[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[0thingsonmymind]

id▓▓ot know
iam sⓍr ry

@totheark; really early morning 163

[0thingsonmymind]

*Once everything has calmed down and the network is back to normal, Beckett will get a copy of this in his in inbox. Along with a link to these conversations.*

voice;

[bookofnope]

[It's still early enough for Beckett to be mostly alert, only just now starting to sink into the lethargy that sunlight brings. He's still rattled, though, and his voice is subdued.]

What do you think - another personalised effect, like those Jade and I experienced?

text

[0thingsonmymind]

ithink so, yes
but whatdo you make of
e m p t y
areas
?

iam not sure if
time
or
space

text;

[bookofnope]

You know I trust you, Enoch. You, perhaps more than anyone else. But this is not about trust or suffering or right or wrong. If we take our eyes from the goal, if we stop, if we falter, we might not have the strength to start again. There's only so much time we have for grief.

text;

[warriorscribe]

But why do you still press for answers when we've both told you we remember nothing? What do you think we could be avoiding?

[bookofnope]

[It's a moment before he parses this. Time or space. Brian has a chillingly good point.]

I've spoken with another man here whom I'm fairly certain has had a vision of a moment from the town's past. But if the girl is experiencing a future... it would be a very, very long time before much of this town is reduced to an empty space, even under current conditions.

[bookofnope]

I

[Just the one letter, stark and lonesome on the screen. Well, Enoch deserves the full truth, in all its frank patheticness.]

Call it my version of hope, I suppose.

[0thingsonmymind]

iwas think ing past
far pa st

*Since "before the town was built" was probably a long time ago.*

but fu ture is justas
like ly



whatdid oth er man
see
?

[bookofnope]

[Beckett responds by linking his conversation with Kanan. Best way to preserve all the details.]

"One mostly neutralised impact", Robert Miller said. And here we are.

[0thingsonmymind]

but howwas
im pact
neu tra lis ed
?

or where camefrom

[bookofnope]

I have no idea, I'm afraid. Russia? It might explain Miller's hostility towards Winter. [He doesn't sound convinced, though.] And furthermore, if the impact was neutalised, what did happen to Norfinbury?

[0thingsonmymind]

may be after math of
im pact
made pla gue
?

*He doesn't know how nuclear stuff works but he's pretty sure its bad for your health.*

[warriorscribe]

["Oh, Beckett..." he murmurs aloud, safe from the vampire's knowledge.]

I'm sorry. I wish I had something to give you.

[bookofnope]

Radiation sickness...

[aka his second least favourite thing in the world after fungal pneumonia. It makes sense but doesn't. He was around for the nuclear scares of decades past. He remembers how they worked.]

Not in the town itself, no - or the impact could hardly be considered neutralised. But if there had been other impacts, if there had been war on a greater scale... still, a nuclear winter would explain the weather, the plague, not the structural damage.

[bookofnope]

You are not responsible for my peace of mind, Enoch.

If it relieves you to care for the child, then I'll leave them be. I understand the urge to protect them.

[Perhaps not sympathise, but understand. Enoch thrives on protecting. His friend has earned this much from him.]

[0thingsonmymind]

whynot the dam age
?

[bookofnope]

The destruction is simply too extensive to be the result of weather conditions. Even extreme weather over a long time. A hundred years aren't that much to a building. No... there was something else.

[0thingsonmymind]

weneed more infor mati on


a gain

night 174; @guardian; text;

[phaseshifter]

I'm back. And I was about to apologise for worrying you, but I think if I seriously said sorry for dying then you'd do that one face you do so intensely that it'd get stuck that way. :P

[ it's hard to keep these things casual without resorting to "sup brah, not dead"

the worst part of dying, tbh ]

text;

[bookofnope]

[Pardon him a moment, Angel. It might be a long moment. He needs to fall over and cry in relief for a while.

Yeah. Literally.]


Is there a reason why you always use text when I happen to be the most desperate to see your face?

[phaseshifter]

Yes. Those moments are usually the ones where it's hardest to steady my expressions so that I don't look like a frightened child. Duh.

[ HAHAHA LOOK AT THIS BANTER HAHAHAHaahaha fuck honesty fuck it in the ear.

Meaning she switches to video. Very dark video, but the tablet illuminates her well enough. ]

Sup.

[ And that sounds absurd enough coming from her that she's able to crack a smile. YES GOOD. ]

text -> video

[bookofnope]

[Oh yes. Hilarious banter. Not at all screwed up. Beckett tenses minutely, not quite grasping yet. Something is wrong, but then everything is wrong, so...]

I think we can all agree that being killed by an anomaly is objectively frightening.

[That is... sufficiently neutral? He isn't all focused on navigating the situation. His more immediately concern is drinking in the sight of her face. He switches his own video feed on and smiles back at her, tired and immensely relieved, looking every bit a man freed of a massive weight.]

Are you whole? Have all your senses? Can you get around on your own?

[phaseshifter]

I expect it was far more alarming for you guys than it was for me. I don't remember anything after the anomaly grabbing my ankle, so it - it could have been worse.

[ She winces slightly as he switches his video on, unable to completely keep her guilt from showing. She made him this vulnerable. Why isn't she more careful? ]

And, um - yes. To all of that. Oh! More whole than the last time you saw me, even!

[ It's hard to see her untattooed hand in the dark, but she holds it up anyway. Fingers all present and correct! SEE, EVERYTHING IS FINE. SUPER FINE. ]

[bookofnope]

[He can't help the faint flicker of shadow in his expression at it could have been worse, because he remembers last time, and it was, it really was.]

Let's agree that no one enjoyed that and leave it at that. [Gently, hoping to break in advance their established circle of fussing-while-not-quite-fussing over each other while denying that they could use any fuss over themselves. It seems like a good enough compromise. At least until he sees her in the flesh again and his ridiculous emotions would almost definitely get the better of him.

He duly brightens at the sight of her hand, though.] Oh look, a bright side. Sometimes I forget that we get those... is the fever any better?

[He isn't holding out hope, there, but probably it doesn't hurt to ask?]