[VIDEO] 📷 UN: quicksilver80

[photoshooter]

--Guys! What the--aw, crap!

[And just like that, the afternoon skies open up. Prompto Argentum, missing for the better part of [x] time, yelps and throws his free arm up over his head as he runs up the beach. Poor guy's getting soaked; he's dressed for his morning run, not a late summer afternoon downpour.]

How did--did we get unstable again? I was running and all of a sudden the light changed, and I felt like--like someone was watching me, but no one's here, and--it wasn't supposed to rain this morning, what the hell!

[The last he yells up at the sky. Then, apparently realizing there's no way he's going to make it all the way back to the station un-sodden, he turns and, lowering his phone from his face, shouts into the rain:]

Hey! Are you there? Come on, this way, y--you're gonna be okay!

Comments

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[nojohnyouare]

Someone else. ...You made a friend?

[photoshooter]

I'm not... sure. I-I think I scared them. But I swear, they were just here!

[nojohnyouare]

Person? Or animal?

[photoshooter]

I'm not sure. It was like--you know how sometimes you can feel someone watching you, even if your eyes are closed? It was like that, right before I opened my eyes. Like, the middle of a blink.

[nojohnyouare]

...Strange. Another Fissure phenomenon, maybe.

un: sapphicdistractions

[zweihandler]

Dude it's been raining forever, did you only just notice?

[ some people are helpful

some people are erina ]

[video because he's not typing in the rain!]

[photoshooter]

What're you talking about?! I wouldn't go out running without a coat in rain this bad!

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[zweihandler]

i mean obviously you did or

actually hold on

[ and then, like a smart person, Erina switches over to video. ]

Okay, like I was saying, obviously you did because you're out in the rain now, dude. Where are you?

[photoshooter]

On the beach, where I normally go? I mean, I'm not so far from the station that... things should be happening!

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[fistsofchange]

Prompto! You're back! I was starting to get worried.

[photoshooter]

Back? I mean, I'm still outside...

[fistsofchange]

Yeah but...no one's seen you for like a month.

[photoshooter]

Uh... haha. Is "month" the new word for, like, "hour?"

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[serrata]

[ Oh– oh. And there was Yuuri, like a fool, wondering if he'd gone back home like some of the others. It'd been long enough since she'd seen him around the station that it doesn't seem too foolish an assumption, but this is what she gets for assuming, it looks like. ]

I'm sorry, but – how long did you say you'd been running for?

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[photoshooter]

I dunno, I don't have...

[Aaaannnddd his voice trails off as he looks at his phone.]

...Why does my phone say it's September?!

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[serrata]

Well, it... it is September. I think you've been gone for about a month.

[photoshooter]

[Well, at least he turns away from his phone to shout this.]

How is that a thing?!

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[founderinglight]

[The camera starts up on a slightly frazzled-looking Izunia - hair a little longer, not held back this morning - wearing an expression of relief. Verity's ears are visible in the bottom of the frame.]

Thank goodness you're back. You vanished nearly a month ago...

[photoshooter]

WHAT?

[founderinglight]

[Verity pins her ears back at the noise. Why so loud.]

It's been most of a month! I was worried because it was far longer than that time Astolfo was gone, but the androids kept saying your signature was still attached to this world, or something of the sort...

[photoshooter]

[VERITY HE'S HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL ATTACK]

How does that make any sense, I just left for a run this morning!

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[stormkingofshepherds]

Prompto? [Nathaniel sounds surprised.] Where are you right now?

[photoshooter]

Nathaniel!

[Now there's a sight for sore eyes.]

Glitterstone beach! Dude, where have you been?

[stormkingofshepherds]

It seems I returned home for a while, along with my Pokemon. The return was...somewhat turbulent, but I'm glad to be back, and to see you again. Do...do you need help getting back? Rinn could probably bring you an umbrella if you need one, too.

[photoshooter]

I mean, I'm already wet. ...But I wouldn't mind the company.

It's good to see you, man.