dramadramaduck | [video/written]

[video]

[the video feed comes in dim and flickering, like the camera is snapping on and off or being covered by someone... turning... pages? The sound of rustling paper certainly indicates the latter.

There are glimpses of an elaborate ceiling high above in the gloom, domed and painted bright colours, perhaps a palace or a temple. Closer to the 'camera' is the face of a young woman with grey eyes and long ash brown hair, tied back in a ponytail. It definitely isn't Takiko, but the post seems to be coming from Takiko's journal...?

The young woman is frowning, her expression becoming more and more suspicious as she continues to flip through pages. She doesn't seem to care that the front of her sleeping robe is gaping open, revealing ~~boobs and~~ a heavy swath of bandages running diagonally across her chest and a — mark? tattoo? — of the Japanese symbol for 'woman', 女, just below her collarbone. Enjoy the show, ducks.

She's downright scowling by the time she reaches the end of the entries, muttering a quick curse and an 'Idiot girl' as she looks away and slams the book closed]

[handwritten]

Oi, where is all of this coming from? Just who are you, and what are you saying to Takiko?

[the entry comes only minutes after the video feed, and handwriting is rough and angular, not at all like Takiko's usual elegant hand]

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[Where did you get to now, Uruki?

Now that she is more appropriately clothed (as in, clothed at all), Takiko is going to be proactive about keeping track of you.]

[you're probably going to have mixed feelings about finding him in your room, huh

It sure isn't difficult to find him, not with him responding to all the voice posts. It's a wonder the others haven't investigated yet]

[...she is pretty sure everyone is meant to have their own room, you know. She supposes Tomite is busy ignoring Uruki and Hatsui is probably intimidated by the noise, so she'll be the one to open the door and ask the obvious question.]

Who are you talking to?

[flinches, but is quick to cover up the guilty expression with one of irritation]

I should be asking you that question. What the hell is this? Are you just telling a bunch of strangers about us?

It's a community that lets you talk to people from other worlds. And the people I talk to aren't strangers, they're my friends.

How do you know that? A bunch of them tried to lie to me already! [even if it was really badly]

Do you even know where that thing comes from?!

They're just teasing you. [Though she can't say some of it doesn't seem a little out of line...

She frowns at the second question.] ...The internet. [Okay yeah she has no idea what she's talking about.

You have no idea, do you?

Do you know where your powers come from? Some mysterious things just happen!

Wh— that's not the point! Besides, they're probably from Genbu!

For all you know there could be spies on that thing! And you're just going around using our names and talking to whoever you feel like!

I knew people on the community for months before I became the priestess. The only spy is you!

That's even more suspicious!

How could that be more suspicious! I didn't know I was going to become the priestess, and I'm sure-

[father didn't know. But is that true? Father had tried to keep her away from the book. But he had never wanted her. What if...no, it didn't make sense. It didn't.]

I'm sure father had no idea either. [The determination is gone from her voice, though.]

Something did! Why else would something like that show up in your world?!

I don't know! It shows up in all sorts of places for all sorts of people!

[ugh, more weird strangers from other worlds in an already complicated situation... but on the other hand, magic]

I'm showing it to the oracle when we get to Turning Point Rock Field. If she says it's no good, we burn it.

[Takiko bites her lip. She has friends on the community. Giving that up...

But Uruki does have a point. And even if the community is exactly what she thinks it is, it can't hurt to have the Oracle confirm it.]

...Alright.

[...relaxes]

Jeez, the stuff you get into...

It's not just me.

It's definitely you. I'd almost think you enjoy it.

[it's. it's hard to tell if he's teasing or not]

If anyone does, I think it would be you.

[You're the one who keeps coming back after running off.]

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