tushanshu | 004 ♒ Audio & Text [Atlantean], Encrypted

[Encrypted Audio to anyone who might have known Mera or anyone on fairly good terms with Arthur, 60%]
[Arthur just sounds... tired. Resigned. He doesn't mince words trying to break the news gently, because he's the one who cares the most anyway.] Mera, my wife, has disappeared from Keeliai.

[Encrypted Audio to Kal-El/Superman, 80%]
I need to talk to you.

[Encrypted Text to Kaldur'ahm, Written Atlantean, Hackable]
[Feel free to have your character hack his text, but if they do, all they'll come up with is a bunch of odd symbols and glyphs arranged into what are possibly words. Atlantean is a fairly difficult language to parse through.]

Mera is... gone. There was no trace of her this morning, and I can't find her mental signature. Please come by when you get a chance, Kaldur, we need to talk about something important.

[ooc: He's being an antisocial douchebag, but anybody who knows him is absolutely welcome to just come by his place in the Water Sector. The first audio post I'm leaving pretty open-ended on purpose, feel free to just assume your character was included if they know him or Mera, or know OF them. Also feel free to hack it, it's all good.]

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[He's a little surprised when he sees the face on the other end. He's been so wrapped up in his own little world lately that he must have missed this person's arrival...]

Barry, I didn't know you were here. [But he shakes his head slightly.] No, it's- it's alright. She's back in Atlantis where she belongs.

[Barry cracks a small smile.]

I was getting up to speed on a few things. Sorry for being late.

[Not that Arthur should even be surprised by that at this point. But his smile fades as the conversation flows back to Mera. He can't imagine what Arthur is feeling, to have had her and then lost her. Iris isn't here either but she never was, and he's only ever known being without her since he's arrived.]

Some might argue that she belongs next to you. Or you next to her. [But that won't make things better, will it.] Why was she the only one that left, instead of the both of you?

Some things never change. [He manages a slight, wry smile. This is Barry, after all, who might not be his best friend in the world (it's hard to say who that would even be, besides his wife and Garth) but... he was the first person that ever really seemed alright on the surface, besides Arthur's father. He's the reason Arthur got dragged into this life, and it hasn't been so bad, trying to bridge the two worlds.]

Atlantis needs its queen as much as, or more than, I need my wife. [Their marriage has gotten stronger, but it's still a royal marriage, and they both have duties. But then he pauses, frowns slightly.] ...That I don't know. We arrived together months ago, I don't know why she left and I'm still here.

[Barry would disagree, but he's a simple man with a simple life and knows nothing of ruling a kingdom and all the associated intricacies and technicalities that come with it. So he says nothing, focusing instead on the puzzle of how one had left alone when two had arrived together.]

How do the disappearances work anyway? One day she's here and the next she's completely gone?

[It's an uncomfortable question, but this whole thing is uncomfortable. It feels wrong, to be here without Mera.]

I don't know. She was just... gone. Her mental signature isn't in the city, and she wouldn't have left for the shell's edge without telling me.

004 ♒ Audio & Text [Atlantean], Encrypted

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