.028 | Voice/Spam.

[paradoxlol]

You [GET SEDATED AND HOOKED TO A PASIV] go to sleep for two days, and suddenly everything's taken care of. Sorry I wasn't around to help. If anyone needs me, I'm heading to Level 0.

[Private to friends Acquaintances]
Tell me you're okay.

[SPAM FOR PERRY lol you get no say in this Jessi][And Arthur heads on down to Level 0, stopping in front of

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[cauchemal]

I'm fine.

[If you're paying attention, Arthur? You might notice that her room in the background looks just a bit different. As in, kind of French-provincial-cottage instead of California-crafstman-bungalow.]

Private - video

[paradoxlol]

Really good, or the usual "good"?

[ARTHUR IS ALWAYS PAYING ATTENTION. He tilts his head a little.]

When did you redecorate? [Pause.] I like it.

Private - video

[cauchemal]

I was not injured, and I stayed out of the way in the chaos so ... let us use that definition of "good".

[Leaving out: I am now scared of my warden and I spent a lot of my time brooding over how much I want to punch my stupid husband's face in. She glances over her shoulder and smiles a little, but there's no chasing the sadness from her eyes.]

Just ... recently. [i.e. post-latest-trip-to-the-infirmary-you-know-the-one] I thought ... it seemed better. More comfortable. It's my mother's home in France, where I grew up.

Private - video

[paradoxlol]

Fair enough. Do you understand what happened, how the people were... changed like that? [He's so afraid the pod people have triggered further inception issues.]

[Trying to offer a reassuring smile:] She's got good taste.

Private - video

[cauchemal]

I like to think I learned from her.

[Her expression sobers.]

It all seems like something out of a terrible movie. Mind control. [She shakes her head. She's very much trying to think about it too hard, especially about any parallels to her own situation, however tenuous.]

Private - video

[paradoxlol]

Yeah, very sci-fi. [Brief pause.] But it's over now. As I understand it... no lingering side effects.

Private - video

[cauchemal]

I'm glad of that, at least. Such a terrible thing to do to people, and to what end? [A little frown, and a hesitation, then:] My warden, Angelica Sexby. She was among the affected, I believe, and she seems much troubled by it.

Private - video

[paradoxlol]

I don't know. From what I hear, it was an escape attempt. [He frowns, too.] What's she been doing?

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[cauchemal]

It is perhaps more a matter of what she has not been doing. She has said nothing to me since everything was resolved and as far as I can tell, she's not even in her room.

Private - video

[paradoxlol]

Maybe she's with her husband? [He reaaaally doesn't like the idea of both Mal and her warden struggling with ideas that were planted in their heads.] You need anything? Even if it's just... talking.

Private - video

[cauchemal]

Perhaps. I don't know. I hope she'll be all right.

[She runs a hand through her hair, wearily.] I need to get out of my room. I've been hiding here and now that it's safe-I must get out, and not just to wander the corridors. Angelica has barred me from the deck, but perhaps if I were with you? If you have the time?

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[paradoxlol]

I've got time. Just need to work some things out with my inmate first, make sure he's doing okay after everything that's happened. [No details, just the basics. He doesn't know how much the inmates know about who was and wasn't affected.] Would you like to go to the CES? It's as close to fresh air as we can get around here.

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[cauchemal]

[Oh lord, the CES. Mal's been a little afraid of it ever since Four took her there, and she hasn't been back since. Still ... she doesn't want to betray that fact to Arthur, and maybe it's worth confronting it over again after all.]

All right. Let me know when you are ready.

Private - video

[paradoxlol]

I'll have to talk to Angelica first, but we can go once I've got the okay.