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[mactirebeag]

[The video starts with a very close-up view of Mebh's face as she tries to figure out if her Omni is even working or not. She hasn't made much of an effort to use the Omni up until now, since she's not familiar with this kind of technology at all. Eventually she pulls away; though the camera is still at a noticeable angle, the backdrop looks as though she's somewhere around the Waystation, since the windmill can be seen. She's flanked on either side by two grey, yellow-eyed wolves, one of whom leans forward to sniff at the camera for a moment before Mebh rolls her eyes and nudges it away.]

Robyn said I could use this thing to talk to people. [Her expression briefly changes to a sadder one. Mentioning Robyn hurts. Robyn had said they would look for their parents together while they were here, but now she's gone and Mebh can't find her. Though she can't dwell on that right now, because she has a Complaint.]

So isn't there a real forest around here? Not like the Trenchwood place. There's nothin' good in there and it smells all nasty.

[And there's something about it that seems even worse at night; she can't bring herself to go in when it's dark out, because even she can tell it's not safe, though she's not going to admit that easily.]

But I'm not livin' in the town. Not ever. Dunno how anybody can stand all those smells.

[There's a very stubborn look in her eyes when she says this. Even if this world is more dangerous than the one she remembers and there are far worse things living here than people who hunt wolves, she hates the idea of caging herself in. And she can't live in a town when it reminds her that the only friend she had from home has now disappeared.

For a moment, Mebh goes quiet...and then she suddenly bares her teeth and lets out a guttural growl, the screen shaking violently as she takes the Omni and throws it on the ground in anger and frustration. The screen shows the sky for a few moments before it shuts off.]

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[mactirebeag]

If nothin' can live in those woods, how can the townies keep livin'? Where do they get their food?

[Mebh doesn't much like how people in towns keep cutting down forests without much consideration for how much is left, but at least she can understand that they live off the land as much as she and her mother do. At least, in her time period.]

Nobody can catch me. [She says that, but with the emotional roller coaster she's going through right now, she only sounds half convinced of that herself.]

[droptheious]

Farms, mostly. Not very good ones, but still. They also seem to fish a lot.

[Varian's further along in the general timeline of things than Mebh is, but he's also from far beyond a time where big industrial farming would take place. What happens in Trench is far more familiar to what he's used to back home. Small farms, eeking out whatever they could form the land. ]

Maybe- but there's always a chance. It's got to be safer with someone else, right?

[mactirebeag]

S' fine. I've got me wolves.

[Granted, only two of them are with her. And thankfully she's not too far from the Waystation, so it's not like she's completely stranded.]

They're all I have left now.

[droptheious]

Well, they do look pretty tough wolves, but those monsters can be really big.

[Oh. Oh, this isn't good at all, she can't just have wolves.]

...Did Robyn go home?

[mactirebeag]

I don't know where Robyn is. I can't find her.

[Though from the way others have reacted to Mebh saying she can't find Robyn, it seems that home might very well be where Robyn has gone...which would be a comfort, if Mebh wasn't stuck here by herself in a place that's very much not like home.

...hold on.]

...how do you know Robyn?

[droptheious]

Oh. That's- I didn't see her come across the other side of the water.

[Which was the case of a lot of people, but it's clear he hasn't just missed her. She might not have shown up at all. ]

I met her a couple of times, bad in the dream? Did...uh did anyone explain the dream to you?

[mactirebeag]

Yeah. The dream place.

[Mebh still doesn't know all the details about where a lot of people seem to have been before this, but she has a basic idea.]

Robyn was already here when I got here. She said she'd help me. But now I can't find her.

[droptheious]

That's it, the dream place. I'm...glad she made it across at least.

[Because that was his first worry.]

Do you want me to help you look for her? Two sets of eyes have got to be better than one.

[mactirebeag]

I followed her scent to the beach, but it stopped there.

[And considering what other people have told her...]

I think...that's where she went.

[droptheious]

Oh.

[Well. That's that, then.]

I'm sorry. That...yeah. That probably means that she's gone home.

[mactirebeag]

[Mebh makes a frustrated noise in the back of her throat.]

So that's it, then. She gets to go back and I don't.

[Yes, that's kind of a childish way to look at it, and no, it's not fair. But Mebh still can't help but feel a bit cheated, especially since they were both headed out to find a better place to live before they came here.]

[droptheious]

[It's never fair, being torn away from people like this. Varian's gone through it more times than he cares count anymore. Gently:]

Look. I know it's terrible right now, but...she'll come back one day. That's- that's how this place works, right? It's just a case of...waiting for her to find her way back here. It's not forever.