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[ 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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Gil, it's fine.

I'm not familiar with space engineering or genetics myself.

You know more as you are now than I ever will.

[He didn't even know about planes until she'd told him to look them up in the library.]

You'll learn.

If you don't believe you will, you won't.

[A small, sharp inhale.]

Yeah. That's true.

[It's more self-defeatist than the motivational reaction that she was probably trying to encourage.]

We don't have a lot up here, but we've got the AI, library, information on the tablets.

Use them.

Knowledge is also power.

I'll do my best.

[He almost sounds like he's ready to say goodbye, but before that one last question.]

Did they explain...ah, what sorts of experiments they had used on those who had been kidnapped?

[Oz had glossed over it, and Gilbert had never noticed any injuries on him so he'd let it go, but it's coming more and more clear just how much any of them understand about the technology involved here.]

[ If only he could see her shaking her head. ]

I imagine they used a lot of needles and drugs, but I can't otherwise.

Oz hasn't talked about it?

[Needles and drugs...

Gilbert goes quiet a moment before answering.]

He'd mostly avoided the subject since then.

[ She closes her eyes, thinks back to the darkness she sat in for what felt like an eternity, until the veil lifted and her father pulled her out of a room that stank of blood and death.

Dead bodies all around her, her mother's, and what she believed at the time was her sister's. ]

He's scared. It's normal.

I won't forgive them.

Neither will I.

We'll stop them.

I'm serious about trying to find a way in.

[He'd already be on his way if he had any clue whatsoever where to begin researching how to get into the UE facility on his own.]

We can't burst in on them all gung-ho. Not without a plan.

But if there's a chance to figure out a way...

We will figure it out.

But until then, we're not going in without a plan. We're risking hundreds of lives that way.

[He takes in a shallow breath. Reminders like that are enough to help ground him, but he's still too angry about it all to think straight.]

Yeah. You're right.

[ While her voice is quiet, it resonates with self-assurance as she speaks. ]

I won't let them hurt Oz again.

Or anyone else.

Edited 2013-10-22 03:08 (UTC)

...Thank you.

[For the mission, for her help here, for her hard work making sure that they can all get through this together, for grounding him against bad decisions. For kindness that he doesn't deserve.]

Once I've read through this, we should meet another time to talk about it more thoroughly.

Let me know when. I might be off on a mission sometime this month, but nothing that should take a day or two.

Take care of yourself.

[Just a gentle reminder.]

Heh.

I'll be fine. Watch yourself instead.

[He deserves that, he knows.

And with that he hangs up and goes to read through this file. If he can figure out how to open it...]

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