Video → CALL Network → un: bathory

[murdermode]

[The video clicks on to a young-looking male, who waves cheerfully at the camera.]

Testing, testing, is this thing on ~ ?

[He laughs, amused, knowing full well that it is. He's not technologically incompetent, after all.]

What does everyone do for fun here? Do tell, I'm so curious to know. Where to go, what to see... ~

[He's smiling as he speaks. Anyone who knows him might call it an infuriating smile, but it comes off as cheerful and innocent and he waves again, before the video feed clicks off.]

Comments

[boundinblood]

[Wait, what? Katherine gives the man - who appears to be an elf to her - a long look. The clothing isn't terribly alien, but also is, somehow. And he holds himself with noble bearing, not something one would find on an elf with a face clear of tattoos most of the time, save those of rank within the Circle.

"Bathory" doesn't sound like an elf's name or anything associated with any elf culture, but at the same time, who's to say it's not something from a favorite book, or the name of a pet, or a friend, or a place? It could be anything.]

I'm so sorry, that's a terrible thing to happen to a people. But it sounds like something I've heard of... What was this capital called?

[murdermode]

It was called Sanguinem ~ ! [Ferid's feigned sadness is still there, though he "manages" a small smile.]

It was a wonderful place, filled to the brim with books on every subject under the sun, peace and prosperity reigned and all who lived there were well taken care of ~

[boundinblood]

[...That name isn't familiar. So he's not an early elf, then. Is he even Thedosian? The way he lingers on the end of every sentence is bizarre, and a little grating, like it's too cheerful. She's not used to that kind of thing from adults.

But maybe that's his way of trying to cope? She only just started talking to him, after all.]

I'm sorry. I can see why some...greedier people might want that for themselves. Especially if the inhabitants look different enough they can justify it.