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[invocate]

Li-Na Yiu shared a video. 10/04 near Viea Village

[The video opens with a shot of a pair of black, shiny ballet flats. But there is a... odd quality to the shine. An almost metallic look to it.] So... I got these in the mail today. From Retrospec. I guess they belong to the girl I am having memories of? [Her hand appears in the frame as she picks up one of the shoes and turns it from side to side.] I am not sure what to think of them? The material is a little... stiff? [She taps the shoe against the table they are sitting on, which produces a soft metallic sound.] Well. They are my size. [Her phone camera bobs as she sets the shoes on the ground and slips her feet inside. A second later, the shoes come to life, WRAPPING their way up her legs until they reach mid-thigh. Though, that detail might get lost, as the moment the shoes... boots start to shift, Li-Na drops her phone and begins to scream.]

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[redarm]

[He watches the video. At first it doesn't seem like anything special, but when she taps the shoe- the metallic sound? It's all too familiar. His claws make that sound when they hit something.

Too bad it's a video and not in person, because he sure yelled "Don't put them on-" but like she could hear that? And it's too late, the shoes are on and COMING TO LIFE. Shit man. So that was her weapon.

Brb TRYING TO CALL HER.]

phone~

[invocate]

[Li-Na pauses in her frantic attempts to peel the boots off her legs whenh er phone suddenly rings. Grabbing her phone she looks at the caller ID... and immediately answers.]

Noah! Noah, they won't come off!

[yeah... she's pretty freaked out and close to tears]

[redarm]

[The poor girl...he can't even blame her. He was screaming his head off when his arm showed up.

But that didn't mean he wanted Li-Na to have to through the same ordeal.]

Li-Na, it's okay. Take a deep breath.

Try to focus and will the shoes to deactivate.

[invocate]

[Li-Na hiccups as fights back a sob]

They won't come off. Noah, I can't take them off.

[just keep talking to her Noah]

[redarm]

I know, it's freaky. But it'll be okay.

They're probably your power. You remember anything about that in your visions?

[invocate]

No... no, I don't...

[and then a thought comes to mind, something she hadn't paid much attention to when she'd remembered the memories, but now... with the pressure and weight of these things on her legs...]

They were heavy... her feet and legs... they were sort of heavy...

[redarm]

Heavy like lead?

[invocate]

Lead? Maybe... she could feel them, around her legs. Always there, at the back of her mind, the weight.

[redarm]

[...Okay he meant it more literally and not so dramatically, but whatever]

Okay.

It sounds like those shoes were your weapons. It sounds really similar to mine.

[invocate]

[look, you have a pair of shoes wrap around your legs like an anaconda, you get a little leeway for being dramatic]

Weapons? You mean to fight the monsters with?

[redarm]

Yeah.

Don't know the details, but that seems like what our group did.

[invocate]

They do not look like weapons.

[Srsly, how do you fight monsters with footwear.]

[redarm]

Yeah, they are kinda weird...

Maybe they turn into greaves?

[invocate]

I do not know....

I want them to come off now...

[She's starting to calm down now. Maybe this time she'll be able to take them off...]

[redarm]

Okay...

Try focusing on willing them to deactivate. Sometimes saying it out loud helps too.

[invocate]

[takes a deep breath... let's it out]

Focus... okay...

[AND THE LINE GOES DEAD B/C LI-NA HASN'T CHARGED HER PHONE YET TODAY and trying to keep this from overlapping with Chiyo too much]

[redarm]

[There's a pause, as he realizes he hears nothing]

- Li-Na?

[He pulls the phone from his ear, seeing that the call is ended. Calling again? Just gets her voicemail]

Fuck.

[invocate]

[some twenty minutes later... after Li-Na gets the boots to deactivate and plugs her phone in, she sees that's Noah tried to call... and calls him back]

Sorry. My phone closed.

[redarm]

[He'll pick up immediately and that sounds very much like a sigh of relief. Since yeah, he was worried]

You alright?

[invocate]

Yes. I am okay now.

[her voice is noticeably calmer now]

I deactivated the shoes.

[redarm]

[BREATHES]

Thank god.

I mean, nice going!

[invocate]

I put them in the box and I put the box in the closet.

[Way, way, in the back of the closet, at the very, very top. Where hopefully no one will find them.]

Until I know more, I am not putting them on again.

[redarm]

That's a good idea...

I wish I could take mine off.

[invocate]

[that's right... Noah's claw is kiiind of attached to him permanently]

Why... do you know why yours is like that?

[redarm]

[A DEFINITE PAUSE.]

Visions, of course.

[SURE DIDN"T HAVE IT GO BERSERK AND WRECK A STORE, NO SIREEEEEEE]