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[Static. Static that gives way to a blurry, shaky camera arc, clearing on a section of the wall outside of the Inner City. But like the Animus posts, there's no PCD on the other side of the recording. It just... is, transmitting itself with no apparatus.

The image eventually sharpens. A small fish- mostly green- swims in quick loops, darting around the screen. Considering all the water, it doesn't look out of place.

A single voice finally cuts in, though it fades in and out.]

Hello!

It's much brighter out here.

[Something has left the Inner City.]

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Did you help them?

[Raven listens attentively and takes mental notes, checking Thalatte's list against the groups she already knows of: the fire, the orchid and the fish.]

What about the sword and the rose? [And more importantly.] What about her? That "she" you keep warning us against?

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[They were going the right way, actually. Fran gives no resistance to the fish on his head.]

[Group names were a new thing, and Fran is making sure to record this conversation.]

[He's hesitant- there's a thing that's been chewing at his mind. Hitsugaya always pushed it aside, kept it merely as a bad thought that they weren't looking to prove true or not. But he wants to know, to just confirm or deny that feeling.]

[He'll wait, though, until Raven's question is answered.]

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[She doesn't seem to mind the questions so far, content to half-nestle on Fran's head. Her voice carries a low trill of brass.]




((OOC: Just as a heads up, it's 3:30AM now, so I need to head to sleep. ;~; But I'll catch up tomorrow later today!))

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[Well, it does make sense that the bird would be the rose, because it had asked about Raven's name. But the fact that the fire is the sword will not be good news to Rei. Because the sword is definitely not an ally, if Raven's meeting with it is anything to go by. That said her main question remains unanswered. Anyway she chooses to let the opportunity to Cas or Fran to ask it again or ask different questions. She can come back to this later if need be.]

[[ooc: Good night! <3]]

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[There's a definite silence from Fran after all of that- really, none of these people were mentioned to him when he went to the inner city. No matter, he's hearing them now and that's that.]

[He swallows a bit before talking.]

Wherever you are in the inner city, it is only animus, these groups, there, correct?

[The "and no one else" is implied.]

[ooc: nightnight! :D]

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[She hums. It sounds almost jazzy.]

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Where were you before you were brought to Adstringendum? Where do you come from?

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[It isn't the answer he was looking for, but it doesn't exactly shoot down that rather unpleasant theory that he had developed.]

[He gets a bit into his own thoughts and listening for the answer to Raven's question to ask one of his own, but he does point Castiel in the right direction towards his mansion.]

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[Well that's not... much of an answer. But it could mean that Thalatte doesn't know the name of her home world. Raven keeps quiet. Cas and Fran may have more relevant questions than she has right now.]

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[Seeing that everyone was silent, Fran decides that this may be the best time to ask the question he's not sure he wants answered.]

....

Were you always like this? As in, being in this strange, non-human form?

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Is there someone or something actively preventing you from leaving this place, or can you simply not find the exit?

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[That sort of earns Fran another bite, but she settles down immediately after.]

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[Raven nods at Thalatte's remark.] It is indeed. [She's been to other planets and seen too many weird things to consider humans as a default. She's not even fully human...]

How are the people brought here? Do you know this?

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[Again, the information that he wanted to know wasn't exactly confirmed or denied, but it was a step in the direction he wanted.]

[Giving a small flinch at the bite, he tugs on Castiel's trench-coat.]

It's not far from here.

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[Burrow burrow on Fran's head, content enough to be led around.]

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And so you're not the ones sending people back either?

[Just as Raven had been thinking since her incursion into the Inner City. But if the Animus are not responsible for this, here goes their main hypothesis.]

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[There's a sudden shift in the landscape- an illusion is being released.]

[Suddenly, the Varia mansion looms ahead in the distance- an impressive, old Italian mansion that looks like it's seen better days, even if the coral reef that has grown from it was removed.]

[Fran stays silent, thinking of how to word his next question to get the best answers, ignoring the little fishes' burrowing.]

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