voice!

[wronganswer]

[ It's not immediately after arriving that Anderson finally accesses the network. Out of sorts and deeply discomfited, she falls back on professionalism, as she's been trained to do, and scopes out the area first. This reconnaissance includes a brief mental skim of assorted passersby, mostly to gauge honesty and make sure this isn't an elaborate psychic-induced hallucinatory trap.

She's strong, but she's not invulnerable. She knows that's a possibility.

Except... it seems like it isn't, and she really is here, wherever 'here' is in the universe. After the two days she's spent poking around and reassuring herself of the reality of everything, though, that's not even the most incredulous part to her. ]

Looking for some information. [ Her voice is smooth, pleasant, a young woman's voice largely stripped of tone and easy to listen to. ] Someone told me there's no police here.

No judges.

How does that... work? Has anyone had experience with the intermediary system?

[ How can a place like this exist? It seems impossible to her. And just who is she, here? Who is she if not a Judge? ]

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[inconsequence]

No? Are you quite certain? Everyone certainly seems to be doing it these days. It's the hip new thing, didn't you know?

[wronganswer]

I'm a Judge and you're not in my jurisdiction.

[ Trusting them is another matter, but for Anderson, the rest really is as simple as that. ]

[inconsequence]

What makes you so sure that I don't fall under your jurisdiction, exactly?

[wronganswer]

Unless this is some fucked up hallucinatory version of Mega-City One, I'm good.

[inconsequence]

So it's a physical boundary. Good to know!

[Seeing as, ha ha, any judge worth their salt would have condemned Chara a long time ago! Even lazy, layabout skeletons who have nothing better to do but threaten toddlers in restaurants can tell, simply from a glance, that Chara is a bad person, after all!]

[wronganswer]

[ She's met plenty of bad people-- many more than good people. At this point, Anderson frankly doesn't care. She's had criminals try to shock a reaction out of her every which way possible, even moreso once they find out she can see in their heads.

As odd as it may seem, this is the most familiar conversation she's had so far here. ]

Thanks for the information.

[ Snippy or professional? Sort of hard to tell in text, although truthfully it's both. ]

[inconsequence]

[Honestly, it's probably for the best that she hasn't gotten the opportunity to meet Chara in person and find them out as, in fact, a very edgy child of uncertain age and not the manipulative mastermind they'd probably like to sell themself as.]

Certainly. :)