Sixteen Bells: [WRITTEN/VOICE/ACTION]

[simplestgift]

[Filtered against known villains and Grell, 100% unhackable]

[The handwriting is disguised, and the picture obscured. The message is as anonymous as possible.]

If there is anyone returned from a kidnapping or being threatened who does not feel safe in his or her home, speak to anyone at the Welcome Center and they will direct you to a safe place to stay until things are better.

If you wish to volunteer to house someone, you will need a reference from a trusted member of the community.

[/Filter]

[A few minutes later, he uncovers the camera and starts a new message, spoken this time.]

Alexis Rodgers has been sent home. At least I assume as much--no one has seen her and her flat is empty. It's good.  She was very homesick, and...

[A pause. There's nothing really to say after that. He doesn't sound greatly distressed, but there's definitely a certain melancholy.

He'll be at the library this afternoon, and Good Spirits tonight. Missing Dawn, mostly. He'll occasionally walk through the item shop, killing time looking for little gifts to pick up for her.  At some point, he'll go see Ingrid in the clinic.  In the evening, he'll pay a visit to Jack Sparrow's house on the beach.  He's there to see Horatio, of course.]

Comments

[simplestgift]

You mean you have to be his? Well, that sounds right. I wasn't a midshipman until I was fourteen.

[flicker-flash.livejournal.com]

[Sometimes you're no fun, Archie. :|]

What's a midshipman?

[On the other hand, she has endless questions.]

[simplestgift]

An officer candidate. An apprentice, in a way. Enlisted men treat him like an officer, commissioned men treat him like dirt.

[flicker-flash.livejournal.com]

[Taking a minute to sort through that.]

Oh. So you're like commoner knights?

[The common folk think they're fabulous and the nobility treat them like dirt.]

[simplestgift]

Midshipmen? No. The enlisted men must treat midshipmen like an officer, or they hang. They don't do it out of respect.

[flicker-flash.livejournal.com]

Oh. So you're more like noble knights. [She looks doubtful at this.]

[simplestgift]

More like apprentices, really. They have to get used to authority, so the men treat them like officers. And I'm not a midshipman any longer, in any case.

[flicker-flash.livejournal.com]

Oh! [She gets apprentices, at any rate, so the doubt clears. And nearly asks if he's an officer now, but remembers then that he's...not anything any more.]

...well. You're here to see your friend, aren't you?

[simplestgift]

Yes. [Stopping in front of the Cullen House.] He is waiting for me.

[flicker-flash.livejournal.com]

Tell him to make sure he doesn't leave any crumbs behind. [That's her job, after all. Then she gives a small bow and vanishes around the side of the house.]