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[oneminutemaze]

[ This time, there are no nightmares and no screaming, no malfunctioning PORTAL broadcasting something to an unintended audience. Instead, it's just Ariadne giving everyone a slight smile from beneath her red mask, looking a bit sheepish. ]Hi everyone. I know it's been a few days, but I wanted to make sure everyone was doing all right after this

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[flensing]

I'm glad that you have recovered well.

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[oneminutemaze]

[ There's another, slightly wider smile for you, Anna. ] So am I.

Thank you again.

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[flensing]

[The smile is the best thank you she could have asked for. Although it does put a pang through her chest. She misses Lucie so much.]

But now you've lost your friend, it seems?

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[oneminutemaze]

[ Aww :c ]

Yeah... He came to check on me, but I haven't seen him since then. [ She wishes she could say that it's not like him not to send word, but the truth of the matter is that she doesn't actually know. ] Another friend of ours hasn't seen him either.

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[flensing]

I have heard that people disappear from the city, return home, but I can look for him, all the same.

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[oneminutemaze]

I hope not. [ Probably better for him to be home, really, but she's willing to let herself be selfish for the sake of security here. ] Thank you. I was thinking that he might have been recuperating or something, but it's been a few days...

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[flensing]

Promenade has proven herself to be unpredictable.

[Anna runs a hand back through her hair tiredly.]

And she was certainly not in her right mind.

[He might be trapped somewhere, who even knew.]

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[oneminutemaze]

Is there any word on what caused it yet?

[ She had avoided the network after her initial outburst, choosing instead to cocoon herself up in safety and refusing to leave Eames alone. ]

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[flensing]

There are fingers pointing, here and there, but I could not tell you the merits of one explanation over another.

[She frowns, frustrated by it.]

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[oneminutemaze]

[ And she sighs. ]

Even if they take someone in, who knows if it will be the actual person behind it... If it was a person at all.

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[flensing]

There is accountability, somewhere.

[But she does not understand this place well enough, not its magic, nor the city itself. She does not know, and she does fear they will find a scapegoat.]

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[oneminutemaze]

[ So does she, to be quite honest. ]

Either way, at least it's over.

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[flensing]

For now, but it didn't take long after the last incident either. I wonder if there is someone trying to scare us all into silence.

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[oneminutemaze]

Scare us into silence? How so?

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[flensing]

To make us so grateful for the reprieve that we do not protest. It seems to be working, there's less grumbling about our visiting presence amongst the locals already.

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[oneminutemaze]

[ Hmm. ] So... someone could have done this to... shut the locals up? Because they were grumbling after the whole monster thing, right?