≈ first breath; voice

[hammerkinds]

[Static starts across the voice feed, followed by some mumbling. It seems someone accidentally clicked it on while they were fiddling with the device.]

Dude, do you remember alchemizing these? I don't remember anything like this in my sylladex... Man, speaking of, where is my sylladex?

Why are you asking me? My sylladex launched my sword into the closest tree it could find. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it was to yank it out with a broken foot? Thanks by the way. I really wanted my toes to get touchy with your hammer. You don't even know. I'm going to get some heinous infection all up in this shit and you're going to have to amputate my foot to save my life or something. Except I refuse, but then we'll get attacked by a swarm of who the fuck even knows and tragically take them down, going down with them. You'll weep over my bloodied corpse. Why Dave? How could you leave me? You were the only bro I could have ever had such a rad bromance with. Now I have nothing. Sweet delicious tears. [Yeah, Dave has no idea where he's going with this too.]

[There's a snort and laughter from the other voice, and even without seeing it's pretty obvious someone is rolling their eyes.]

That didn't even make sense, Dave! But I guess I am sorry that the princess got his foot broken by a hammer that is not even that heavy. Can you ever forgive me?

I take offense to that. How dare you not keep my fragile, maiden tendencies to heart. I have a very delicate complexion going on. But I'll forgive you because I love you. Seriously though, where the fuck are we? I'm two years too early to be wherever we're supposed to be. Fuck if I know. Everything is kind of vague and I think I stopped giving a shit or two since nearly being a victim of trashy novels involving foursomes.

[There's a rustle of fabric. Dave had plopped down next to John, even if you can't see it.] What are you doing?

I am trying to figure out how this thing works. And I am pretty sure I am three years too early to be at the new session. Jade said it would take that long and I just sent you guys that letter. And isn't it kinda weird that we are the only ones here?

[There's more rustling as John fiddles with the functions, turning the communicator over in his hand.] Whoa! I think this thing is on.

Oh my god. You didn't get to see Karkat freak out. It was like the most embarrassing thing. You literally nailed him in the face and he had some major mental breakdown and everything.

Oh shit really? Ok. That's cool I guess. Ask someone where we are. Also if they have a can opener.

Haha, oh man, really? That sounds like something worth seeing! Ok, ok, uhh... Hello? Can anyone hear us? [He's not going to ask your dumb question about the can opener, Dave.]

[ooc| john is in blue, dave is in red!]

Comments

[sthenic]

Er, that's kind of a rough prank to play one someone though, you know?

[knightime]

I guess. He's used to it. Plus, he already knows that I'm not that bad off. If I was actually that terribly injured, he'd know.

[sthenic]

Uh-huh. Guess it's lucky you guys came here together, then.

[knightime]

Got to look at the bright side. I doubt any of us actually wanna be here, but arriving together is better than winding up on your own in the middle of buttfuck nowhere.

[sthenic]

Yeah, no... I get that. It would have sucked to be one of the first people who arrived here, you know?

But... the people here now are really nice, so even if you were without friends from home, you'll probably make a few here.

[knightime]

Yeah, that sounds like a bad day. Figuring out what to do and what not to do.

I don't really want to be here, but that's not really going to do much since none of us probably want to be here.

[sthenic]

Well... not everyone. From what I hear, there are a number of people who are pretty okay with it.

[knightime]

I guess it depends where you came from. Or even when. I can tell you now that there's a few moments in time where if I got snagged during that time, I'd be real chill with it.

But we kind of have things to do.

[sthenic]

You'll get returned to wherever you left off, so you don't have to worry too much about it.

[knightime]

Really? How do you know? Not trying to doubt, but that seems kind of oddly convenient.

[sthenic]

A friend of mine went home and came back, so that's how I know. We talked about it a little.

[knightime]

That's cool. It's not like I would be missing too much, I think, but it's nice to know that nothing will go terribly wrong while we're stuck here. Thanks.

[sthenic]

Yeah, no problem.