...

[There is an extremely long pause that follows once the recording starts. One that almost makes you wonder if Utena meant to turn on her communicator at all. But then she lets out a heavy sigh, and the faintest sound of a pillow being squeezed tightly between her arms can be heard.]

I'm... ...not very good at this, am I?

Prydain and Seifer... you were both counting on me, and I only let you down... I let myself be controlled, and acted out selfishly. I forgot who it was that I was really supposed be protecting in the first place, and in the end...

...

I couldn't protect anyone at all.



...I'm sorry.

[Click.]

[[ooc After watching so many of her friends die right in front of her and recalling how she was affected by the chip, Utena has been moping around in her room for the last two days and cutting herself off from mostly everyone else. - I'm sorry for the lack of tags during the event itself. I was having some unexpected voice issues.]]

[Click. The video starts recording face up toward... a hand? More than likely Utena's hand, even if she doesn't seem to notice it. She can be heard walking a few steps, along with the faint sloshing sound of water being shifted around in an old metal bucket.

After a moment, she ends up setting each of the items down one at a time. The communicator down on its side, and the bucket located somewhere off screen. For the moment, only the girl's shoes can be seen, and something can be heard being dipped into water and promptly pulled out. Soon she can be seen walking away with an old shoe brush in hand, dripping with water from the bristles. From this distance, the viewer can see that she standing in front of one of the walls Sho Minamimoto vandalized, dressed in an old hand-me-down blue jogging outfit with her hair tied back into a pony tail. Strangely enough, some of the tips of her hair seem to be stained with red.

Some of the paint on the wall has already been scrubbed away in some places, but just barely. As she rubs the shoe brush against the wall, Utena can be heard muttering incoherently but vehemently on occasion before the recording times out.]

[There is a soft hiss along with the sound of a bandage being peeled off. Aged adhesive is a bastard.]

...looks like it's almost gone.

[She shrugs part of her jacket back on, giving it a light tug at the sleeve.] ...Mm? Oh man... Maybe I should try to learn how to sew. It's not like I'm going to be able to find a replacement uniform in this place.

[Sigh] Um... Hikaru, Kaoru... I'm really sorry if I let you both down. I ended up getting lost in that weird fog from before. That and... ["...I really should have asked for more details on the perp."] Well, I just messed up. Let me know if I can ever make it up to you, okay? It's the least I can do.

loyal_inferno? How are you feeling? I hope that you were able to find your friends again after that whole mess. ...You're really not that bad a fighter either. [She lets out a short laugh.]

What else...

[There's an audible click as she starts to flip through old posts.] The exploring team...

[Another click, followed by an uneccessarily long pause compliments of Rolo's Geass.]

AHHHHH!

[[ooc Oh, she saw what you did there, crystal_eyed. Also, possibly backdated if this falls out of the range of the Geass on the second day. ]]

[The communicator is bumped on with an audible clatter as the pocket of her jacket is slammed roughly into a wall, and the sound of something metal can be heard falling to the ground with a clatter.]

Ouch... It's so cool and ░░░░░░░m the fog. My fingers are starting to get sore from c░░░░░░░░ ░░░ sword all this time.

[She takes a breath, letting out a deep sigh.] How can it be this hard...? ░░░░░░░ is only a block away, and I swore that I would ░░░░░░ for them.

...

Better hurry.


[After a moment, she leans down to pick up the fallen weapon with a grunt, and then proceeds to simply keep on walking forward through the dense fog.]

[[ooc Not as planned.]]