009 ✞ [VIDEO] - Backdated to before the fog rolls in....

[unetrustworthy]

[Midii payed close attention to the Network.  Often.  She saw the conversation passing publicly between individuals.  Noticed the patterns occurring.  Such as the recent increase in people disappearing.  Possibly being sent home.  Coincidently, starting from soon after the Emperor had been killed, except Midii didn't think it was a coincidence.]

[But that wasn't why she came to the Network that day.]

[She had a different question in mind.  Something she had been wondering about more and more, with every conversation she carried here:]

What if...somebody doesn't want to go home?  

Could they make us?  Or would they let us stay?

[Hypothetically speaking, of course.]

[Only it wasn't hypothetical at all.]

Comments

Re: video;

[denyamenti]

Ah, my mistake then. It's just, I would be worried if my situation were different.

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[unetrustworthy]

Different...how?

[Did that mean this was another person who wanted to go back home?]

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[denyamenti]

Mm, well... I wouldn't want to leave my father alone.

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[unetrustworthy]

[That hit her, right in the heart.]

[There were four things back in her world she missed dearly. Her littlest brother, Michel...the twins...and her Papa. The reasons she had done what she did, even at the risk of her own life. Only they would be alright now. The alliance promised. She upheld her end, which meant the money for food and medicine would be sent back home.]

[It was what she kept telling herself every time she felt that pang of guilt at wanting to stay in Keelai.]

He has nobody else to take care of him?

Re: video;

[denyamenti]

No, it's just... he and I.

[ Bakura didn't actively choose to speak of his host's family and past very often but there were certain situations, like this one, where the thief could use it to his advantage by paralleling it to others and Bakura did so shamelessly. ]

He's very often away for work but I think it helps him to know I'm all right.

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[unetrustworthy]

[Away for work. At least he wasn't ill. That was a small comfort.]

What does he do?

Re: video;

[denyamenti]

He's an archaeologist and works for the university museum.

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[unetrustworthy]

An...archeologist?

[She perks up a little at this. It wasn't her favorite area of study ever, but it was an area of study. And it meant that his father was possibly a scholar of some kind. Like Jor-El.]

That sounds really interesting. Does he like it?

Re: video;

[denyamenti]

He does, yes. He's very well respected among his peers and he's always said that he likes traveling to new places, making new discoveries.

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[unetrustworthy]

How do you check in with him, then, if he's always traveling? Does he come home often?

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[denyamenti]

We speak on the phone quite a bit but... he doesn't return home very much now, anymore.

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[unetrustworthy]

At least that means there's still a chance he won't worry so much right away?

[Maybe?]

Re: video;

[denyamenti]

Well... those were the different circumstances I was thinking of originally.

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[unetrustworthy]

I understand.

Either way, I hope you can find a way of talking to him again soon, if you miss him that much.

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[denyamenti]

Thank you. I hope so too.