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[ifightfor]

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infirmary filter- he is apparently the only guy I want to play tonight.

[iam_aghost]

What's happened? I'm on my way, but any information you can give is useful.

infirmary filter

[ifightfor]

[An image of a very dead Luke Cage is sent along.]

Warden Toshiko Sato also severely injured.

Re: infirmary filter

[iam_aghost]

Right. Someone will be with you very soon.

Is Ms. Sato conscious?

infirmary filter

[ifightfor]

Understood.

Yes.

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[hopeless_hacker]

[Not that she was aware, but it had been almost two hours since she had killed Luke. That she had spent most of that time unconscious was hard for her to believe when she wasn't - everything hurt. She had literally been in less pain when a warehouse had fallen on her, because at least the warehouse hadn't been angry and in pain and actively trying to hurt her.

It was possible she was also slightly delirious. The ceiling over her head seemed to have resolved itself back into the plain white of her non-evil cabin but that could have been wishful thinking.

She heard her visitor come in before she saw him - and she heard Rinzler's low-key growl before she had the opportunity to start panicking. Thank God, thank God, even if she'd known where her communicator was she wouldn't have been able to get to it.]

Rinzler...is it over...?

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[ifightfor]

[He was at her side immediately, hunkering down beside her to assess her condition. She wasn't a Program and he was still a poor judge of User injuries, but none of this looked good.

At least he'd found her and she was still alive.]

Yes.

Help--soon.

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[hopeless_hacker]

Thank you. [She just stared at the ceiling for a few moments, breathing shallowly. This would probably take longer to get over than the Death Toll; the idea of a 'hard reset' had crossed her mind but she couldn't face the dark again, not of her own volition, she wouldn't.]

I'm sorry I - sorry I tampered with your Disc.

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[ifightfor]

[It's a measure of how disruptive the entire flood had been that it hadn't even occurred to him to dwell on that. Or question that it had happened, until she brought it up herself. He stared at her silently for several long seconds, as if unable to properly comprehend the words she'd said, then made a low clicking noise that had no proper analogue in human discourse. It wasn't the sound he made in place of laughter.]

Fixed. No harm. Done.

[Another long silence.]

Forgiven.

[feels_no_love]

Conflicted. That man was similar to me in many ways but not. I am having trouble...differentiating in some ways.

Do you have need of assistance? I must--that is to say--I am available.

[He needs to keep busy right now.]

[ifightfor]

No assistance required at present.

Will advise if situation changes.

[He understands. Sorry, Drac. :c]

Private - audio

[no_fastolfe]

[Vasilia's voice is shaking]

It is hard to separate myself from what I remember, to sort memories into timelines. She was fundamentally different. Naive. Foolish. Yet in some ways we were the same.

I remember pain, such pain-- yours, mine, all of us. She endured and I do not understand why.

I would repair you too. I would never allow-- I would repair you too.

I am sorry. It is difficult to focus. I am physically unharmed. Are you. So many people are injured. Are you well?

Private - text

[ifightfor]

[There's a long delay; Rinzler has to digest all of this before he can even try and put out something comprehensible in reply.]

They were friends.

[It's a factual conclusion. And:]

Thank you.

JA307020 is unharmed. Query: Your status?

[It's hard to keep to his usual forms when there's that shadow of the other Rinzler still lurking around.]

Private - audio

[no_fastolfe]

Yes. They were friends. She knew many more people on the barge than I do, but you were-- the closest.

[She clears her throat and refocuses:]
Status: some mental distress. Not a priority.

[She realizes what she's said. That was the other one's view; her playful game logic, her non-self referential prioritization and self sacrifice]

I-- I would like to see you but I understand that it is not feasible. Perhaps we can have lunch again when things are clean again.

Private - text

[ifightfor]

[It's probably a measure of how much Rinzler is still "affected" that he doesn't exactly notice the slip. Worst not-a-flood ever.]

Yes. Designate a time.

[He'll do what he needs to do to be there.]

[mrs_persson]

It's happened before. A year and a half ago. I had rather hoped it wouldn't happen again.

[Private]
Is Toshiko all right?

[ifightfor]

[...Any possibility of recurrence is too soon. Still, it is what it is.]

Understood.

[private]
Warden Toshiko Sato is injured but in Infirmary care now.

Private

[mrs_persson]

Damn. All right, thank you.