[Bat is out of uniform, dressed in jeans and a dark red and black flannel shirt with his hair tied back, and sitting on the couch in the side room of Nectar.]

( FILTERED TO THE EMBRYON / JINANA / HARLEY )

//private call//

[Bat is sitting in a corner somewhere, glaring into the screen with dark bags beginning to form under his eyes. It's taken him a while to give in and do this.]

"....Gale."

( Private to Jaina )