Action | Genessia

[A year can mean a lot of big changes for a guy. For some, it's moving to another city. For others, just a new job can bring a whole slew of new experiences. For Nathan Drummond, it was finding out you were descended from a long line of pretty special people, then getting shipped off from your home in New York City to live in the Ozark mountains of northern Arkansas to learn how to not lose control of the powers you began instinctively pulling in, all after finding out there was a while secret war going on between opposing forces you didn't even know existed, really.

It had been a long year. Then there was going to bed only to wake up...in a metal test tube in a secret cave under a city, and that was apparently normal. After listening to the hologram, pocketing the cash, and stringing the necklace around his neck, all he could assume was that he was kidnapped by aliens. He was making his way down to the welcome center office indicated on the map and wondering exactly what to do, and why aliens would want to watch humans live in a city.

Oh...well, that was an unpleasant thought. Maybe it was a zoo. A weird, trans-dimensional zoo.

Shit.]

Video

[The video clicks on a little while later, and Nathan runs a hand back through his hair while he waits for the feed to say it's ready for transmission. Then, he clears his throat.]

Hello...Genessia? Did I say that right? Does it even really matter? [He shakes his head slightly. He's pretty sure it doesn't.] I'm getting some really weird "Zoo" vibes from this place, but I guess this is me, saying hello. My name is Nathan, I just got off the boat...or the...steel coffin of doom, whatever you want to call it. I know it's late, but I don't see myself wanting to sleep anytime soon, anyway, so...anybody know where the nearest Starbucks is? Barring that, the nearest coffee shop would work.

Action;

[Airy doesn’t want to admit that weird has suddenly become normal. Things were uncomfortable enough already without having to face that one glaring fact. In this case, she remembers going to bed and it was nice and comfortable and yes, in a stranger’s apartment but it was at least a bed and he wasn’t creepy. Now she’s falling out of this pod thing and stumbling into water. The strange box she woke up with falls into the water and breaks open.]

Oh no…

[She dips her hand in to fetch out the phone first and then collects everything else only to lay it out on the floor away from the water. She shakes the phone praying to the phone gods.]

Please don’t be broken.

[She collects the rest of the things and walks from the bay area, only sort of paying attention to the hologram. It’s pretty cool actually but she doesn’t really want to linger on that.]

Video;

[The water hasn’t broken her phone but it is stuck in video mode which Airy feels awkward about because that’s her face and people she doesn’t know can see it.]

Hi. I’m Airy… well sort of Airy that isn’t my full name. [She pauses, closes her eyes and then starts over.] Anyway I dropped... everything in the water and it’s sort of wet. [Which is obvious.] I sort of read it but I sort of didn’t.

Is this like the Twilight Zone?

[Which she’s watched recently because it’s on Netflix.]

[When Athrun appears on the video feed, he looks visibly upset. A thing happened that has left him depressed. What is it? Well...]

For those who knew him...Kira Yamato has disappeared. He's completely gone from our apartment. So he was sent home.

It's...weird. I'm unhappy that he's gone, but...I feel like I should also be relieved. I mean, he's back home. But now...that just leaves me as the only person from my world here. It leaves me feeling lonely.

To those who have been in a similar spot: How did you cope? I could use the advice.

[He then ends the feed, but before it ends the following can be distantly heard:]

Of all the months, why this one...?