[voice]

[sword_redemption]

[After their last conversation, Drift has realized Vandal was right. He needed to 'man up'...whatever that technically meant. And it wasn't the kind of conversation he thought you should have over comm. Or entirely sober. So he's stopped by the bar and picked up a bottle of that whiskey stuff she usually drank, and drove out to Vandal's little mobile trailer.]

[When the voice message begins, it may be clear to someone who knows Drift fairly well that he's trying to hide a sort of nervous anxiety.]

...anyone, uh, anyone seen Vandal?

((OOC: He's at Vandal's place, I'm keeping this vague here so more people who get involved can come on by the trailer and discover stuff! They will also likely discover a broken whiskey bottle from him dropping it.))

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[percept]

I haven't heard from her since she announced her hiatus.

Is everything alright?

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[sword_redemption]

[He pauses to lock the feed.]

....I don't think so. She's not here.

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[percept]

At her trailer? [ Oh dear. ]

Is there any sign of where she might have gone?

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[sword_redemption]

Yeah.

Nothing I can find but... [Shrug. He's not really a detective.] It looks like, uh, something happened.

[If he doesn't say it out loud does that make it not happen? ]

[Video] (Can I safely assume in their conversation there's mention he was going to see her?)

[winged_knight]

[.....]

No, not since our last conversation. Ah, is she not there?

[That seems...strange.]

[Video] (More likely Wing would be the one to tell Drift to talk to her, I'm thinking )

[sword_redemption]

No. She's.. Not here.

I don't want to comm her, uh, in case....[You know. In case she hates his guts.]

[Video]

[aerospacecommander]

Lose one of your pets?

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

She's not a pet.

[Drift still has weird memories of Starscream kind of hitting on him. So...ewww. And also...suspicious. ]

What do you know about this? [Drift: DETECTIVE.]

[Video] (I was thinking the same thing. ;3)

[winged_knight]

I...can't imagine she'd have changed her mind.

Given the way things are around here? Any kind of disappearance is cause for--concern. [Alarm, is more like. But let's not make this panic time.] She loves you Drift, even if she's mad she'll forgive you.

[And if she doesn't was it really love?]

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[thxforthememories]

No. No, she didn't call me back.

[And guess who's been waiting by the proverbial phone the whole time?]

voice;

[sword_redemption]

_frag.

Do you know where she might have gone? Or...anyone who might have wanted to, uh, hurt her? [Trying to be cool and collected here, despite the evidence around him.]

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[thxforthememories]

Hurt her?

Why would you say that?

[Video] (you know Drift too well )

[sword_redemption]

I can. Wing. I.

I think something's wrong.

I mean, more than that. [You know: the Hindenburg of his social life.]

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[sword_redemption]

[AHAHAHA NO REASON.]

It's just that she's, uh, not here.

And.

Things don't look right. [That is not a crunch of broken glass as Drift steps on something. Nope. Not at all.]

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[thxforthememories]

What --

What's happening? What are you talking about, 'things don't look right'?

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[sword_redemption]

Not right.

[He is just going to lock this because otherwise it's depressing.]

I don't know. I, uh, I'm the one who breaks things, not figure out how they got broken. It's just there's, uh, broken stuff.

[Video] (by now I hope so XD)

[winged_knight]

[Ohhhh, that's not what he wanted to hear. He can tell, from the tone. There's wrong and then there's Wrong.]

Drift. What. What is it? Tell me.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

She's gone. And the place is a mess.

[He hesitates. ] Maybe I should check the Badlands.

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[thxforthememories]

Broken things...?

I-- I can come. I can come out there.

[He never got the chance to be a Real Detective, but the programming has to still be there... Right?]

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[sword_redemption]

[A sound of relief.]

Please. I'm just going to, uh, not touch anything.

[Video]

[winged_knight]

What do you mean it's a mess? ...like she trashed it herself?

[He wouldn't put it past her...is she was angry enough, maybe. Though she seemed more exhaustively depressed than angry when he finished talking with her.]

No, not yet... [He pauses, he's thinking aloud right now.] If--IF--that's the case she won't have gotten far on foot. I can search an area between her trailer and that direction just to rule it out though... Or we can split it up.

There are no other clues there?

[Video/lock]

[sword_redemption]

...I don't know.

[He doesn't put it past her either. She had been upset with him. But really, he didn't want to think he was capable of hurting her that deeply. That she'd want to destroy the trailer he'd helped her bring from the Junk Pile or that she'd...leave.]

Kagerou's coming. He might be able to help figure out what happened.

...I hate to say I hope she's just mad at me.

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[forcowardice]

She's gone?

I was gonna go-- What happened?

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[thxforthememories]

Good. I... I remember you're not supposed to do that. Until the police arrive.

I'll try and remember more. As a detective should.

[Just going to leave a note for Kay and then take off.]

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[winged_knight]

I'll start the furthest I think she could have gotten and work my way to you. [...] Is she wearing her rig you think? [He could hope. It had a far easier energy signature to scan for.]

[He's moving already because if it is the calling, every moment counts.]

Good. We need more optics, eyes, whatever, on this. [He huffs, trying to push tension away.]

I...I hope so too Drift. Because that's easy enough to fix...