[ bariyan is in no state to be dealing with this right now. he has to play through the whole message a couple times and process it piece-by-piece. ]

God damn it. I knew nothing good was going to come of this.

I'm not letting them send the children on another mission. Not after last time.

[ and in response to the encrypted message: ] It seems that you did. What about you? Are you all right? Were they cooperative? In answering, that is.

[ with that, he ends the transmission. only to have it come back on a few seconds later. sounding slightly less angry, and a lot more worried: ]

...blinking out of existence... that's not... what happened to everyone who's gone missing, is it?