Lucent Drive Owner: Located
| Lucent Drive Owner: Located | |
|---|---|
| Date of Cutscene: | 17 December 2023 |
| Location: | Juuban Ward |
| Synopsis: | Rashmi's patrolling for lost members of the crashed Arthras *finally* pays off! |
| Cast of Characters: | Rashmi Terios |
The problem with patrolling in the skies, Rashmi thought to herself, is that it's next to impossible to judge faces from all the way up here. Thus, with a sigh, she banked between a pair of skyscrapers, dropped down into a conveniently empty alleyway, let her Barrier Jacket dissolve into shards of golden light, and bade Nicomachea resume his standby mode. Slipping out of the alley, she joined the throngs of people traveling up and down Juuban.
Perhaps she'll have more luck on the ground?
A few blocks away, she rounded a corner and spotted, across the street, a construction site for what might become one of Juuban's lesser towers. Not likely to be one of the ultra-grand office spectacles, the outer fences were nonetheless ringed with advertisements breathlessly exhorting the profitable opportunities coming soon. It was, on balance, not terribly remarkable. Not a place one would expect to find a lost, amnesiac alien.
And yet, as she passed by the blocked-off entrance to the site, Nicomachea pinged once, very loudly.
<< POSSIBLE MATCH FOUND, >> the book extolled inside her head. << BEGIN VISUAL VERIFICATION PROCEDURES -- TARGET IS FORTY DEGREES TO YOUR RIGHT. >>
Simultaneously, one of the IDs from Chrono's files was brought up, the mental image overlaid on reality in a way that would be a major selling point of AR glasses; The photo was of a square-jawed woman, with a look in her eyes that proclaimed she had no time for anyone's nonsense, and perpetually scruffy, shoulder-length yellow hair. Sure enough, the blond woman carting a wheelbarrow full of cement-worker's tools had the same face, the same impatient look and the same air of... *scruffiness.*
<< DAMAGE CONTROL SPECIALIST TAKANORI ISORAI -- 92% CONFIDENCE OF MATCH. RECOMMEND ENFORCER CHRONO BE CALLED TO PERFORM FINAL VERIFICATION. >>
Honestly, Chrono was the only one who would be able to be certain. He was, after all, the one holding onto the crew's Devices, and he'd need-- uh.
<< LUCENT DRIVE >>
--Lucent Drive to be the final judge of identity. But all the same, hope swelled in her heart. Chrono had been hit *hard* by that Dark Energy poisoning, and Rashmi privately believed that the reason he had, was because there were two insidious inroads into the heart of his fear; the fact that his loved ones might be in danger, and the fact that his remaining crew have lost almost all their memories. Both of those together mean that his lost crew -- and especially his mother -- could just have tripped facefirst into lethal harm, and no one would ever have known.
And on a *good* day, that is a terrifying thought.
<< Nico-kun, >> Rashmi thought, turning away from the site and continuing on her way, << Please send a message to Chrono; include coordinates, and tell him that Damage Control Specialist Takanori Isorai might have been spotted working in a construction crew at this site, and that he'll want to bring Lucent Drive to verify. And if he wants me there when he checks, I'll be there. >>
<< COMMAND INPUT ACKNOWLEDGE, >> Nicomachea responded.
