hadriel | 004 [Text]

[Hopefully everyone has recovered from their hangovers and energy drink comas by now, but if not he's using text to be courteous. Also because it's really late, and because this message works better in text anyway.]

So this isn't exactly a huge important development or whatever, but if your usual texting back home involved emojis I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know that you can send them here now, too.

[There's a link to install a small program on the phones, which enables a smiling face, a scowling face, and a hand giving the finger.]

Options are kind of limited to happy, unhappy, and pissed off, but never fear. Any additional emoji requests can be submitted to Emily, who I'm sure will totally love fulfilling them for you since she's the master artist here; I just do the scripting. Definitely request as many inane emojis as you could possibly want. Make sure to ask her every time you talk to her if they're done yet, too.

[Sorry Emily. Harmless revenge is sweet.]

So yeah. Have fun.

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You did the right thing, making sure she couldn't get out and hurt anyone.

[ That would explain why Kaz had never heard the word before, but that seems a little less important than what they're discussing now. ]

[There's a longer delay this time, because he's not sure what to say. He's well aware that Emily can read this, which won't matter too much if he decides to brush off the comment, but if he tells the truth...

He really doesn't want to talk about this at all, but he also doesn't want to lie to someone who's been helping with figuring things out here.

So after a few minutes of nothing, he switches the connection over to private.]

I'd say thanks, if that was what I actually did.

Kind of fucked up that plan halfway through the whole thing.

Edited 2016-04-09 23:26 (UTC)

[ It looks like Miller just stumbled upon something. Then again, that's part of the reason why he bothers with interactions like these. Sometimes it leads to information, and while this is veering toward something much more personal, he'll see how far he can get with it.

Still, he can't say he's entirely surprised. If someone isn't trained to deal with a high-stakes situation like that, a lot of the time emotion will get in the way.

Not that he's in any position to make any remarks about controlling one's emotions. ]

She got out?

Yeah. Fully transformed wendigos aren't exactly stopped by wooden doors.

[The situation at their house had been a mess; with Sam disappearing part of the way through the event, that left only Chris and Mike with experience in handling wendigos. Ashley was from too early on in the night back home to have encountered one yet, and both Emily and Josh had been transforming.

Combined with Hope's promise of a cure, there had been a lot of risk-taking and some of it had gotten out of hand. It isn't exactly Chris' fault Emily got out, though he'd been directly responsible for Josh doing so. The chance to cure a transformed friend instead of having to kill them, as had been necessary at home, was too great not to try.

And of course, that hope had meant they had also decided against killing the wendigos before they had completely transformed.]

[ Well, that probably shouldn't come as a shocker. Wooden doors wouldn't stop a Skull, either.

It's possible that Chris' friend ended up hurting or even killing people after she got out, but since Hope makes a habit of bringing people back from the dead, it's hard to know for sure. And Kaz doesn't know if he should push this any further into uncomfortable territory.

He can ask a less direct question, though. ] Were you able to cure her? [ Emily's responding to his messages too, after all. It must have worked itself out somehow. ]

[The whole topic is definitely uncomfortable but it's okay to talk about it, at least as long as it stays in the realm of facts.]

We tried, we just couldn't get her to the Temple.

[It had been too difficult. Emily had tried--more than tried; she'd been incredible--controlling the wendigo urges, but it was just asking too much of her for her to do so the entire distance they needed to travel. That she managed to resist killing Chris had been a miracle on its own.]

[ Miller feels like he's got to wring every additional detail out of Chris about what happened. A decent person probably would have eased up, but Kaz's desire to know about what goes on around the city outweighs any sense of propriety. ]

And did she attack the rest of you?

[ If Chris died in the process, then Kaz is going to have to ask him about the revival, so that he can compare it to what Big Boss went through. ]

[So far the questions aren't that out of the ordinary, at least not enough that he thinks much about Kaz asking. That doesn't mean he's interested in giving many details, though, so his answer is short.]

Not really. No one got seriously hurt.

[They could've been, easily, but aside from a few bruises from the partially-transformed Emily knocking him down no one had really been hurt at all.]

Not our first go-around with wendigos anyway so we kind of had an advantage.

[They'd known exactly what to do, and even if being able to actually do it isn't exactly as simple they'd at least had better chances. That might be why there had been no casualties among anyone from their house aside from the wendigos themselves.]

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