❊ First Light
Apr. 30th, 2012 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[The communicator turns on to a scene that's probably all too familiar to people on various worlds by now - someone arguing with the moogles. This time, the voice is relatively young, female, and apparently determined to make her point.]
That can't be! Worlds don't just disappear like that!
I'm sorry, miss, but it's true.
It can't be!
It is, kupo! The Darkness pushed out and-
What?! [The reaction to that statement, though, is probably not all that expected.] The Darkness? The Cloud of Darkness is here?!
[The communicator finally focuses on a petite redheaded girl with brown eyes and a shocked yet serious expression on her face, clearly fixed on the moogle's words. The moogle itself is a bit taken aback by that reaction and has to take a minute to recover.]
I-I wouldn't call it a cloud, exactly, but it's spreading across all of space. Several worlds have been taken by it; the survivors are landing here. Exactly as you did, kupo.
[Refia sighs heavily; they were supposed to be done with this. But she straightens up quickly, squaring her shoulders as she accepts that this isn't exactly going away.]
Then you need to tell me everything; we've got a job to do.
Yes we do, kupo, but who do you mean by "we"?
I mean us, the four... of... us... [And she trails off as she looks around. Obviously she's looking for people she knows; her expression falls as she sees no familiar faces nearby and it's a moment before she can begin speaking again.] Luneth? Arc? ...Ingus?
That can't be! Worlds don't just disappear like that!
I'm sorry, miss, but it's true.
It can't be!
It is, kupo! The Darkness pushed out and-
What?! [The reaction to that statement, though, is probably not all that expected.] The Darkness? The Cloud of Darkness is here?!
[The communicator finally focuses on a petite redheaded girl with brown eyes and a shocked yet serious expression on her face, clearly fixed on the moogle's words. The moogle itself is a bit taken aback by that reaction and has to take a minute to recover.]
I-I wouldn't call it a cloud, exactly, but it's spreading across all of space. Several worlds have been taken by it; the survivors are landing here. Exactly as you did, kupo.
[Refia sighs heavily; they were supposed to be done with this. But she straightens up quickly, squaring her shoulders as she accepts that this isn't exactly going away.]
Then you need to tell me everything; we've got a job to do.
Yes we do, kupo, but who do you mean by "we"?
I mean us, the four... of... us... [And she trails off as she looks around. Obviously she's looking for people she knows; her expression falls as she sees no familiar faces nearby and it's a moment before she can begin speaking again.] Luneth? Arc? ...Ingus?