2011-02-04

[ PHONE CALL - Penelo ]

[Ring Ring, Penny! Your friend the queen (well, one of them) is calling you!]

[Video (Filtered from Garland/Lufene/Kuja)]

[The video feed turns on as Ursula stands by a window, giving a limited view of both the comfortable sitting room and the snowy, industrial town outside. Ursula herself is calm and composed, as usual.]

My trip to Narshe was uneventful, and I'm settling in as we speak. There's much I need to learn, but Captain Basch and others have been of considerable aid. I'm grateful to them all. As with the rest of the world, Narshe is missing a significant part of its population since the merge. It's troubling, but the people are resilient and doing the best they can in light of what happened.

[Pause. It's a long shot, but she has to ask.]

My duties must come first, but it is also time that I seek a new mentor. Might there be a skilled monk in Gaia willing to take a student? Travel is unfortunately an issue, but I would be willing to accommodate anyone who would visit Narshe for such a purpose.

[She looks as though she's about to continue, but then thinks better of it and turns off the sky phone. After all those meetings, she needs fresh air and a chance to stretch her legs.]

[phone call to Zack]

[Ring, ring, Zack Fair, she knows you don't want to answer but you should.]

(no subject)

[The video feed clicks on, and there's a moogle's face for a moment.]

...and that's how the video function works, kupo!

[The person holding the phone, however, looks a bit... confused. He's kneeling in front of the moogle, eyes going back and forth between it and the phone.]

Uh... right. I'll remember that.

[He stands, and the phone shows the distinct background of Oerba. It's bright and sunny.]

So... this moogle says I'm on this Gaia, and that this is some form of communication device-

-You're here!

[A pink-haired girl appears in the area, seemingly out of nowhere, and wastes no time at all in racing over to Palom. She hugs him tightly for a second before starting to fuss over him, straightenning his clothes and adjusting his headband and apparently attempting to get his ponytail to behave by glaring at it.]

[and Palom freezes, arms lifting in the air as Porom fusses. The moment she starts on the hair, however, he moves quickly.]


Porom- you're here? Don't touch my hair!

-then fix it youself.

[She is holding out the dreaded hairbrush.]

And you're late, by the way.

[He scoffs the dreaded hairbrush.]

How am I late? I just got here! If anything, you're early.

[She will not stop waving this hairbrush at him until his hair is brushed.]

I've been sensing your arrival for days now. You're late.

-wait, is that thing still recording?


[He looks down at it.]

So it is.

[and he turns it off!]

[ » Phone Call To Zack « ]

[Ring ring, Zack. Your best friend is calling you, so answer the damn phone.]