[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!

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[nojohnyouare]

Someone else. ...You made a friend?

un: sapphicdistractions

[zweihandler]

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

[ some people are helpful

some people are erina ]

audio

[fistsofchange]

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

[photoshooter]

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

[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!

[photoshooter]

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

audio

[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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[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?

audio

[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?!

[photoshooter]

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

video

[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!

[founderinglight]

Some kind of time stasis effect, I don't know!

[HE DOESN'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS.]

...But I'm very glad you're back.

[photoshooter]

I am, too, I guess? I didn't even know I was gone!

[...]

Did--did anyone else come back? While I was missing?

[founderinglight]

He's not here, Prompto. I'm sorry.

[He knows who you're asking about and it is just. Not a thing he's sorry buddy.]

You get out of the rain and I'll bring you lunch down, if you want to talk.

[photoshooter]

Oh. No, that's okay. I mean, I don't have anything, uh, new to talk about. ...I'll take lunch, though!

[The last is the usual Promptonian forced cheer, but then hesitation crosses his face.]

But-- [And he looks around.] I thought there was... someone with me?

[founderinglight]

Not as far as I can see. Don't worry, Ignis and I have been keeping an eye on Sunshine. See you in the caves in ten?

[With, yknow, comfort food. Prompto looks like he could use some comfort food. And a towel.]

[photoshooter]

Yeah. [He still sounds distracted, but then he shakes his head.] Be there quick as a flash. ...Oh, man, Ignis! Poor Iggy, if I've been gone this long without saying anything--aw, crap, I gotta call him. See you soon, Zuzu!

-> Action

[founderinglight]

[Izunia can be heard making an amused sound as the video cuts out, but he's soon coming through the caves with a dim blue orb of light, about the size of a fist, following along behind him. Prompto might notice the faint addition of some kind of cinnamon cologne.]

Got your bearings a bit better, I hope?

[fistsofchange]

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

Audio

[stormkingofshepherds]

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

[nojohnyouare]

Person? Or animal?

audio

[serrata]

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