@mewatson, video/text, late morning 284

[agravating]

[The video feed starts in a bright and sterile morgue. A single drawer is open, a body bag unzipped and left where it sat on the drawer. A very slight collection of dust sits at the edge of the drawer, as if there had been something sitting there earlier. The camera pans through the remainder of the morgue quickly, as there isn't much else to see: more pristine counters and closed drawers.

Through a door, the video catching a peek of a red coat and a gloved hand opening the handle, and then the the camera reveals a darkened room. It's difficult to see; the tablet image jostles and a mini-flashlight turns on as the camera is straightened, and revealed are symbols of the prophet emblazoned everywhere. The entire area is decorated in a motif of black and red, curtains drawn, scattered chairs around the room and facing from. It's some kind of funeral home, and from the looks of it, it belonged to the cult.

After a few pans of the room, the video turns off.]

There is no mention of this building on any of the maps I've seen. Has anyone else seen it?

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[agravating]

What of the man claiming to be my husband?

[Mycroft may want to avoid the topic of her memory loss, but she won't allow it to slip by so simply--there are simply too many people here who know her for her to simply allow it to be a coincidence. There's no chance she's suddenly become a body snatcher, so there is something she doesn't understand.]

It isn't just him. Several people here claim to know me, and several claim to know me well. Why?

[holmesice]

You are familiar with amnesia, are you not? I'm sorry to inform you that you indeed, are suffering from it.

[agravating]

[Don't piss off the lady you're going to hire as an assassin in less than a week.]

Familiar enough to know that it is extraordinarily uncommon, particularly without significant head trauma. Considering I currently don't have a throbbing headache or other sign of concussion, I don't particularly fit the description well.

[holmesice]

Amnesia can be from other neurological issues. In this case, you won’t believe me because it involves advanced, unfamiliar technology, but if you’re willing to listen without getting emotional, I will attempt to explain.

[agravating]

[She thinks for a moment.

There was a guide on the tablet, with highlighted lines. Something about nanomachines. Revivals. Things going wrong. She imagines that's where this is going, since that's what the other one had asked, the one who had initially asked about her "price".]

I'm listening.

[holmesice]

There has been a...nuclear incident in the area and to avoid radiation poisoning, everyone located here has been outfitted with nanomachines in their blood to avoid the little trouble of dying horribly.

The nanomachines, whilst they do their job, also suffer from the occasional glitch, and our bodies are also affected by them
as well. You can imagine not everyone’s body takes lightly to this.

Are you with me so far?