was coming but hes not here yet id never hear teh end of it if i left w/out him

sorry about the mess

[... but he's actually smiling. One hand over his mouth, wondering why all of a sudden he feels so weird, Ken is actually smiling. There's one more face he thought he'd never see again.]

[1blackcat.livejournal.com]

K... Ken-kun! That's you, isn't it? You're back?!

[text forever~]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Naturally. Who else could fail so spectacularly to check his contacts list for... well, for you, actually, Omi? Took eight other people calling him up, but one way or another Ken's gotten there in the end.]

hi omi i was trying 2 call u i guess i messed up there

sorry 4 making u all worry

[hypnoun.livejournal.com]

[And what is this.]

K-- Ken-san...?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[This is a text message.

[Ken's smiled, he's gestured to his throat - he's getting used to this already - and gone to send an explanatory text, which hopefully explains just enough to keep her from asking any more. There's really only so far he can get with the mime show.]

hi ive lost my voice so im gona have 2 txt you. i was out 2 late yesterdy & i guess i must have a cold or sumthin. dont worry about the video i was trying to call sum1 & hit it by acident

[video]; I am totally not late what makes you think that.

[carrying-hope.livejournal.com]

Ken??

[holy crap he's okay. Well. As okay as he probably can get and omg that's fantastic but still SURPRISE.]

Ken, are you alright?

[stupid question but hey one can be dead and still okay, I mean Sena knows that first hand. He's really hoping that this isn't the same kind of deal.]

[text] NOR AM I DAMMIT

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Sena. What do you know, the gang's all here...

[Ken realizes - it's a guilty realization, but what else can he think? - that he probably needs to talk to Sena. But later, when he can talk: there's got to be one of those. For now, he gives the boy a grin, goes through the same old pantomime. And sends him a text.]

hi sena

im fine ive just lo9st my voice dont worry about me nemore ok?