betamax | 004 ☾it wasn't me

[PUBLIC -- (accidental) video]

[The Network is treated to an awkwardly-angled view of Liam's face, staring up his nose because this is a great way to address the masses. He looks worried, edging towards anxious, but determined to keep his cool about it anyway.]

I didn't do it.

[PACK FILTER]

[The angle's better now, although Liam seems no less uneasy about things for the change.]

Uh, so I found Kira? If anyone was...looking for her.

[He tilts the camera to show her, slumped on the floor but propped up against the piano stool. Like that helps. It doesn't make her look any less unconscious for sitting up.]

[SPAM -- Music Room]

[He's not sure what he's looking at, initially.

He'd been passing by, on his way somewhere else, when he catches the form out of the corner of his eye, as well as Kira's scent. Nothing to make that big a deal about on its own, but he moves closer and she's lying on the floor. Maybe she could just be on the floor, maybe she's just resting or something, but when he gets there, it's obvious something's wrong.

He addresses her, calls her name once or twice, but she doesn't move. He crouches down to shake her shoulder, and she still doesn't move. Shit. She's a kitsune, she's not supposed to be just...lying there.]

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I don't know, maybe?

[Probably. But if he says it's not, maybe it won't be?]

Shit.

We're all going. One by one.

No, that doesn't...that's not what it means. It might not even be a coma, okay?

Then what is it?

[If it's not a coma, that's even worse, as far as Tiffany is concerned. That would mean they don't know what it is, what caused it, or how to get rid of it.]

How am I s'posed to know? I'm not a doctor. But just because it keeps happening to people doesn't mean we're all gonna end up that way.

[Maybe. He hopes.]