Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

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[hotfixer]

[ does not laugh even though she usually would... ]

That sounds right.

[sarkazm]

...extra tough crowd tonight. Jeez.

[hotfixer]

That's why I come here. I know I'm a burden even when I'm happy. So when I'm unhappy...

[sarkazm]

Wait, wait, what? Why do you think that.

[hotfixer]

It's just a fact.

[sarkazm]

I don't think I've ever thought it was...?

[hotfixer]

Thank you.

[ anyway, ]

We'll find another way. One that doesn't involve... people hurting each other any more than is already happening.

[sarkazm]

[good she's cool with that. that was as nice as she can get in a single day.]

Think we'll be good on time?

[hotfixer]

We are closing in. There's only so many more places the problem could be, even if it's on the move.

[sarkazm]

Any ideas yet on what it is?

[hotfixer]

Not exactly. But it has been writing on people's mail and leaving us messages, so... Something sentient?

[sarkazm]

If it's sentient and people are getting possessed or whatever, you don't think it's, like. In someone. Right?

[hotfixer]

I think that's likely, yes.

[sarkazm]

[

flops onto her fucking back.]

I said I was going to stop saying shit, but no! Of course I didn't listen to me!

[hotfixer]

The thing is that "someone" doesn't narrow it down much. You've seen the range of people who are in this project alone. The different kinds of existences they are, the worlds they come from...

[sarkazm]

Yeah, and if it's been happening since just about the first week we were here... then wouldn't it have been going on the whole time? How would we know?

[hotfixer]

... At this point we have reason to believe this has been part of a longer-term sabotage. We should have been in communication with the healing center before you guys even got here, apparently, and I can't imagine that all went offline for a completely unrelated reason.

[sarkazm]

Shit... that bad, huh? So whatever it is snuck in even before us? Maybe before you, if the comms were never up on the first place?

[hotfixer]

Yes. We weren't even aware the other side existed until Caspian's message made it through.

[sarkazm]

Caspian...? Is that one of the others?

[that's a new name, though.]

[hotfixer]

Oh, sorry. He's the one who sent us the first message from the health center. Kiraman. I think.

[ she just keeps calling him caspian. ]

[sarkazm]

Oh, it's codenames or something...

That's gotta be the one you guys know then, right?

[hotfixer]

Think of them like job titles.

But yes. Caspian is... [ realizes she has no idea how to quantify caspian and gammie's relationship and so just trails off stupidly. ]

[sarkazm]

...is something. Right.

[she'll ask gamaliel later.]

Hey, so, was Gabe here before you guys?

[hotfixer]

By just a little bit. Why do you ask?