[Locked to Katniss, Finnick, Johanna, the IT, SEES, & previous rescuees.][Chie is red-faced, puffy-eyed, and sniffling when she turns on her webcam, but the way she's glaring at the camera makes her look more dangerous than a crying schoolgirl ought to be capable of. Her voice wavers just a little when she begins to talk, but it quickly steadies.]
Okay guys. I guess by now you've probably all seen that someone else has disappeared into the Dark Hour. Usually it's my b-buddy Souji who's making these announcements, but he's... he's not back to shore yet, and he put me in charge when he put me on the lifeboat, so I guess it's going to be me. I'll be leading the rescue squad into the Dark Hour, and if you don't like it, then.... then I'll kick your ass!
Um.
[She looks offscreen and takes a couple deep breaths, then stares back at the camera, determined.]
Katniss and Finnick and Johanna, this message is mostly for you, to try and explain what's happening. We're going to get Peeta back, but we need your help. The message you saw on the network isn't exactly from Peeta, it's more... it's more like the parts of himself that he hides and, um, that he doesn't like very much are getting a voice of their own. The place where he is right now is really... messed up and crazy and hard to navigate, because it all has to do with the bad stuff that's inside everybody's heads. And if we can't find him in time, then... he's in really big trouble.
One of my friends has a way to track him down so we can save him, but he needs to know... everything any of you can tell us about Peeta, because he needs to understand the way he thinks before he's able to smell him. All I could tell him were stories about working at Belgium-san's bakery, but what we really need to know are things about his past, or problems that he's been having, because those are sort of the key to figuring this all out and... I don't even know if I'm making any sense! But we're going in tonight, as soon as we can, and the more we know when we do the quicker this will be. Okay. Um.
Chie out.