[Location: The Boundary to the Northern Zone] [Visual]

[personaldemon]

The tablet broadcast pings to everyone, showing... nothing.

Or rather, showing a blank, flat grayness, like mist, except with nothing on the other side to see.

"This is Jason Blood," says Blood's voice, flat and neutral as it usually is. "Has anyone yet attempted passage through this... fog?"

He moves the tablet as he speaks, and comes into the camera's feed himself. He's standing at the edge of it, on the bridge that crosses the river between this district and the rest of the city, a few feet from the mist. He's dressed for the winter cold, and his breath steams slightly as he surveys the wall of blankness before him.

12 Tea anyone? [Location: Madelyne's House] [Visual]

[genequeen]

"Hello all," Madelyne says from her kitchen.

"Things have been a little strange around here, not that they're every anything else, but I thought I would send out an invitation to everyone here to tea. I have something of a stash built up and I want to get to know my neighbors."

There is a tea pot behind her on the kitchen table along with what looks like tiny little tea sandwiches and perhaps cookies.

"It seems this place is smaller now, so I thought, perhaps, we could start to treat each other a little more like neighbors." It could also be that Maddy sort of liked the person she was as a high school girl and is trying to be more like her and less like the person she was. It feels like she's figured out who she wants to be /now/, instead of defined by her past.

"I'd like to toast new beginnings and try to appreciate the chances."