first lighthouse; VIDEO

[isochrone]

[ Elizabeth is clearly excited by the video feed as it turns on, leaning forward toward the screen. ]

This device is so clever! It's like a voxphone and a kinetoscope put together. Miss Zatanna at the Welcome Center helped get me a bit more familiar with it, but do let me know if I've gotten anything wrong.

Now, this might not be Paris, but it still looks like it will be quite the adventure. In any case, I'm here now, and I intend to make the most of it... my name is Elizabeth.

But I do have a question... is there any way to be positively sure that time has actually stopped, where we're from? I was traveling with someone and, while he certainly wouldn't admit it, I believe he'd be quite upset to find I've disappeared.

[ She offers a smile, which then tinges into something of a grimace. ]

Or more to the point, I believe he'd act quite rashly... since he doesn't always think before he acts, though he means well. Mostly-- I think.

I've been told there are job openings in the city. I don't have any formal training in... well, anything... but I'm very good at picking new things up very quickly if given the chance!

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Re: video;

[isochrone]

[ Elizabeth ponders that; originally she'd thought that she'd gotten here through some sort of atypical Tear, but after seeing how many other 'Foreigners' there were... ]

I suppose that's not impossible, for Mr DeWitt to also get here. He did arrive in Columbia, after all.

[helljumper]

I'm not sure I see the correlation there. Is Columbia a difficult place to get to?

[He's not even trying to hide his confusion, given the distinct shift of his helmet to the side. Though, he supposed it wasn't completely out of the question for other places to be similar to this one - but Columbia sounded very Earth-like.]

[isochrone]

[ Thankfully, Elizabeth is familiar with helmeted people, as many of the security forces of Columbia have similar armor styles, although not quite as completely closed off as this man seems to be. Nonetheless, his appearance isn't quite enough yet to make her perplexed. ]

Well, Columbia floats above the clouds. So it's not very easy for reach, which... well, that's sort of the idea.

[helljumper]

Above the clouds? [Huh. Getting the impression she doesn't mean the atmosphere-level, space station kind of way.]

Guess that would make getting visitors pretty hard, yeah. Is there a particular reason it's up there, or did people just want the nice view?

[isochrone]

It's... well, complicated. It was supposed to be an engineering marvel -- and it is -- but Columbia succeeded from the Union ten years ago.