voice | nebula 28

[sirentologist]

[Apparently, Tannis' curiosity has overcome her revulsion for both other people and small talk. There might as well be a celebration because this is not going to happen again. Probably. But she's got all these people here, she might as well make use of the large sample size.]

I have a few questions and unfortunately they require answers from the larger population, thus I am subjecting myself to the mad throng of people I am constantly surrounded by.

If, say, someone you care for has gone missing, and, given a high probability that they are still alive and unable to communicate, how would you in your particular circumstances, whether in your world or otherwise, go about attempting to locate them?

Those who wish only for conversation need not reply.

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[longforgottenpromise]

Erm... Hello. Um... [He's very quiet, sat in his cabin at the table and using the ICP there, a small jerboa cupped in his hands onscreen.]

I was in that exact situation... Before I came here I mean. Though if it is advice you are wanting I'm not sure how useful I'll be but I can answer any questions and try and help... If you want...

[sirentologist]

I do not need "advice," I am simply hoping to utilize the large number of people forced together here to find more potential actions that could possibly be taken to locate a...friend who vanished.

[longforgottenpromise]

Oh. My apologies. [He bowed his head.]

What had you tried so far, to find him?

[No use in telling her things she had already done.]

[sirentologist]

I have attempted to contact her directly with no response. We have also searched the areas she was last seen. I am attempting to piece together some sort of explanation, but our efforts thus far have not yielded much in the way of clues.

[longforgottenpromise]

Ah. Yes when we were looking for someone we tried to retrace their steps, where we knew they were last just like you. We also tried questioning those who might have seen him and tried to piece together his final moments...

[He pets Gyōkō quietly.] But we were helped slightly because the person we were looking for was well known, so people had reason to have noticed him.

[Not that it had gotten them very far... At first at least.]

[sirentologist]

As was...is Lilith. However, she appears to have vanished without a trace. If one excludes the brand on the moon.

[longforgottenpromise]

The brand on the moon?

[A literal brand? A literal moon?

He was keeping an open mind. Different worlds and all.]

[sirentologist]

I did not stutter.

[longforgottenpromise]

I sorry... I mean... I don't understand what you meant...

I'm sorry for her D:

[sirentologist]

She sealed Elpis and it ended up branded with her emblem, what is so difficult to understand?

don't be <3

[longforgottenpromise]

I apologise, we come from very different worlds. [It didn't matter if he understood or not, when it came to it.

He's trying to stay confident.]

Was sealing Elpis connected to her disappearance? Or did she vanish long after?

[sirentologist]

Well if I knew that, I would already have found her.

She vanished immediately after, so I suspect the two are related, however it is currently impossible to say.

[longforgottenpromise]

Not necessarily. Knowing what made someone disappear does not always mean being able to find them.

[He seems to have found his confidence. Or rather, his nerves are no longer showing, his face looks a lot more serious as he speaks through the screen.]

I suppose you have questioned anyone who was with her when she sealed Elpis?

[sirentologist]

She was alone. She left us on Pandora to watch her blaze of glorious selflessness, I suppose.

[longforgottenpromise]

Did you go to the place where she disappeared afterwards? What clues have you found so far?