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

[Text forever~ because he can't talk.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[You are not hanging up yet, Kudou.]

idk when hell be here he didnt say. he said aya didnt know hes tellin the truth rite?

u saw that?

[still video :P because Youji is a lazy ass like that.]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Well, Ran said you were dead. Of course I'm going to want to check for myself.

[You are not coming back as Masafumi Takatori's bitch just to mess with my head kthx.]

I haven't spoken to Aya in a few days, so I can't say for sure. I sure as hell hope she doesn't. Given Sena's continued existence, and that I know for a fact you have at least three more years on your Earthly lease, I was certainly hoping she could go without finding out.

[beat.]

You can call back in video, you know. I don't care if you look like hell; I'm rather used to it.

[Text: Video would mean doing this by sign language. Ken doesn't know sign language.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Do I want to know what I looked like?]

oh.

sorry youji it was an accident. but i really dont want her 2 know i mean im back right so maybe she doesnt have 2?

im txtin cause i cant talk i did sumthin 2 my throat do we have a note pad

[Video: He doesn't know how to text, either <3333]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

I have a few sketchpads lying around. I'm sure I can't use them all.

[Damn right something happened to his throat. Youji rather hopes this isn't permanent.]

I'm certainly not going to bring it up. If anyone asks, I'll just say you've been sleeping off a fever or something.

[1/2] [Text, because that doesn't mean he's about to stop.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[He can't be hoping as hard as Ken is. It's not like his throat's sore, it's not like his voice has been strained. He just can't talk--]

ok ill use one of them then txtin all the times gonna get old

& thanks youji i apreciate it. i dont wana tell evry1 here theyre bad enough about ur dreams never mind sumthin lyk this.

[2/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[That would have been it but, s few moments after hitting send, something occurs to Ken and he adds:]

what happend to me

i dont remember so well

[Video: Ken has never known when to stop,]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

[Youji doesn't miss a beat, but his voice takes on that deeper, chillier cadence it does when he suddenly feels serious.]

Is that really something you want to remember?

[Text. You'd think he was broken if he did, admit it.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

no

but it kinda bothers me that i cant though

[Video: And he would be scared!]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

[Youji shakes his head. While disappointed that Ken probably can't point out his murderer now--]

Think of it this way. It means you're less likely to dream about it. And you know it'll get all over the network if you do.

[Text.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

it was that bad?

[... not that he'd be surprised to hear it.]

[video | filtered]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

[Youji sighs. And filters the call.]

You know how we kill people, Ken? When it only hurts because they fight it, but we try to do it clean because it's a job and we need to get out of there?

It wasn't like that.

[text | filtered]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

oh

i kinda guessed it mustve been somthing like that

[It hurt. It wasn't quick and it hurt.]

[video | filtered]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Quit thinking about it.

[Unless you remember who did it. Then I'd kinda like to know.]

It doesn't matter anyway. I told you, I'm pretty sure you have a few years left.

[text | filtered]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

guess ure right.

its not lyk wat happens here really counts neway if i died 4 real i guess id just have woken up back home i think thats how it works right?

[Funny, that hardly seems like a comfort at all, now he thinks of it.]

i guess next time ill get stuff delivered