#🔻 verse: this is going to be weirder than usual (main)

[remedialmuses]

Let's Finnish Tango || @sifonie

It was uncommon for the Director to visit suspected Altered World Event sites. Not unless it was serious. The moment she had received a distress call from the Rangers on the scene, she had made her way across town to find out what was happening.

When she arrived, she was immediately filled with dread. A few agents were laying on the floor, clutching at bloody ears while medics frantically attended to them.

What the Hell happened here? She asked herself - or, rather, she asked Polaris, the ammonite spiral entity that lived in her mind. In response, Polaris let out a sound between a shimmer and a hum. Resonance? Yeah, I guess that would explain the burst eardrums. I don't like the look of this...will you protect me? Polaris shimmered and Jesse let out a breath of relief. Thank you.

Ducking under the ticker tape that had been put in place by Investigations, she approached in stunned silence at the bodies on the ground, all with bleeding ears.

"Fuck..." she whispered, carefully stepping over the bodies of her fallen colleagues. She was not unused to seeing corpses in her line of work, but it never made it any less easy. Her eyes scanned around the site, looking for the culprit.

"Hello?" she called out, her voice echoing. "My name is Jesse Faden, I am the Director of the Federal Bureau of Control. Come out with your hands up!"

[remedialmuses]

“You’ve been asking a question… and it’s time someone told you you’ve been getting it wrong.“ -from Trench @roisdevivre to Darling or Jesse

Clara Oswald Quotes || accepting || @roisdevivre

"How have I been getting it wrong?" Jesse's voice spoke into the Hotline receiver. She knew it was unlikely she'd get an answer from Director Trench's echoes, but she had to try. This was the first time he'd said anything in direct response to something happening in the present.

She needed to tell Emily about this. She'd probably want to run tests or start hypothesising how he was able to speak to her like this, but Jesse didn't mind. Her Head of Research was thorough and that was just how she liked her.

"Can you even hear me?" Her voice trailed off, becoming a catch in her throat. "Or is this just another...recorded message for me to listen to when I need advice?"

I'm hoping it's real, aren't you? Polaris shimmered and hummed in agreement.