[Video]

[vivelavenir]

Brethren aboard, I come to you today with an enquiry most... well, most abnormal.

I wonder-

[A pause here, squinting, as if not entirely sure how to phrase such a thing. Perhaps it will sound like lunacy, but then, he is very used to being called eccentric anyway. So maybe simply coming out with it was for the best.]

-I wonder if anyone has before been contacted, on their devices, by someone outside of the ship?

Someone not aboard, who does not even know the name Tranquility, and perhaps is not even very familiar with the technology here, as I was once not... Someone curious about us, and this place.

[And unwilling to say why, though he should not wish to alarm anyone by making this sound more cloak-and-dagger than it ought.]

Has anyone else ever communicated with such a person? A voice in the void?

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Video;

[jondrette]

And sisteren! You must not forget the farer sex, let alone dear Eponine! Or I shall tell Gavroche and he will be cross with you.

Who has contacted you? Friends from Paris? [Marius?!

anon;

[lostsoldier]

curious as in fishing for information about us?

[Text]

[vivelavenir]

I suppose so... yes.

[Video]

[vivelavenir]

Do forgive me, dear mademoiselle. Surely, women are most welcome always.

I am not sure whom it was, but no, certainly not a Frenchman. [Nor friend, as yet.]

[Video]

[jondrette]

[Damn. Not Marius.]

But you've received a strange message from them! Were I a religious woman, I would say perhaps it is God or an Angel, but we should be amongst them now, if such a place did exist and we were granted access.

[Video]

[vivelavenir]

Do you think the angels might communicate by such mortal devices?

Truly, you have taken Combeferrer's point of view in the marriage of technology to idealism!

[jondrette]

God has spoken through a bush.

[Take that.]

I have! Curious!

[vivelavenir]

A brush is a lovely sort of a mode to speak though, that each stroke bears its own story and weight, never two letters the same.

[A short laugh.]

You even exclaim 'curious!' as he does.

[jondrette]

Letters, leaves, hush. Perhaps from this future, he communicates through our devices.

Do I! That is strange indeed. Perhaps I am the female sort of him.

[vivelavenir]

I cannot believe such a thing to be true. Perhaps another God does so, but none native to our earth.

Oh? Have you any feelings upon the matter of moths and leeches?

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[enlistments]

And you did not know this voice?

[jondrette]

Perhaps. Have others said any such thing?

I do not like blood, leeches are right-out. Michel keeps them in our refrigerator, and I am tempted to kill them. Moths are beautiful, though I prefer butterflies.

[Video]

[vivelavenir]

T'was no voice, monsieur. The messages were in text alone.

[vivelavenir]

No, not as such.

Michel keeps many things in the refrigerator, very little of it food, I have noticed. -Unless one has a very strange appetite.

[jondrette]

He is a strange man. Yet I do care for him. How strange is that! Before here I had eyes for one man, now here, he is all I see!

Jehan, he calls me beautiful!

anon ∞

[lostsoldier]

what did they ask about?

[alsohawkeye]

Did they give you their name?

Could you reproduce the conversation you had with this person for us to see?

[Video]

[talkingaintdoin]

Can't say I've had the...pleasure of such a conversation lately. Plenty of folk aboard who're curious about the differences in each other's worlds, but usually with some basis to go on.

[majestyofthethrone]

Has anyone offered to help you track it? I can, if you like.

[ryuuzaki]

This is Ryuuzaki, from Communications.

To begin with, yes, it's happened before.

My first question is, have you been contacted by this person at all since the most recent jump? If not, since the week prior to that?

Second, would you be willing to visit the department? As soon as possible, please.

[Video]

[enlistments]

I see. And what exactly was the nature of their inquiry? What did they want to know?

video;

[servator]

I've been told it's happened before, but I can't say I've got a lot of experience with it. What was the conversation like?

Could be there are actually more ships around here and the transmissions have been blocked. ... Could be a lot of things.

[Video]

[vivelavenir]

Aside from the rather contained nature of his own replies, he was merely very curious- very polite.

It does seem it ought to be possible, does it not? Other ships. We have, after all, landed before, seen evidence of other such vessels as ours.

[Video]

[vivelavenir]

A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Monsieur. I am Jean Prouvaire, but please, Jehan is fine.

[That's a rather novel name, 'Ryuuzaki', but all right, an attempt not to become side-tracked by his own curiosity:]

It is good to think that there may be some record of events like these, thank you for informing me.

I was contacted after the last- we completed the conversation and have not had further communication, I fear. I am certainly not sure how to reach out to him, for it was a he.

I would be most willing, if you feel it would be of help.

[vivelavenir]

Sera- how are you?

No, no one has. Are you so able?