@lazarus | video

[benhargreeves]

[ The video opens on Ben's face. He is looking particularly grim, filming in one of the rooms in the residential section. No greetings or build-up, he just cuts right to the chase, holding up a tiny device between forefinger and thumb. Visible is a tiny lens, and what looks like a small antennae to transmit. ]

PSA. There are surveillance cameras hidden in the lighting fixtures of the bedrooms. I found a creepy tunnel leading to a creepy lair where some fucking creep has been spying on us. Still trying to figure out who is behind it and what they want, but the feeds only show occupied rooms and no empty ones so it's not a coincidence, unfortunately.

[ Ben turns the frame to face the spot where the small camera had obviously been ripped out of an overhead light. From offscreen he says, voice clipped and angry: ]

Anyway. Wanted you guys to know. Hit me up if you need help ripping the suckers out. I'll post again when I know more.

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[abheirrant]

[If nothing else, Carlisle appreciates his attempt, no matter how private he will keep said appreciation.]

I assume you would not say the same for the stranger who has been watching us.

[benhargreeves]

[ Again, Ben is not really sure if this is a matching attempt at humor or trying to burst his fragile hope balloon. Texting is hard. ]

Yeah there's a lesser-known saying about friendship which is: Spying on someone without their knowledge and/or against their will automatically fucking disqualifies you from friendship for forever no take-backs.

Harder to fit that on a t-shirt.

[abheirrant]

[It doesn't help that Carlisle is new to texting and doesn't yet know how to get any ounce of humor, however dry, across.]

One would think that would be common sense, but I suppose sense hasn't much of a place in this world.

[benhargreeves]

I don't think this world has anything to do with it.

Turns out there are shitty people who do awful things in every world.

The great unifier.

[abheirrant]

I suppose that much is true. Unnerving as it may be, there seem to be a number of constants among the worlds represented here.