02 ☣ [VOICE] [OPEN]

[g_jr]

[When Sherry speaks it’s clear she’s nervous, her voice is just a little too tense for casual conversation.]

Okay so I know people have been mu- changing, but has anyone had any changes around the eyes in particular? Like glowing spots?

I’m just trying to make sure this is the same thing everyone else is going through and not- uh, something else.

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[Video]

[albionchanged]

G-Growing...eyeballs?

[Turning on the lights again, he gives her a confused look that is almost mildly concerned.]

I am.

[Voice]

[g_jr]

Oh... [Oops.] You heard that huh?

[Video]

[albionchanged]

[Nodding, he waits for her to go on. Or not to. Hopefully to talk about it though.]

[Video]

[g_jr]

[Sherry's mouth opens and closes a few times as she fails to figure out how to even start explaining.]

This really isn't a conversation to be having over the network, wanna come over and talk in person?

[Video]

[albionchanged]

Fair.

Where do you live?

[Video/Text]

[g_jr]

I'm still on the second level, here I'll send you the address

[A second later Esme's comm beeps with a text containing the address]

[Video]

[albionchanged]

Okay, I'll be there soon. It looks like we're not far from each other.

[Video/Action]

[g_jr]

Okay, see you then.

[Sherry glances around her apartment and starts straightening up a little before Esme arrives, there's not much to clean up, but there's no reason not to clean what little there is. ]

[Action]

[albionchanged]

[ After hanging up, Esme heads out. It only takes him about fifteen minutes to jog to her address and he knocks, barely out of breath. ]

[g_jr]

[Opens the door and steps to the side so he can enter.]

Hey Esme, you find me okay?

[albionchanged]

[He nods. It's hard to explain, but right now he's happy to see Sherry. Walking inside, he looks around her apartment before turning to give her his full attention.]

It wasn't hard at all.

[g_jr]

Great!

[ Sherry had been worried about this conversation but now that Esme was here she was happy to see him too.]

You hungry? I haven't had dinner yet so I could make something for two?

[albionchanged]

I could eat, and I can help you cook.

[Just because she invited him over doesn't mean he can't try to help out.]

It would go faster.

[g_jr]

"Well, it's not anything special so it won't take long," Sherry said as she pulled a frozen ready meal out of the freezer. "But my plates are in the upper cupboard to the left of the sink if you want to grab them for me."

[albionchanged]

Okay.

[Esme doesn't have much experience with frozen meals but he's willing to trust Sherry's judgment on food. He finds the plates easily and sets two on the table.]

Do you want to talk while we wait, or after we eat?

[g_jr]

[ Sherry chuckled. ]

After, it's not like the microwave is going to take long.

[ Two means in one hand she reached for the Microwave with the other... only for electricity to fly from her fingers and the Microwave to short out in a flash of sparks and blech of smoke. Sherry backed away coughing]

[albionchanged]

Sherry!

[Moving to he side quickly, Esme gently pulled her further from the smoking box. He looked from it to her, trying to figure out just what she had done.]

Are you okay?

[g_jr]

I'm okay.

[ Sherry coughed more as she let herself be pulled away for now. ]

Open the windows will you?

[ Sherry pulled free to get a fire blanket to put over the microwave before the fire could spread. ]

[albionchanged]

R-Right.

[Esme quickly obeyed, opening all of the nearby windows before returning to see if he could help.]

[g_jr]

[Sherry held the fire blanket wide as she approached the microwave throwing it over the smoking machine and backing off. Light glowed through the thick material before growing dim, Sherry coughed more the smoke getting caught in her throat making her coughs turn into wheezes by the time she reached the window Esme opened.]

I think it's out.

[albionchanged]

So what now?

[Esme walked over to the sink and filled a glass with water for her before bringing it over.]

[g_jr]

"I guess I'll have to clean it up..." Sherry said as she took the glass of water. "But that can wait."

Sherry drank half the water in one long swallow. "But that can wait, can you look at the fridge, I got some take out numbers stuck to it."

While Esme was doing that, Sherry was going to carefully flip the power button on the wall off before pulling the plug, the last thing they needed was a spark starting a second fire.