Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

Comments

[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?

[sarkazm]

I mean, we've been talking about how you think it might be in someone and how it might be sabotage and shit, that happened before you guys got here...

So! Just asking!

[hotfixer]

... I can promise you that it isn't Gabriel.

[sarkazm]

You can be absolutely positive of it?

[hotfixer]

Yes.

I trust Gabriel. And we have been working on isolating whoever is doing this at times when Gabriel is right there beside us.

[sarkazm]

I like the guy too, but we are talking possession and shit here? I'm not saying it'd literally be Gabe wanting to fuck you over, I'm just saying that could've been how your little hitchhiker got in.

[a little huff of a sigh.]

Being right there is also kind of a great way to make sure you don't pinpoint something.

[hotfixer]

[ she is thinking about this... less because she's considering what wisadel is saying and more because she is, for once, thinking over what to say back. ]

... I don't think that's the case.

From the way they move around in Heaven, I think they just have... means of transportation in general? There's still not much we know about them, but we know enough that I don't suspect Gabriel at all. Even by accident.

[sarkazm]

...if you're positive, then I'll trust you when you say that's how it is.

[as if wis'adel knows shit about the tracking they've been doing on this thing.]

Better for it to be like that, anyway.

[hotfixer]

Thank you.

I appreciate that you're thinking about it trying to figure stuff out with us. I just think... It's something else. If it piggy-backed off of someone, it wouldn't be Gabriel.

[sarkazm]

Ugh, who else would it even fucking be then, God?!

Must've just found a hole somewhere.

[hotfixer]

It also definitely not God.

[sarkazm]

I'd sure hope not!

That one wasn't serious, by the way.