Stroke 1: Video SN: Bellsareme

[relance]

[The blond woman is standing in Dorm 2, because aren't you all lucky, and she just looks annoyed by the bed sunken into the floor. Letting out a sigh, she just shoves some fingers through her hair before she addresses the network.]

Ugh. So kidnapped. Excellent. [Sarcasm at it's finest.] I'm sure that you're really fucking sick of people who post about being kidnapped, so sorry to do that. But I'm not because I need some things. So, I've been doing some reading and apparently there's like a market and whatever. Art supplies. I need a shitton of them, and probably a space for a studio. I'm fairly certain that my dorm mates would appreciate me not painting here. Fumes and all.

If nothing else I may as well get some work done.

[Shrugging, Julia moves on:]

I'm Julia. Not Jules, not Julie, just Julia. I'm from New York in 2017. I'm sure there isn't anyone from my world here so you don't need that.

[She only cares about one person anyway. And checking to see if he was here was the first thing she did.]

So some random trivia I suppose. [It comes with an easy grin.] I like spicy food, a good whiskey and long walks on the beach. Which moot point here. Anyway. Art supplies and a studio space info would be much appreciated.

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Voice: un.TheStrandInstitute

[nobasisinfact]

Don't cause trouble.

[relance]

[Well now you have her focus, Richard. And her suspicion. Even if she does laugh it off with:]

Please like I ever would do that.

[nobasisinfact]

You always do that.

[relance]

Big words from a man I’ve never meant.

Besides I don’t always do anything.

Wait. Did we sleep together or something. Were you a professor at NYU?

[nobasisinfact]

No.

[God, no! He would never sleep with Julia, even if he weren't with Alex. She's practically a teenager.]

I knew you in a different time.

[relance]

Well I mean college is a different time.

But when do you mean?

[nobasisinfact]

A place called Riverview.

[relance]

Sounds like a mental hospital. Or a prison. You sure it was me?

[nobasisinfact]

Quite.

[relance]

Why?

[nobasisinfact]

Because we've met. This could have been an alternate version of you.

[Or she could have forgotten.]

[relance]

And you don’t like me this much? Are you really sure we didn’t have sex. Kinda reminding me of a few exes in my time.

[nobasisinfact]

I am completely certain.

[relance]

Then why do you dislike me so much?

[nobasisinfact]

You were annoying and caused trouble. Other than that, I don't.

[relance]

There is more to that story though.

[nobasisinfact]

No.

[relance]

No, I definitely think you're lying.

[nobasisinfact]

You'll be wrong.

[relance]

No I wouldn't. As I said, seems a lot for just finding me annoying.

So accordingly, I'm going to act under the assumption we slept together and respond in kind until you tell me the truth.

[Beneath her amused words are unmistakably the undercurrent of a threat that Julia is indeed going to carry out.]

[nobasisinfact]

I'm afraid you're going to be very disappointed. You hit on me, I rejected you.

[relance]

Then why does it bother you? I'm hardly the sort of person who would go all Fatal Attraction on you.

[nobasisinfact]

It doesn't. I simply stated that you not cause trouble.

[relance]

In an incredibly condescending asshole way.

[nobasisinfact]

That's my normal way of speaking.