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[lingeringfear]

[There's something distinctly different about Fear when he turns the video on this time. He seems even less human than normal, not breathing, not blinking, as if he's forgotten how to manipulate his form so that it actually appears lifelike.

He manages to move his mouth as he speaks, but the motion doesn't quite sync up with the words echoed in through the mic.]

...so I've finally failed.

[His eyes are unfocused, but he looks downward, contemplative.]

I only got half the city out. It won't be enough- we can't start over, not without Hope. So it ends here, I suppose.

[He takes in his first breath since beginning the recording, letting it out in a long sigh.]

I'm sorry.

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[video]

[thirdreturned]

Everyone in the group left behind- ah, you probably don't know which that is.

[He frowns.]

Everyone with Hope, Fear, Delight, and Sorrow. That would be the West half of the city.

[video]

[whip_poor_will]

Ah, I see. That's a day ruiner.

[Understatement of understatements. Not that she's showing much concern at the moment.]

Well, good luck!

[video]

[thirdreturned]

Without Fear and Hope, the Eastern half of the city won't last much longer.

[Just in case that wasn't implied.]

[video]

[whip_poor_will]

Yes, I gathered that may be the case. Don't mistake my composure for indifference to your dilemma. I'm just sure you'll all have it worked it out before everyone is met with a terrible demise.

Not like anyone will be alive long enough to care if things swing towards the "otherwise".

[video]

[thirdreturned]

That's a generous assumption on your part.

But also true. If we're to inevitably die, there's no point in panicking over it.

[video]

[whip_poor_will]

Precisely.

In any case, I'm already dead, so I don't know what more can be done about that. Make me more dead? Deader?

[Insert a short, odd laugh here.]

[video]

[thirdreturned]

A destruction of your physical form. Even if you don't occupy one, there is still a sense of you present in a given location, is there not?

That can be destroyed. They can find a way to do it.

[video]

[whip_poor_will]

There is. I am well aware of the possibility of being reduced to nothing -- I simply don't let the prospect trouble me that much.

It's a good thing I'm not stuck on the side with Fear, if that's what he needs to fix this. [Ravine doesn't scare easily.]

[video]

[thirdreturned]

I suppose it is.

Would you be willing to help others survive on this side? It's going to be difficult without Hope.

[video]

[whip_poor_will]

I'll be honest, I doubt that there's much that I can do against most of the things we're facing here.

...But I don't eat or sleep, or I suppose I'm not about to be a drain on limited resources, if nothing else.

[video]

[thirdreturned]

Every piece makes the puzzle, I suppose.

[Even if it's not super helpful.]

Good luck.

[video]

[whip_poor_will]

Something like that.

[The smallest and seemingly most insignificant thing can be significant in its own right.]

I won't be the one needing it, but thanks all the same.