Canto Unus - Video

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

[Cue the curious peering into the camera. It's a young lady, late teens, with incredibly bushy brown hair and a worried expression on her face.]
Ah, excuse me, that odd woman back inside this building said that this would allow me to speak to a network of people, but it's a bit nerve wracking to speak to a lot of total strangers.

[Behind her, a second young lady, not-quite-so-late teens, with long blonde hair, is only partly looking at the camera, her attention flitting elsewhere every few seconds.]
Hermione, do you think they use pigeons instead of owls here? There are a lot of them...

I don't know! Honestly, Luna. Sorry. Can anybody tell me...where we are? Or...
[Oh dear these are Muggles. She shouldn't mention this. But...]
Or if You-Know-Who is behind this?

Hermione, he...
[She trails off and starts fiddling with her own comm in an absent sort of way.]
Do you think they will know who?

[Sigh.]
...Probably not. Can anybody please explain what's going on? I've never had this happen to me before. Or, failing that, directions to the nearest library?

Comments

[Video from right behind her. Also, camera is upside down.]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Hermione! I can see you on this!

[Oh lawd.]

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

Luna, please! This is serious.

[video] editedit

[foreverbouncing]

[Here, have a redhead waving at her screen. And here comes the rambling.]

Hi! This place is called The City. Which is the most boring name ever right? But it's kinda a lot like New York, if your world has a New York, anyway.

You got sucked here by this machine called the porter, it swipes people all the time from all over the multiverse and drops them here. And they get superpowers! Unless they already had them, then they just get...like...to keep their powers? I don't know. It's kinda complicated.

You guys know each other? And showed up together? I totally didn't know that could happen! Usually it's just the one totally confused person. Not two!

Maybe you were on special or something.

What's a you-know-who? Uh. I mean, who's a who-know-you?

[video] oh hai thar

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

Actually, I arrived about thirty seconds before she did, if we're being totally accurate.

Erm. New York? America? Really? That's certainly odd.


[Thinky Hermione is deep in thinky thoughts.]

[Video. She now has the camera up the right way.]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

If you don't know who You-Know-Who is, then you don't know who You-Know-Who is. If you did know who You-Know-Who was, you wouldn't be asking who he was.

[She looks like she thinks this is a perfectly reasonable response.]

Video, obviously english accent as well.

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

I dunno who you're talking about, but... The 'porter must have grabbed you like it did everyone else.

Video, 'allo 'allo

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

So how does the 'Porter work, exactly? Is it a person or a machine?

[Video] boy, Lyra and Hermione look really similar...

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

How many more people has it grabbed? Why does it do it?

[Voice]

[ofthedream.livejournal.com]

Greetings, young one. This is the City, on the east coast of a continent known as North America, on the world called Earth. Just as everyone else with these devices, you have been brought here by the construct, Lachesis, without your consent.

I am Ysera.

...Whom is it you think I should know?

[Voice]

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

Hello, Ysera. I'm Hermione. I'm also very confused. Are you from another world as well?

voice; she could fourth wall but she won't

[darkprophecies.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see other people have started to explain things to you. I will simply welcome you to the city then.

voice; oh you

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

I think? I'm really not supposed to be here right now, I'll be honest. I've got friends back home who really do need me quite badly.

[Video]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

What's that on your forehead? It's very pretty. Is it some kind of amulet?

[audio]

[natureinblood]

This certainly makes things a bit more interesting.

[audio]

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

[GASP.]

It can't be...!

[Video]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

[That's a familiar voice, but... she thought he was dead? Better not to say so, maybe.]

...

Professor?

[Voice]

[strongest-tool.livejournal.com]

...you guys know Mr. Remus?

[Voice]

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was one of our professors back home. A few years ago, at least. He hadn't done any teaching for a while, sadly.

[Video]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

[It takes her a moment to place the name; she always knew him as Professor Lupin. But Hermione's comment reminds her.]

Yes, we do, he was one of our best teachers.

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[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[Did somebody say "library"? On clicks a passive looking young Chinese woman]

Ah--did you say your names were Hermione and Luna? [pause, very, very, very slight chuckle] Cool.

If you want to know where the local libraries are.... here. [Aaaaand incoming is a text list of every public/free library and used bookstore in the City]

[Video]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

[Oh yes, the L word. And you'll have Luna's attention as well as Hermione's with that list.]

Thank you so much! [She scans the list.] There are so many!

And yes, I'm Luna and that's Hermione. What's your name?

[Video]

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

[LIBRARY LIST GET! Gleeful happy.]

Oh, thank you very much! And yes, I'm Hermione.

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

I don't think a library would help too much, unfortunately.

And I don't think anyone from where you're from would be behind you coming here, so you shouldn't have to worry about that, at least!

[Video]

[tokenravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Oh, Hermione can always find something useful in a library.

If there's already someone else here from our world, would it be possible that someone who's... not exactly a hero could come here as well?

[voice] after reading all of the above stuff....

[littlebratziska.livejournal.com]

Hmph. I suppose that now you will both also be living with us.

[voice]

[messagebook.livejournal.com]

[Taken slightly aback.]

Not necessarily. I don't want to put anybody out.