Saffron's dark-haired female bunkmate enters their small shared room, and waves a little piece of plastic. "Mail from home," she says. She asks if her bunkmate would like privacy to watch it—but her bunkmate explains that it's not for her. Her own family is from Toprawa, and "no mail comes off Toprawa"; she indicates that it's for Saffron herself.
Saffron seems a little surprised, but takes the card, saying that she herself doesn't need privacy as it's not like she has any secrets, and loads it up. It turns out to be a holographic transmission of a slightly roguish-looking, black-haired man in a modest room that incongrously has a landscape of blasted, black ground visible through the window. She frowns.
"It's—it's—Tavin Notsil," she says. "My brother."
The roommate: "I thought he was supposed to be—"
The recording quickly answers that question. "I know you must have thought I was dead," says the brother, and explains that he'd also thought she was dead, and that he'd made some "unusual arrangements" with the town constable and was earning an honest living under an assumed name elsewhere when "New Oldtown was hit," which explains the landscape outside.
Her roommate congratulates her, but Saffron doesn't seem pleased. Her brother continues on to say that he'd gotten a response for her application to a job, that hadn't heard of her apparent death, and reads back a section of her original letter. They'd apparently like to hire her, and he suggests that he might be happier there than on Coruscant, where he'd heard she had a job processing data. He glances offscreen, and says he's almost out of time, but that he'd like to hear back from her.
After she collects herself, and her roommate suggests that she might want to talk to the doctor since it's been a shock, she asks to have some time to herself to process it, and heads off at a brisk pace down the corridor.
General Takeaways: - Surname possibly "Notsil"? - Was most recently employed on a world called Coruscant, which seems to be extremely urban. - Thought her entire family was dead; hometown seems to have been destroyed with great prejudice. - Has one brother, alive, who she doesn't seem to like very much, or whose survival seems very unsettling to her.
Internal Knowledge: - She's in all the holos hanging on the wall in the house and she shouldn't be. - This man isn't her brother, and he knows who she really is. - She has no idea how to deal with him and is dreading figuring out how to.
002; tavin notsil
Saffron seems a little surprised, but takes the card, saying that she herself doesn't need privacy as it's not like she has any secrets, and loads it up. It turns out to be a holographic transmission of a slightly roguish-looking, black-haired man in a modest room that incongrously has a landscape of blasted, black ground visible through the window. She frowns.
"It's—it's—Tavin Notsil," she says. "My brother."
The roommate: "I thought he was supposed to be—"
The recording quickly answers that question. "I know you must have thought I was dead," says the brother, and explains that he'd also thought she was dead, and that he'd made some "unusual arrangements" with the town constable and was earning an honest living under an assumed name elsewhere when "New Oldtown was hit," which explains the landscape outside.
Her roommate congratulates her, but Saffron doesn't seem pleased. Her brother continues on to say that he'd gotten a response for her application to a job, that hadn't heard of her apparent death, and reads back a section of her original letter. They'd apparently like to hire her, and he suggests that he might be happier there than on Coruscant, where he'd heard she had a job processing data. He glances offscreen, and says he's almost out of time, but that he'd like to hear back from her.
After she collects herself, and her roommate suggests that she might want to talk to the doctor since it's been a shock, she asks to have some time to herself to process it, and heads off at a brisk pace down the corridor.
General Takeaways:
- Surname possibly "Notsil"?
- Was most recently employed on a world called Coruscant, which seems to be extremely urban.
- Thought her entire family was dead; hometown seems to have been destroyed with great prejudice.
- Has one brother, alive, who she doesn't seem to like very much, or whose survival seems very unsettling to her.
Internal Knowledge:
- She's in all the holos hanging on the wall in the house and she shouldn't be.
- This man isn't her brother, and he knows who she really is.
- She has no idea how to deal with him and is dreading figuring out how to.