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

[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.]

[text]

[katona-sziv.livejournal.com]

[And yet somehow, Hungary doesn't want to believe it. Not with the way he was acting beforehand.]

Are you sure? Did you need anything? Some soup perhaps or tea?

[text]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

i should be fine. ive got a friend coming to pick me up he should be here in a bit. and someone else offered to make me some soup so please dont worry im sure ill be fine (*^-^)

thanks for asking tho i apreciate it

[Ken really hopes that sounds reassuring enough. He doesn't want to make her worry.]