✉ IC Contact

[escapedpandora]

--just dropped it, it's fine. It's been through a lot more than just being dropped, that's for sure.

[A pause, and faint murmurings.]

Oh. Yeah, I can get on that right now. Be back in an hour or so?

[Aaaand then it's just be muffled clothing scraping over the speakers noise after he puts the phone in his pocket. Continue until end recording.]

[He sounds a bit embarrassed, especially for having been caught out on the last completely unintentional message.]

Hi, this is Hope. Um. If I'm not picking up, it means I might have left the phone behind by accident? But I'll reply back if you leave a message!

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[oxbridgethegap]

[Hope will probably hear the sigh, soft though it is.]

You may want to change that recording of yours.

[escapedpandora]

[Oops! Someone had no idea...]

Oh! Um. Recording?

[Hey, cool, he got a message, but he didn't know he had a recording, too...]

[oxbridgethegap]

Yes, your recording. [You can practically hear the eyebrow raise in that tone.] You haven't noticed?

[escapedpandora]

[...What recording? There might be a long pause as he fiddles with the phone. He hadn't known people could leave messages on that thing, it looked so old...

Oh. Wait. That recording.

Oops.

There might be an embarrassed noise from his end when he finds that.]

[oxbridgethegap]

[He didn't think that was on purpose, but now he has confirmation. Charles chuckles.]

I see you've found it.

[escapedpandora]

[Oh man he was lucky that recorded only what seemed like a normal conversation or something.]

--ahhhh, yeah, I'll get that changed.

[EMBARRASSED.]

Sorry.

[frostborn]

_{[Guess who's discovering how to spam inboxes?]}

Hope! Hey, Hope! What size are your feet?

[escapedpandora]

[Bwah.]

Um. Why?

[frostborn]

I asked first!

[escapedpandora]

What do you need my shoe size for?

[But still, he answers that.]

[frostborn]

It's a surprise! Prepare yourself for some fun.

_{[Now would be the time for some dramatic music. Maybe the Scream theme.]}

[escapedpandora]

[oh god why what has he gotten himself into

There is a moment of silence.]

...What did you do?

video, backdated to sunday night

[tsundaga]

[ Her tone's low, tense, but she's making an effort to soften it a little. This shit's getting to her, and she's fighting it with every ounce of her willpower, but that's her problem, not Hope's.

The video shows a crude map of the town that she's sketched, with a darkened X on a building on the south end a good distance from the general population. ] I'll be here if you need me.

[ And before he can express worry: ] Don't. Just... stay safe. [ And the call cuts. ]

Backdated to Dec. 25, the day of the snowball fight!

[frostborn]

_{[Ring, ring! Someone's calling you, and quite persistently, too. Jack sincerely hopes Hope hasn't ditched his phone again, or things are going to be way less fun with another search-and-rescue to deal with.]}

Come outside!

[escapedpandora]

[...He hasn't ditched his phone this time, although it's after the dinner and he's a bit bewildered.]

Why?

[frostborn]

_{[Always with the 'why's, this kid. Extra prompting might be needed, which is why Jack raises his voice a few octaves.]}

Because there's something on fire and I can't put it out! Why are you asking questions!? Just come out front right now before I melt!

_{[... Hmm, too much?]}

[escapedpandora]

[YOU DON'T MELT, JACK, HE TOTALLY DOESN'T BELIEVE YOU

but fire

and fires are dangerous

and what if

BUT NO.]

...You don't melt!

[It's a protest that goes with him running for, oh, he doesn't know what, a pail to carry water in?]

[frostborn]

I'm Jack Frost! Frost!

<sub>[He bellows it into the phone in the tone of someone in mortal peril before abruptly hanging up

BRB LAUGHING HIMSELF SICK.]</sub>

[escapedpandora]

[URG, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO HIM, JACK.

FINE. FINE.

HE'LL GO HELP. SOMEHOW.]

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[tsundaga]

[ backdated to the middle-ish of this post.

The audio feed turns on with a burst and a bit of barely-controlled breathing. ]

Hope-- [ A sort of gasp, and the phone falls away from her face for a second--he can probably hear hoofbeats for a second. Then she's back. ]

I'm out of time!

I-- [ Her breathing gets a bit more ragged, and then she gives up on the call altogether. She wanted to warn him, and at least she managed that much. All at once, after another six or so hoofbeats, the line goes dead. She won't pick back up if he tries to reconnect. Sorry, Hope. Be safe. :c ]

[escapedpandora]

[Well then, he's just going to keep calling her because what is even going on--!

Brb, waking up Vanille to go look for Light.]

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[oxbridgethegap]

[Of the acquaintances he'd made in his previous time, Hope is among the few that had made an impression on Charles with his friendliness. It doesn't take him long to decide to check in on the young man.]

Hope. It seems I was removed from the premises without my knowledge for some time. Have you been well?

[escapedpandora]

[He almost doesn't believe it for a while, but...]

It's been a really long while.

[oxbridgethegap]

So I've been told.

[Some silence on his end as he tries to find something to say.]

Have they been giving everyone much trouble since I left?

[escapedpandora]

That--

[He cuts off.]

Would it be bad if I said 'just the usual around here'?

[Because then it felt like he was getting used to it or something...]