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[gevurah]

[ PRIVATE to LILY ]

Hey, I got you the scarf while I was away.


[ PRIVATE to ELLIE & DICK ]

[ The messages are sent to their tablets separately: ]

Got you something.


[ Her voice, while somewhat tired, is leveled as she speaks. ]

For the time being, the clinic should be stocked with some personal hygienic products anyone might have been wondering about. There's shampoos, soaps, sanitary napkins, and pads and tampons for the ladies. There's also patches for smokers. Anything else you're looking for, like medicine or bandages, you'll have to check with someone at the clinic.

Anyway, I asked the AI the decrypt a couple of drives belonging to the UE. There were various analytical notes specializing in robotics, specifically robotic spacecraft — rovers. For those unfamiliar: a rover is a vehicle used in space explorations. Depending on the design, they can either be partially or completely operated on their own, or they can transport crews.

There's a couple of bad ideas that come to mind knowing this information: one being they may have plans to come up here eventually and if they aren't fully aware how many of us are here, they'll find out.

Research also indicated "interdimensional colonization". We've been well aware for a while they're able to access portals into other worlds.

The drives also contained some notes on Project Chimera and talks of previous genetic projects the UE's researched. I'll forward anyone who wants a copy of these notes to look over.

[ For those who ask and receive: here. ]

Has anyone begun to compile the information we have together to make it more streamlined? I imagine the AI can likely do it if you ask.

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[velveteened]

( he laughs, just a little. )

No no, he's a more distant relation. I just take after him quite a bit.

( in appearance, of course, and even demeanor in some ways. it's not a comparison he's especially fond of the majority of the time, but he doesn't betray any discomfort about it now. )

[gevurah]

[ This boy is way too evasive for someone his age. ]

Distant.

[ It occurs to her a second later; she's so stupid. The Transporter can pull anyone. ]

Ancestor.

[velveteened]

That's right! He lived a hundred years before my time.

( jack's hardly been secretive about how he's dead in their world — more or less )

[gevurah]

That must be something.

[ Wow. Much ancient. Much crazy. ]

[velveteened]

It was really a surprise to run into him!

[gevurah]

[ Why is she beating around the bush on this? Would Oz even know? She'll have to find another approach; Oz is dodgy with her at times, much to her irritation, and she doubts he'll be forthcoming with her if he's attached to his ancestor. ]

Family history is good to know. Plus, he gets to learn from you, too.

[velveteened]

Aah, I don't know about that.

( what does A HERO have to learn from him, come on. )

[gevurah]

Oh?

[ How to not murder people!! ]

[velveteened]

( shhh )

Well, he's well-known in our world for his accomplishments. His name is the sort everyone knows about.

( it's not an admission he's given anyone else, but is, he thinks, innocuous enough; and explains his surprise, how he's used to the standards to live up to and not any thought of vice versa. )

[gevurah]

A famous ancestor.

[ Her father and stepmother are famous in their ways. ]

[velveteened]

Really, it was him that made our name what it is.

( from a third rate noble house, as lottie had put it. )

[gevurah]

Then it really is something to talk to him in person.

What did he do?

[velveteened]

( sablier isn't a specter he wants to raise with the memory of another lost city so fresh. )

What else do heroes do? He saved a lot of people! If you wanted to hear about everything he's done, you'd have to be ready to listen all night.

1/2

[gevurah]

[ Saved people.

Really. ]

[gevurah]

[ She was not expecting that. ]

You must be proud of him, then.

[velveteened]

( jack is a hero )

Who wouldn't be, right?

[gevurah]

[ She thinks of her father.

She feels angry, but she buries it quickly. ]

Heh, right.

[velveteened]

( his struggles are with the inadequacy, but the ways he seems to perpetually come up short seem too obvious, visible to anyone who's known the two of them at all.

there's a pause in any case, and then he recalls the conversation they started with here in the first place. he'll be taking a look at the files later, but in the meantime... )

Anyway, I hope you were able to find at least some of what I'd found out useful.

( but from his tone doesn't particularly think it was. )

[gevurah]

It was, actually.

[ Like she said, struggle is good.

And Jack is a hero, hrm. ]

I know it's not easy to talk about, Oz.

[velveteened]

That's good.

( goes to answer the second statement, draws in a breath, but ultimately — doesn't address it. even talking about how it isn't easy to talk about isn't easy, apparently )

[gevurah]

[ A pause. ]

You're okay now.

[ She knows it might not be true and she's not often good with words for situations like this, despite having been a vaguely similar ordeal years ago. The difference was terrorists didn't experiment on her, she was just to be killed eventually. Like her mother. ]

[velveteened]

( it makes him pause in turn before he laughs slightly, surprised at the reassurance. )

I know. Thank you.

[gevurah]

[ She pauses again, not quite sure what to say. ]

You're welcome.