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[excessivehubris]

[Someone’s cell phone, device feed, whatever turns on, upside down and turned outwards so its hard to tell who’s contacting the network. Instead, it shows a feed of the inside of the Abax Central Station and the sound of rapidly approaching trains can be heard

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[Audio]

[missedtwoyears]

[So many questions Shepard could ask. So, so many. So she'll start with the catch-all.]

What do you mean, the trains don't feel like us? [It's a little bit sharp, though not really hostile.]

[Audio]

[excessivehubris]

[He gives the device a quick, wry look.]

Not the trains. I've not gone that far around the bend, [yet].

A ... sort of presence. Its hard to describe, hard to get a hold on but it doesn't feel like anyone from the hospital.

The trains ... the sensations just get stronger when the trains come.

[Audio]

[missedtwoyears]

So there's something on them.

[Left unsaid: or yeah, you really have gone that far around the bend.]

You said it's hard to describe. Can you try?

[Audio]

[excessivehubris]

Possibly, I honestly can't tell.

[The one brief attempt he'd made at it had sent him scurrying back to his own mind with his tail between his legs.

At her question, he gives his head a shake.]

Its mostly sensations. Like someone walking repeatedly over your grave and a ... [his words drifted off because he didn't want to further the opinion that he'd lost his mind.]

[Audio]

[missedtwoyears]

[She wants her ship and her damned omni-tool so badly right now, you would not believe it. They are, for the current moment, more missed even than her gun.]

And a what?

[Audio]

[excessivehubris]

[He'd really like his sister! And perhaps a watch that worked.]

Just a disquiet, like waiting for something to jump out at you.

[In truth, it reminded him of when he was a child and would run across his bedroom and jump on his bed, certain that he had to be on his mattress or the monsters would snatch him from beneath his bed. He'd always been able to feel the crawly tickle of their claws on his skin, though of course, monsters don't exist.]

[Audio]

[missedtwoyears]

[She has too much control to do anything as obvious as breathe a sigh of relief, but some undefinable note of tension slips from her tone.]

I don't think there's anything about a place in which the hostages wake up in a morgue that's not disquieting.

[Audio]

[excessivehubris]

A morgue freezer, to be exact and it was incredibly distressing, yes.

[Audio]

[missedtwoyears]

You have my sympathies.

[No, really. It's genuine, if brisk.]

[Audio]

[excessivehubris]

[He gives a polite duck of his head, acknowledgment of the sentiment but not dwelling upon it.]