video;

[brokethecamera]

[The feed is slightly shaky as Mai is recording from her cell phone. She has a crooked smile on her face as she looked at the camera.]

I don't suppose anyone's gotten any strange...gifts today?

[She turns the phone so that the camera focuses away from her, and instead reveals a desk with a broken video camera set on it. Broken pieces of the lens are scattered around it, and there was a large crack along the side of the camera's body.

Mai's voice could be heard off-camera.]

It's the camera I broke back when I first met Naru. I'm almost sure of it. [For a moment her voice is almost sad. She sighs slightly before her usual cheer picks up again.]

I'm just wondering if it's community related or something else. So any other strange things going on?

Comments

[kendoleaf]

Yeah. I know. I mean, you'd think it'd want to give it a rest with everything sometime, right? Though I guess it doesn't need a break since it's not alive.

[brokethecamera]

I feel like I've kind of gotten used to it all now.

[kendoleaf]

I'm honestly surprised that I'm not used to this place yet. I've been part of it for almost a year now...

[brokethecamera]

That's alright. I've been here almost three years and somethings still catch me off guard.

[kendoleaf]

... I keep forgetting that this community's been around for a long time. It's really been doing all this stuff for over three years now?

[brokethecamera]

It really has! I can't count how many weird things have happened to me.

[kendoleaf]

I was afraid that you'd say something like that.

... I guess the only thing I can really do is try to get used to it, right?

[brokethecamera]

Yeah. There's lots of good things to make up for them though.

[kendoleaf]

Yeah. As much as all the viruses and stuff are a pain, there's really no way that I can bring myself to completely hate this place.

[brokethecamera]

That's it exactly.

I'm Mai, by the way. Taniyama Mai.

[kendoleaf]

I'm Kirigaya Suguha. It's nice to meet you, Taniyama-san.

[brokethecamera]

It's nice to meet you, too! I hope the community doesn't trouble you too much.

[kendoleaf]

Thanks. I hope it doesn't trouble you all that much either.

... Well, I guess anymore than it already has, anyway.