...

[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.]]

[Private to Prydain and Seifer; Hackable]

There's something that I want to talk to you about. Well... maybe it's more like asking for a favor.

I've brought someone back to the rowhouse, and I'm letting her stay with me for awhile. At least long enough to keep her safe until she figures things out here.

Someone from my own world was brought here. (...or maybe you can call it few someones?) Her name is Hime- ah... Anthy Himemiya. We were roommates back at Ohtori Academy.

Anyway... I'm kind of sorry that this is on such short notice. But then again, most things here are like that, huh? I just felt like you should know what's going on here.

[/]

( Private to Cube; Hackable )

[She lets out a breath, flopping over a table and muttering halfway into it.] Earthquakes that turn out to be volcanic tremors... big cracks in the street that I nearly tripped over in the ash-filled darkness, murderers and monsters... [Groan] I'm tired. Why can't my life in middle school ever be normal?

[[ooc Assuming that Utena helped escort Anthy back to the Gohl Ave. rowhouse across the street, commentlogs for the two of them are go!]]

Okay, that's it. No more excuses.

Prydain, you've mentioned something about there being morning training before, right? I'm going.

There's no sense in letting what I already know about swordfighting go to waste here. Umi, I hope that you're willing to give me some pointers. I'm not exactly that close to being a fencing champion. I remember what that duel with Juri-senpai was like.

On that note, I'd like to know if anyone can tell me where I can find a decent sword. I don't know how easy or hard they are to come by in a place like this... but I'm not going to keep letting this stupid practice sword hold me back from the times where I need to protect my friends!

Trade is the way things are settled here, right? I'll do what I can. That's a promise.

Beat... I hope that you're okay.

So... water is turning to wine, huh? Magic isn't really anything that's the norm for me, and so I'd call that a miracle.
It sounds like some of you guys are enjoying it a little too much though.

In any case, it looks like I finally have a place that I can call home. Heh. It's a big improvement on sleeping between two wooden chairs pulled from the school desks before. (I wouldn't recommend that to anyone who isn't desperate.)

That building wasn't actually in that bad shape either. ...I think... even one of the windows that was cracked the other day is fixed now. Really fixed! Not just patched up with duct tape or anything. I'd like to know who did that. That's amazing!

Ah, other than that, I should be sure to give you my thanks again, Prydain. I'd be more than happy to meet everyone staying in the rowhouse across the street too. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of each other from now on.

Hey, Raidou-kun? "We skip the formalities among housemates," huh? We should try to go over to the lake later to bring back some water for the house. I'm not looking forward to bathing in wine.

[[ooc Thanks for giving me permission to shack up there, Prydain-mun. Rowhouse inmates residents, now is your chance to meet and greet Utena before all the chaos starts.]]