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[a_shadow]

who do I need to threaten to find out the truth about this place

'gods'? you expect me to believe that shit?

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[a_shadow]

Mm. You did a pretty good job becoming invisible after that, then.

[ Tex was looking for her, and she knows York was too. And he had Delta to help him. ]

[uptightness]

[She had been number one, until Tex had come around. People thought she was dead, for a while, she thought she might end up there anyway. She'd left no trace though.]

I didn't want to be found.

[Not for a long time. For a variety of reasons. Everything had been so confusing, so muddled. So much anger and too much hurt.]

[a_shadow]

Understandable.

I should have tried harder to explain what was going on, or something. Maybe it would have made a difference.

[uptightness]

I wouldn't have listened.

[Not to her- especially not to her.

Hadn't to York, when he had tried.]

[a_shadow]

I suppose not.

Do you know, now? What was going on?

[uptightness]

[A breath exhaled.

How she'd missed it- but she knows exactly how she had. She'd been too caught up, too driven, too obsessed...]

Project Freelancer is done. The Director is done.

[a_shadow]

[ Tex's sigh matches Carolina's. ]

All of it?

[uptightness]

There's still some messes we're cleaning up.

[Events that keep popping up... Tech. She might spend the rest of her life trying to fix it all.

It's the least she can do, and it's not like it's going to wash away her sins.]

[a_shadow]

There were a lot of messes made.

I wasn't trying to get at the root of it, I was just trying to—

[ She makes an inarticulate sound, interrupting herself. ]

Well... Doesn't really matter.

[uptightness]

I know.

[She might not know it all. Might never come close to all the secrets. But, she does know more than she had then. About the Project, about what the Director had been doing. The horrors that had been undertaken.]