056. Lures

[electroniccrane]

[text]

When someone is telling you exactly what you want to hear, there's a catch, especially when they insist there isn't one.

[Hmm. She may have to spell this out for the slow kids.]

The mirrors may not be lying, but they're not being honest, either.

[She had a conversation with one and agreed to nothing because she's so paranoid she'd check

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[teethofneedles]

Don't let people get their hooks in you. They make you think you want it all and turn you into a prisoner in your own mind.

Fuckin' hate that shit.

[electroniccrane]

[This is some weird zombie thing, isn't it?]

The very best con men let their victims trick themselves.

[Bawww, she misses Ace.]

[teethofneedles]

[Yes. Yes it is.]

Yeah. Something like that.

[electroniccrane]

Talked with any mirrors lately?

[embattled_angel]

Isn't that the truth.

[She may or may not be speaking from experience.]

[electroniccrane]

I learned my lesson on that one a while ago.

[embattled_angel]

I'm still learning it.

[electroniccrane]

In that case, don't talk to any mirrors for a while.

[Text]

[ntjstapwn]

If anyone out there is still willing to make a deal with the mirrors, they won't listen to you. I doubt they'd listen to anyone.

[audio]

[electroniccrane]

[She knows Marco speaks English, so she switches to that.]

You have a higher opinion of people's sense of self-preservation than I do.

[audio]

[ntjstapwn]

*Oh, why'd you have to switch to audio. Marco was trying to avoid audio. Still, he switches over to match, he just sounds like he's sick or exhausted or something similar*

Maybe. Right now I'm tempted to just give up on them, though.

[electroniccrane]

[He could have continued using text and she wouldn't have cared.]

Mm. The mirrors make a good pitch, is the problem.

[She'd have fallen for it if she weren't a professional paranoid.]

[after...said detox]//text

[chopshopgoddess]

A ticket home.

[text]

[electroniccrane]

[Well, if Mikaela's not going to lock, fine.]

Did it provide any details?

[text]

[chopshopgoddess]

[She doesn't really care at this point - after screaming all over the network to, well, EVERYONE, she's not trying to keep many secrets.]

It knew my name, and my boyfriend's name from back home. It asked me to renounce the Captain.

[text]

[electroniccrane]

Did it tell you why it was able and willing to take you home?

[conquistasal]

[Sal's voice sounds weak. He's recovering from massive injuries, but he's not rude. He'll respond.]

Mirror asked if I wanted t'go home. I said yeah.

[electroniccrane]

Anything further? Did it offer any details?

[Sal, please don't tell her you agreed to what the shadowy image in the mirror offered without pressing for more information.]

[conquistasal]

[Sal might be one of the more colorful crayons in the box, but he's not the sharpest.]

Uh... I asked if it could take Herz an'... an'd Mikaela... them, too. Folks I care about... Said it'd come back fer them, only could take one've us at a time. Then it had me, uh, renounce the captain? I dunno...

[He's so stressed and tired.]

Half her conversations turn into interrogations *sob*

[electroniccrane]

[She cares about how Sal's feeling only insofar as he might hang up if she pushes too hard.]

Did it tell you why it was going to take you home?