Entry #88

[postictal]

[The video feed clicks on to feature an unassuming shot of the crisp gray sky, accompanied by the restless crunching of footsteps drawing closer. Abruptly, someone picks up the thing and spins it around with a faint flare of static that's gone as quickly as it flickered up.

There is, briefly, a face visible on the screen, dark hair and dark eyes and brows knit together in an expression puzzlement and concern. Then the feed flips around again and starts panning around the area in a slow sweep, handled in the same way someone might a handheld camera. It's both too familiar and too surreal, and he fumbles at the last second, dropping the angle so the network instead gets a lovely view of scuffed sneakers crunching through a patina of fallen leaves.]

So seasonal change sure is a thing. Like, really a thing. Place doesn't mess around.

[His tone is dry, the words drawn out with a slow, weary indolence. He doesn't seem to realize he's actively broadcasting at the moment. He's just taking video in the same way - how Jay would, and even now the memory is painful and sends a pang of regret thrumming all the way to his bones. It's just such an easy, obvious reflex. Practically instinctive.

The crunching of his footsteps halts abruptly as something seems to occur to him.]

So I can post now instead of reply, is that it? Wait, why now? What makes this so -

[The feed snaps out, evidently by mistake.]

Comments

[video]

[normandysbest]

[Huh. He's not the first to talk about suddenly getting more access. She can't help but wonder if it's a correlation.]

Were you around during the influx of people? Seems like most of 'em left, but there's been a couple saying they're still around. Seems like you might be a regular resident like the rest of us.

video;

[mypartnerincrime]

[Chloe's in her room (where else would she be duh) when she sees this dude's video on the network. The feed cuts off, even before he can finish talking. She hasn't seen him around Wonderland (at least in the few times that she's been out of her room) so Chloe is assuming he's new and is still probably unfamiliar with how to use the device.

She turns on her own video. Chloe points the camera at herself and grins.]

You know, you might wanna turn off the video after you finish talking, not before.

[voice]

[punful]

[In true Sans fashion, he doesn't notice this until like two days later. At least he kind of has an excuse for it.]

[He sounds more subdued than the last time they spoke.]

hey, you're the smoking guy from the roof, right? ended up sticking around, huh?