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...It can’t be…
...a nightmare…failed...
...couldn’t have… died…

[He’s muttering to himself, so only a few stray words are clear enough to be heard, at first. He hadn't intended those to be heard, necessarily, as he's checking that the phone is even on. Then, he clears his throat and speaks normally.]

Kain Highwind of the Guard reporting in. What is the current situation with the demons? I can… [He pauses, more mentally disoriented than anything. The reality of the situation is still sinking in, the memories of being possessed are… deeply unsettling. Not again. He can’t believe he’s lost himself again.] I can go anywhere I’m needed to continue our fight.

[Sigh. Well, there it is. He's in a bit of denial over what happened, but he knows deep down the truth of the matter. He'd been possessed, and... killed. Shadow, that hedgehog had ended his suffering. For now, he’ll throw himself into fighting, a warrior above all else. Mental distress will just have to get shoved deep down inside. But there is… something else bothering him. He belongs to the air, to the wind. He wants to feel that breeze on his face, to see the sky change in color. He’ll even take overcast if he could just see clouds again. The withdrawal is real.]

This is unrelated, but… How can everyone withstand a place without a sky for so long, anyway? Does anyone know if there's some way to see it again, even for a few moments?

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[He don't confirm or deny it. Sure, he's adjusted. He's spent most of his life adjustin' to something or another. No point in refutin' or confirmin' it either which way.]

Well, just puttin' it out there. You got options, if you end up missin' whatever it is you're missin'.

[Does he even really miss it that much? It's... really hard for him to say. Kain would probably have to spend a while thinking it over to decide.]

Options are always worth having. I'm not sure if some of them are even things I'd want to remember... but I'll keep it in mind, anyway.

[Heh. Yeah. It's like he said to a certain someone not so long ago, huh? It's the nature of a psychic injury to have no insight into itself. Maybe you just can't miss what you don't have a conceputalization of - you don't know what's worth missin'.]

Well, y'never know. Lots of things are possible here in Hadriel. I'm guessin' it's part of the city's charm.

[Kain is definitely wary of regaining long lost war memories. Though it's still... worth knowing that something could be done, if he needed it.]

I have yet to see any charm to this place, so I'll have to take your word for it. What else is possible, anyway? I've seen dragons and demons so far...

Zombies, once. That was a fun time.

[He's certainly smilin' enough to hint as such, even if it really weren't much of a good time at all.]

But hey, sometimes you get some nice stuff. The whole place was full of rainbows and lollipops for a few days.

Zombies are a nuisance... I'm not sure I'd ever be able to consider them fun...

[He stares with uncertainty about the other thing. It's true, he'd at least received some items from home, which was... mostly good.]

Are you serious? That would have been... different. Colorful. Not terrible, though, I suppose.

Got kinda loud after a while, but a guy like me learns pretty quick how to sleep through anything.

[Not the sharpest when it comes to sarcasm, is he? Or maybe he's just bein' ironic? It's kinda hard to say.]

I could imagine... I could see that you have to get used to a lot of disruptions very quickly in a place like this.

[Nah, he usually gets it ~~but this mun is dense at 3 am sorry~~ so chalk it up to him just not knowing WHAT THE HELL to expect, seriously, it's disorienting and weird and he's willing to believe anything is possible.]

Pretty much, yeah. Just gotta kinda roll with the punches, y'know?

[Or make it so every single punch misses. Either one.]

I'd imagine so. it's not as if we have much choice, after all. So much of what happens here is out of our control.

[Which is very frustrating to Kain, he doesn't like being in that sort of situation. But they can only deal with it and adapt.]

More or less. All we can do is nudge things in the right direction.

[So he's pretty clear on that little fact. Not that it's a real warping of perspective. He's never had control of much of anything, much less himself, and it's just another way to watch the same scenario play out.]

That's not ideal... but it's far better than doing nothing and accepting our fate.

[Even if he has no control over a situation, Kain will do what he can, and will fight if and when he must.]

Heh. Guess it would be, yeah.

[Not that Sans has any experience doin' that or anything. Ever.]

Anyway. Good luck to ya, pal.

Thank you... and good luck to you, as well. We all need it in here.

You said it.

[Not that Sans is a big ol' proponent of puttin' your faith in luck. Look where that's gotten him, after all. Still, he ain't gonna keep Kain any longer. He lets those words serve as an adequate goodbye and cuts the feed there.]

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