Text: This is a public service announcement

[lighter_flick]

[After he wakes up from that weird dream, it takes him a few more hours to realize that Eikichi is, somehow, missing. And...that was it! That was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back! Because by mid-morning, there is an angry-looking text post from Tatsuya on the network, with only these words of warning.]

ATTN: HINOTO-RI

PHILEMON WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE

[That's....it. Maybe he should elaborate.]

Comments

[Text][Anon]

[firstofthefallen]

How unfortunate that you confuse a symptom for the cause.

[Text][Anon]

[handshakegreeting]

Indeed. But then, it would not be the first time any part of humanity had forgotten that it is they themselves that caused for consequence to fall down upon their own heads.

[Text][Anon]

[firstofthefallen]

So often it is they who bring it about. In the end, the only ones who can.

And the only ones who can persevere in the trials often set before them.

[Text][Anon]

[handshakegreeting]

Yet some choose to, while others choose to be swayed by hollow rumor time and time again. They desire for a falsehood to become reality is so often their own undoing...

[This anon could tell so many stories...]

[Text]

[lighter_flick]

HOW UNFORTUNATE THAT YOU'RE A JACKASS

[...Not his greatest comeback, but it'll do.]

[Text][Anon]

[firstofthefallen]

I wonder.

Do you think Nyarlathotep and Philemon alone are the reason you don't have a peaceful life?

[Text]

[lighter_flick]

NO BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN'T BE SICK OF THEIR BULLSHIT, CAN I?

[Text][Anon]

[firstofthefallen]

I suppose not. Although what good you think it does is beyond me, instead of preparing for what comes next, Tatsuya Suou.

You, of many of those here, know what comes next best.

[text]==>[video][private]

[lighter_flick]

[...Oh.

Okay great, thanks guy who apparently knows what he did, because now he's taking this conversation to video and locking it. Whoever this was wasn't doing very well at not making himself suspicious.]

...Who is this?

[video][private]

[firstofthefallen]

[Video? Well alright then. She can do that.

"Louisa" will switch to video as well, resting her chin on the palm of her hand, a small smile playing at the corner of her lips. Perhaps "smirk" would be a better word.]

You know me, although I suppose in a roundabout way.

You could say that at times we have spoken to each other, but it's never been more than "Thou art I, and I art thou."