fluxnet | 0125/21 - evening: video

[ There are two very distressed and alarmed looking teenagers on the screen, dressed in hoodies and clearly one-hundred percent hiding out in a blanket fort. It’s Gwen Stacy and her best friend Miles.

They look like they have important things to share, and Gwen takes the lead on that one. ]

So!! So...uh…

[ Try as Gwen might, she sounds high-strung and nervous. Even the smile on her face might make some think of that dog in a hat, sitting in a room on fire and going ‘This is fine!’

Everything is not fine. ]

So...there are most certainly things out there. In the cold. In the dark. I didn’t get a look at them, but whatever it was just chased Miles and I back home from the arcade in town. It sounded...really big. And fuckin’ scary…

[ And it’s probably a bad sign if Gwen is scared. ]

...and everything got really cold. Like...a lot colder. When it started chasing us. Uh…

[ Oh, god. She’s 404’d. She looks at Miles, hoping he’ll take over because all she can think right now is ‘what the actual fuck’ over and over. Worst. Mantra. Ever. ]

[Looking back at Gwen, Miles takes her hand, needing to hang on just as much as he’s trying to comfort her. Because he looks pretty shaken up himself, and it takes him a few minutes before he can manage to speak.]

Listen, just uh...make sure you get inside when it starts getting dark, yeah? I know everyone around here keeps warning us about it, but it’s definitely no joke. Even just the sounds the...whatever it is was making.

Seriously, stay indoors. Hopefully everything changes again soon and we can leave this thing behind.

[He turns back to Gwen, in case she has anything left to add.]

Yeah. Seriously. Follow the curfew. I know we’re all probably over this place changing as much as it does, but I’m good to go this time. And...maybe make sure you have people that you can contact in case you are out past curfew by accident, like we were. Like some kind of...digital buddy system or a phone tree or something. You call a couple people, they call a couple people. Keep track of your friends and family.

[ Squeezing Miles hand slightly, she offers him a very brief and very shaky smile that vanishes. She looks tired. Terrified. Over all of it. She just turns her Fluxphone off and leaves it off. She really hopes people take her advice, because she can’t fight something that 1: scares the ever-loving shit out of her and 2: she can’t even track, herself. ]

[ ooc: gwen is in blue and miles is in red. expect replies from one or both. ]