voice

[anklets]

[This query brought to you by a pretty handful of missing puzzle pieces, not that you'd know, since Lenalee has no intent to justify or explain that imagery, nor to keep picking at scabs until they fester.]

We've already seen how the smallest change made can rewrite the entire history of this world. People are unborn, warheads are undropped... because we've cut out the circumstances which led to their happening.

How do you think that it might be the same for us? Transports come and go so often here and no one knows why. Whatever we do, we are always altering chances, there is no reason not to consider they could also be our own. That someone arrived on a day no longer existing may suddenly leave, or return by new circumstance, or forget they were ever here before.

It may be that we don't "go home", just. "Never arrive".

[ about ten minutes after broadcast, through careful squinting and experimentation, the feed is locked from Gilbert Nightray ]

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[sorrowfulcry]

[and, like usual, the joke's on Lenalee; he's already dead]

So what brought this about? The weather's too damn cold to worry about this sort of thing.

[anklets]

[ AHAHA HAHAHA HA... ha... ]

What does the weather have to do with it?

[sorrowfulcry]

[you can almost see the eyeroll he's giving her]

Because there's probably more important shit to concern yourself with. And don't try to derail this conversation; I asked you a question first.

[anklets]

[ hear it, taste it ]

It is important. [ she is impassioned on this ] Whether you think it or not.

[sorrowfulcry]

So? [a challenge]

I asked what brought this about? Or are you just going to continue being a sad little girl missing her friends and dragging everyone down with her?

[she sounds like Argilla after Jinana's death. All righteous and angry over something that's unavoidable]

[anklets]

[ terse: ] I've watched people come and go without any rhyme or reason to it since I came here. That- thing [ the Transporter ] is still a mystery, even to the remaining members of the old Initiative; we know hardly anything more about it now than a year ago. To go any longer without asking questions would be ridiculous.

[sorrowfulcry]

Hey, I'm all for going all out if things don't go your way or whatever way you want it to go, but even I realize just shooting wildly isn't going to get anyone anywhere. Not for shit like this, anyway.

[a thoughtful pause, because he knew how the Karma Society got it's shit to troll everyone with, but here?] How did the original Initiative get their hands on this anyway?

[anklets]

It's a modification of United Earth technology, I think.

[Fighting fire with fire! She hopes everything doesn't burn down for it.]

I'm sure we haven't the control or knowledge of it that they do.

[sorrowfulcry]

Wow, no wonder there was a mutiny last year. [well, he's amused]

I wouldn't be surprised if they had just as much info as we do about this Transport thing. We would have found other people like us fighting for the United Earth's side if they knew how this thing actually worked. Instead they've apparently done nothing but steal our powers for themselves. Bastards. [because the Karma Society just turning everyone into Demons after testing the Demon Virus' effectiveness on AIs was somehow better?]

Look. We're here now. Whatever comrades you had before are gone. What did you want?

[anklets]

[Haah. She struggles to voice herself, finding that everything what wants to come up first isn't at all what she ought to say.]

Some honesty, for once. [ she guesses ] Thank you for that.

[sorrowfulcry]

... Hmph. [Argilla would have hit him for what he just said... This girl reminds him a bit of his pink haired comrade; stronger than initial appearances would suggest but still so sentimental. He'd overheard Sera talking with Serph about it once. 'A considerate but more dangerous way to live']

That it? Nothing else to defend yourself with?

[anklets]

[To defend herself means to be attacked, doesn't it?...]

This isn't a situation where I need to defend myself. [ painful though it was to breach this topic, she wanted to learn, where she was wrong, where the variances lay ] It's useless to turn on one another like that.

[sorrowfulcry]

[a scoff. Well, there goes his fun]

Yet you still went with this hot debate topic. [a puff of air] Looks like you got some interesting responses.