video; @spot

[aeterminus]

[The video crackles on and there's a somewhat familiar face that appears, though it appears somewhat bored. The username suggests that this is not Jacob Kane and instead someone that looks identical to him. Well, if he stopped attempting to look like a lazy college student, that is. When he speaks, it with a flat monotone that's devoid of any emotion.]

If there is anyone here who knows of the man named Jacob Kane, I would like to know his whereabouts as I've found something of his that I would like to return.

[He looks down briefly and something starts making almost angry hissing sounds, but it's muffled by something.]

Stop that. I know you can behave better than this. [He looks back up at the camera.] Dear brother, if you're receiving this, I found your shadow.

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[scholiast]

(Yeah, she's just placed it. Lucretia chins her palm, squinting at the screen doubtfully.)

Okay. It, uh– sounds like it begs to differ.

[aeterminus]

That is because it is not pleased that I am stepping on it.

[scholiast]

(There's a lot to unpack here.)

I–

(Lucretia pinches the bridge of her nose, exasperated.) Explain.

[aeterminus]

[Hope you're ready for some tl;dr Lucretia because when you are not specific, he will go into robot mode.]

This creature is known as a Reaper. In our world, Reapers are connected to a living being as their shadow until the moment they die and the Reaper takes their soul on to the afterlife. As I am dead, I do not possess a Reaper nor do I have a shadow.

My brother's Reaper, due to the fact it is alone in this place or that there hasn't been an Enforcer before my arrival, left my brother's shadow and started to greet me enthusiastically. So I threw it on the ground and am now stepping on it because that is not how it is meant to behave and I believe it still wishes to excitedly greet me and is upset that I am not allowing it to.

[scholiast]

(That's absolutely fine with her. Since she's used to Cain being a little lacking in the details department, his openness about the whole thing kinda surprises her.)

Okay. You... kind of make it sound like a pet, when you put it like that.

[aeterminus]

For me, that seems to be the case. They are actually the superiors for the organization I am a part of.

[scholiast]

What organisation is that? If you don't mind my asking, that is.