002✖; (voice)

[circumitus]

"Good news is, it would seem it's true, in that it's possible to return home. The bad news is that it's also possible to be bounced back here like it never happened. Lost -- or gained, depending on how you look at it -- about three weeks of time. Some shit, is what it was."

[Rey wants her money back.

[Also she sounds like hell, and the only reason she isn't resorting to text is because she can't keep her hands still long enough to manage the letters. Her voice, similarly, is strained and shaky, but that's why she isn't using the video function. Her face looks much worse.]

"Secondly, it appears that the dam is active. We now have hydroelectricity to help power the city. That's one less thing for Hope to bitch about, so don't break it.

"It's still going to need upkeep from time to time, though. Going to handle that personally, but am going to need some help with that right now." [Pause.] "Please."

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voice;

[closerift]

They say they didn't bring us through, which means someone, or something, else did. That someone has a plan. Else, they've been lying, and they have some intention in mind, too, if only to draw energy from us.

[ It isn't a complicated plan, if that's the way of it, but if they don't have another way to keep themselves alive? Then, it makes sense. ]

voice;

[circumitus]

It isn't that difficult to believe that they'd be lying to us. They benefit more having us here than to send us home.

voice;

[closerift]

I agree. [ Delight said that Fear activated the Door, but that's all that they have by way of facts, if it's even true. ] The more of them are revived, the more we're at a disadvantage. Time is not on our side, as it were.

voice;

[circumitus]

No, it isn't. And it looks like Hope is going to keep bringing more back whether we vote for which one or not.

voice;

[closerift]

Then--

[ But she doesn't voice whatever is on her mind; she's learned and heard it said a few times now that it isn't safe to speak openly on the network. Even though that's what she and Rey had been doing already, the Inquisitor figures it'd be better not to upset the state of things any further.

So, instead, she says: ]

Congratulations on your work with the dam. I think it was something sorely needed.