8th Story ♬ [Accidental Video] - Keep your finger on the square button!

[ptrpan]

[Hey, look, it's Peter. And he's finally gotten his pixie dust back from Te'ijal, so look! He's flying!]

[...Oh, no, wait. He's clearly trying to fly, but there's a look of struggle on his face. He's moving forward, for sure, but slowly descending as he does so. Peter grunts and cycles his legs and flaps his arms, clearly trying (and failing) to

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[Action]

[androidhell]

You realize you should be evacuating, right? Unless you want to stay and fight.

Nevermind. Of course you want to.

[The door opens, and just inside the corridor is a small platform. There's a little device on it, with a nice tidy bow on top. It is a gift, after all!]

This device will let you in whenever you want. You don't even have to knock next time. If this is going to be your home, you shouldn't have to.

Feel free to explore. There's more surprises, but I don't want to spoil them for you just yet.

[Action]

[ptrpan]

[Peter runs inside, picking up the device and smiling]

So I can come and go as I please? That should be most convenient.

[He inspects the device closely, unsure exactly what it is or how it worked, but he'd figure that out later. For now, it was going into the pouch with the pixie dust.]

You say there's fighting out there? I saw none, only the sky change and someone get murdered.

[It was strange... he'd killed before. Murder didn't bother him, nor did blood or anything else. But something about what had happened to that woman by the man in green... he shook his head to get rid of that thought as quickly as possible. Like when one of the fairies dies.]

Do you know what's going on? What's happened?

[Action]

[androidhell]

[GLaDOS sighed. While she hated to admit it, she was as much in the dark as Peter was. And seeing a Deva killed so easily was jarring. Whatever they were facing, it was dangerous. And powerful.]

Nobody's decided to inform the rest of us exactly what it is that's trying to kill us all.