03 | Voice | Backdated to the evening of the 10th

[healplz]

Bariyan is dead.

[ Someone is having difficulties sounding his usual calm and measured today! This comes out sounding pretty forced. ]

I tried to — I'm sorry. I could do nothing for him, and... and perhaps the Initiative, as they've done for others, will return him. I couldn't— 

[ a pause. ]

I'm sorry.

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[selfloyalty]

[GUESS WHO'S NOT SURPRISED.]

And is this because of Martin?

[healplz]

It... it is, yes.

[selfloyalty]

Maker this is why...

[AN INTAKE OF BREATH]

And he still has yet to be apprehended?

[healplz]

That's correct. Koltira has shouldered the burden, in Bariyan's absence.

[selfloyalty]

Let us hope he does not meet the same fate as his predecessor.

[healplz]

He will not. I can ensure that much, at least.

[selfloyalty]

And...what will become of the boy?

[healplz]

I... I am no longer sure.

[selfloyalty]

[ugh so many mixed feelings ugh.

a long pause, and finally:]

I see.

[healplz]

[ bit of a... guilty, vaguely self-disgusted pause here, then: ]

Is there anything else I may answer for you?