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[freecssofnature]

[Oh look, it's the loud boy from yesterday... only this time he's wearing a (slightly) embarrassed grin and waving at the video pickup.]

Hello! I'm Gon Freecss! It's nice to meet you!

[--and bowing, deeply, for a second before he bounces back to vertical.] I'm really sorry I yelled at everybody yesterday! [And really glad everybody but Killua just heard him over the phone, so he didn't hurt anyone, because that would have been really bad...]

I understand about this place now, so don't worry. But I wanted to ask if anybody could tell me more. About the animals here, or the Animus, or anything!

Thank you very much.

[BOW.

Oh boy he hopes that makes up for it. He doesn't even know who that girl was who sounded really scared.... quickly, he grins at the video pickup, and cuts the feed.]

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[video]

[taijiya]

[After a long minute or two of fiddling, she manages to link one of her own entries from a few months ago.]

That's not such a great view, but.

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

[That bit of armor looked like the same color as she's wearing...]

Wow!

You were fighting it? How tough are they?

[video]

[taijiya]

It really depends on your skill level. I'm actually a demon slayer by profession, so...

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

A demon slayer? That's cool! I'm a pro Hunter.

[video]

[taijiya]

[WELP, that sounds familiar...]

Are you also a friend of Kurapica or Killua's?

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're good friends! Do you know them?

[video]

[taijiya]

Both.

[One of them she gets along with and has ~angst bonding~ time with... the other, she um. Well. They clash, to say the least.]

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Killua's got a lot of friends here!

[It's a LOT better than being stuck with his family! Gon's glad he doesn't have to worry too much about those two and a half years.]

[video]

[taijiya]

I wouldn't call us friends.

[More like she used to threaten to save his ass if he provoked a certain codmode archenemy of hers. 8| It's. Weird, okay.]

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

[Well, they didn't sound like enemies.

Considering.]

Oh, sorry. What would you say?

[video]

[taijiya]

[It's sort of... bizarre?]

I don't exactly know. Probably that we don't really get along.

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[Well... Killua does annoy people sometimes....]

[video]

[taijiya]

Are you staying with him and Kurapica?

["Antagonize" might be a better word, bb.]

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am!

[Maybe a little.]

[video]

[taijiya]

[You know, I hear there's this gorgeous river in Egypt called Denial...]

I see. Good luck, then.

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

[Laughing. Wow, Killua must really have annoyed her a lot...

"Antagonized," okay, whatever.] Thanks! I want to go home, but this place is kind of cool, isn't it?

[video]

[taijiya]

Not for long. Have you been around for any of the events yet?

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

No... I only got here yesterday.

[video]

[taijiya]

[Have a humorless smile.]

Then you'll see soon enough. Every other week, usually, the Animus inflict on us an event. The last one was a lot of traps set up around the city, and the one before that involved being forced to see the graves and deaths of people you care for.

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

That's awful. Why would they do that?

[video]

[taijiya]

Apparently, they're trapped here as well, and misery loves company. They are cruel for reasons unknown.

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

[He falls silent, thinking about that, expression growing more thunderous by the moment.]

[video]

[taijiya]

Are you alright?

[video]

[freecssofnature.livejournal.com]

[Pause -- then he notices her talking and smiles.]

Yeah, I'm fine!

[Somebody ought to stop them.]

[video]

[taijiya]

[Honey, everyone in Ads has been down that thought process.]

You looked... upset... for a moment.