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serket.vriska@cdc.org
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I'm in. Just looking at the sky. Can you see it?

From the inside, now.

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8arely. I'm still wondering what we're in for.

Are you actually in your rover?

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Yes. One hundred percent. I hope everyone else got in.

I might have a riddle for you.

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Haha, what? A riddle? That's not suspiciously out of the 8lue or anything! 8ut fine, let's hear it.

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Mmm.

What's black, and fast, and appears in the sky?

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[ About ten seconds go by before she responds. ]

The attack the instructors were trying to protect us from. Holy shit!

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[Have a barrage of messages, Vriska.]

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Wait, you think it's an attack?

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Really?

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I was hoping we might be talking about extreme weather. Rain or something. A volcano or a flock of birds or something else natural.

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You really think they'd go this far to protect us from something natural instead of leaving us to fend for ourselves?

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I don't!

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8ut either way, we're going to find out!

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I believe they'll do what's best for the mission. And even for us, yes. As long as we cooperate.

[These little outbursts of semi-support are becoming a regular thing.]

But it looks like a _cloud_. Something small in the sky.

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Or something large, far away and getting closer. Wish I had radar.

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Oh, put a foot sheath in it, Simon.

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To 8e honest with you, I wish I was out there.

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Meanie.

[Sometimes she makes him feel thirteen years old as well. It's a bit of a relief.]

Maybe you would have been able to do something. Maybe a lot of us would. Or maybe it's more than any of us could handle. [And that's scary. Him, yes, but the camp is full of people who could step on him and not even notice.]

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8oohoo. Cry me a river!

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May8e. I don't know. My friends are out there. I just h8 sitting in here while they're a8out to deal with ........ that.

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Wait. Who is left outside?

[He's texted everyone he knows well, but there are a lot, lot more...]

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I don't have the whole list. I have 8een trying to check, 8ut without having at least a vague idea of who else might 8e out there, it is taking a while.

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I know Kotetsu got stranded.

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He wasn't alone.

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You mean Mr Kaburagi? Who organised the sweep?

[How did he get left out, of all people? But no; Simon knows how it happened. It's obvious.]

Stupid martyr instincts. My tracking keeps cutting out. [And this message will be delayed, for the same reasons.]

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Yes. And mine is, too.

Eren Jaeger is out there as well. So is Kotetsu's partner. That's all I know so far.

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I wonder if we're clogging up the network with these requests. Like when a bomb goes off.

Miss Carter said it was in hand.

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Urgh. May8e. 8ut I sort of don't want to hold off, either.

If you mean you'll 8e a8le to fit all their remains in one hand, then yeah, sure!

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Vriska, that's revolting. Shame on you. [It would be lighthearted, almost, if she could hear him.]

Mr Kaburagi's partner. That's not the blond man I've seen him with?

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::::P Haha. You've certainly developed a tolerance for the maca8re, haven't you?

I guess so. He called him 8unny. He can't mean a literal hop8east, so I'm gonna guess that's the same guy!

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There's no name in the file. It just mentions a partner. No bunnies in the crew directory.

Strange file, too. Though not as strange as yours, you'll be glad to hear. I almost sympathise with him.

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[ The file?

For the first time, it occurs to her she's never read Kotetsu's file. And she's read everyone's files. ]

Kotetsu is a strange guy. Strange and pro8a8ly dead.

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[Simon stopped to look it up when he volunteered. And he just checked it again. He's like that.]

Apparently his fried rice is very good. I should ask him about that. When he gets back.

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Oh 8oy, pointless optimism! Just what I was looking for.

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Whereas you're offering - what? You're giving up on him before he even starts. The situation's bad, not hopeless.