[oh holy shit that's the body Akechi dragged in. That answers some questions.
Erika watches Hinata's exchange with her first, and skims some other conversations, and waits for the sour-stomach feeling of deep misgivings to fade. It doesn't quite. That'll have to be fine. The clean, mathematical process of building a custom filter puts down the bones of routine; she plans out what she'll say, then counts down to it in the seconds it takes for the code to do its work.]
You're the only one recorded.
[Erika's voice is young and rather flat, pressed clean of emotional creases. "I'm glad you're okay" - Hinata covered that. Erika isn't sure if she can say it without feeling like she's lying, because "okay" is a relative measure. And they're strangers anyways, in all the ways currently relevant, and she's not sure that condolences out of her mouth will be of any help.
Pause.]
My body isn't quite the same as it was before waking up here. It might be related. [Pause.] How clear are your memories of - I want to gather information. Subjective information. Do you - can I ask questions?
[There is the faintest rumpling of that flatness, an awkward fumbling in her tone that slips free for a moment.]
video; un: hudie; PRIVATE PRIVATE LOCKED DOWN FUCK OFF RYO
Erika watches Hinata's exchange with her first, and skims some other conversations, and waits for the sour-stomach feeling of deep misgivings to fade. It doesn't quite. That'll have to be fine. The clean, mathematical process of building a custom filter puts down the bones of routine; she plans out what she'll say, then counts down to it in the seconds it takes for the code to do its work.]
You're the only one recorded.
[Erika's voice is young and rather flat, pressed clean of emotional creases. "I'm glad you're okay" - Hinata covered that. Erika isn't sure if she can say it without feeling like she's lying, because "okay" is a relative measure. And they're strangers anyways, in all the ways currently relevant, and she's not sure that condolences out of her mouth will be of any help.
Pause.]
My body isn't quite the same as it was before waking up here. It might be related. [Pause.] How clear are your memories of - I want to gather information. Subjective information. Do you - can I ask questions?
[There is the faintest rumpling of that flatness, an awkward fumbling in her tone that slips free for a moment.]