7 [@necromantica/anonymous: audio/text]

[burntbridges]

[This message is preceded by an accidental audio clip from the username "necromantica". It's only a few seconds long, and contains only a single phrase.]

--Oh, bloody hell--

[The clip stays up on the network for an hour or two, before she remembers how to take down mistakes like that.

Several hours later there is an anonymous message, in text:]

I'm curious about everyone's thoughts on death, in this city. It's been so long since I've had new thoughts to hear on the matter.

Are you afraid of death? Would you be less afraid if you were in your home world?

If you had the chance to die briefly and return, just to see what it was like, would you take it?

Do you feel abandoned by those who have died before you? If someone abandoned you, could you forgive them?

Do you believe that corpses are people, or simply objects no longer in use? Should the dead have a say in how their body is used?

Could you love a ghost? Could you even stomach being their friend?

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@necromantica//video//private

[burntbridges]

[Well... there's no hiding it from Nico; it takes her a few minutes but she sends him a private message from her own account.]

I am... oh, Nico, it's so good to see you again.

[She's aged by roughly a year by the look of it, and has a scar now over her right brow. And, now replying a few days after Ivar caught up with her, she has a very obvious bruise over her neck in the exact shape of a hand that she's trying very hard not to seem like she notices.]

How have you been, what have you been up to?

private;

[deathkid]

[ the hand print is a bit disconcerting, along with how nonchalant she's acting despite it. nico frowns a bit, still unsure how to feel about her being back and thus it takes a moment to respond. ]

You've been hurt. Is- Was it Ivar?

[ because he's spoken with ivar before about how angry the viking is to be left like he was. vaguely, nico wonders what will become of winter. ]