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[Rhade sounds a little distant when he speaks. Less forceful than usual, because he's having a What is the point? moment. His tone is a little cracked and weary, even.]

If anyone sees Kara Thrace, please inform her her that I liberated one of her bottles of alcohol from her new living establishment. If anyone sees Diziet Sma? -Well. You're not going to. She's back in her pod aboard the ship to last until the power gives out, anyway.

I would recommend if anyone who woke up in the ship has recently disappeared, you go and look for them there. It may be a sign of further malfunction.

[And he shuts off the feed.]

*OOC: Early before the windstorm on Wednesday, before the fire has started.

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Doesn't sound like any malfunction I've ever heard of. The pods re-sealing, that I could believe, but who put them back inside to start with?

[She's not asking for an answer--he's probably as confused by that as she is. She doesn't want to cry wolf, but this just screams 'inside agent' to her.]

I have confidence that Diziet Sma wouldn't have been taken by surprise if she could have helped it.

[He probably knew more about what she was than anyone else.]

That just means the enemy's that much stronger. Or smarter. Or-... [She shakes her head, not that he can see it.] Shit, and it's not like speculation will get us anywhere, either.

[Especially not on a public network.]

[He turns on the video feed finally, but it's not facing him. There's a slightly bobbing few of the row of pods as he's walking along with a surprisingly firm stride for being so inebriated. And then he points it up to a pod with Kirk in it and Kirk's name on it, sealed and closed.]

Like I said, you might want to have a look around.

[At sight of the name, she swears under her breath. When she speaks again, her voice is a little quieter.] It's like they know. [They're neatly picking off those she's decided she can trust, one by one, despite that she was for the most part very careful to keep it off the network.]

[He clicks off his feed.] I'm 13 rows down. If you can't find me, you'll know where to look.

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And don't let anything happen to my captain.

No. [It's firm. They're not losing anyone else. She refuses.]

Where are you? [They need to talk. Strategy-talk, talk that can't occur over the network.]

I'm at the ship. [Though his strategy is kind of wait for things and if things come punch them in the face at the moment.]

I didn't know. No one mentioned it, but that girl is here too. The one who could see into the future.

[She's on her way, not that it needs said. She and Rhade aren't particularly close, but in times like these, with a good five of their allies down already, it's no time for formalities. If he's punching things in the face, so is she. For now, at least.

At the latter part, her brow's knitting, not that he can see it. There's a pause.] See into the future-... [Thinking thinking thinking--] River? [Because her first few days here, she had boy!River clinging to her like a leech, but then he went missing and after a week or two's searching there really wasn't much to do about it. Somehow, she never thought to look back in his pod, but that makes sense, doesn't it?]

Yes, that was her name. [He'll be waiting by that particular pod when he gets there, but not looking at it.

He didn't know her that well, but she drives the situation home. She had a lot of people fighting for her. And there they were...]

[It doesn't take her long to find him, and while he may not be looking at the pod, Shepard is. After a greeting nod to Rhade, she eyes it for a second, almost like she's assessing quite what to think about it. About the situation at hand.

After a few seconds of silence:] So how many is this, now?

Kara, Diziet, Kirk, River--hell, both Rivers--Chell...

[She's looking to him now, because she's had a thought.]

The telepaths Kara was on about. The Xaviers. One of them-... [She can't exactly say he's outright missing, not until she's looked quite a bit more, but:] I can't find him. [Not that Rhade has any particular reason to care, on a personal level. She's more just taking stock of who is or isn't still around.]

Kara didn't come from the ship. She may have just left... [His voice is oddly distant. It wasn't as if she owed him anything.]

He's worth looking for. He's someone they might have wanted alive, considering his abilities. Alive and theirs, or shut down. But Diziet, they had no way of knowing what she was.

So she claims herself a flat, grabs a few roommates, then picks up and leaves? [She's not buying it. Though she grudgingly compromises:] It's a possibility.

[As for Charles:] I'm not writing him off yet, not by far. But I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's either in the dome or in one of these pods. [After the way he clung to her mental stability these last few weeks, he wouldn't have just... cut off contact and disappeared. Not voluntarily, anyway.

After a pause:] Anyone else?

Her roommate is gone, to my knowledge. She may be out looking for her craft, however. But not here.

[He shakes his head, but he's concerned about it.] Dylan is still here. But there was a young man I met when I arrived. He's gone now. And I've not heard anything from Ba'al. Neither of which I've been able to find here.

[Too many of them. Over half of the group she woke up with is gone now, and that's deeply disconcerting. But mentioning it would be stating the obvious, so she's moving on.

She did have a reason for coming, after all.]

Before the week's over, I'm putting some action behind that plan I ran by you and Hunt.

Just thought I should warn you.

[He hums a faint agreement. His heart isn't in conspiracy right now.]

You want to win. It's admirable.

[In his mind, though, he'd already lost. He'd failed in protecting his allies and left himself vulnerable. ~~He'd failed his friends and lovers and lost them.~~]

[She can tell, too. Too many years in command does that to you--she can always tell.

Shepard eyes him for a minute, inscrutable, then her head tilts just slightly.]

Didn't think you were so easy to break.

[Blunt, but she's never been the sort to beat around the bush.]

I didn't either. [Somewhat flatly, before he puts his hands behind his back and folds them together.]

My captain will at least be reliable. He'll take foolish risks but they're often productive. I'll do as he commands in regards to your plan.

[He's never been good at talking about anything wrong with him. Like a big oversized cat he'll sit on his pain and weaknesses and do his best not to expose them to anyone. He's been collecting a good number of them for the past month.]

Appreciated.

[And she could leave it there. Honestly, she really probably should. But instead, she's leaning against one of the nearby pods, gaze on the face of the pod across the way.]

Not that anything I've got to say should really matter to you, but it's too soon by far to be giving up on anything, let alone the whole damn fight.

[A glance to Rhade.]

It's more complicated than that. I know. It always is. Doesn't change what I said, though.

I've not given up on the fight, simply realized what role in it my superiority lies in.

[He paces in front of one of the open pods, his hands still tightly wrung behind his back, and very much still behaving like an oversized fussy cat.]

I was one of those that donated blood to help the young man that escaped from the dome. Since the mixture was successful, I'm aware that I might have some future as a bargaining tool, therefore I wouldn't be surprised if I weren't actually returned to a pod in the future.

However, we can't repeat the precise mixture, because Diziet was another of the donors.

So you think it's the Authorities putting people back, then?

[She's not going to comment on his bargaining tool status--she's altogether sick of being one, herself, but it's entirely his choice whether or not that's a status he'd like to retain.]

[He's willing to go for any advantage, with the added bonus that he's culturally inclined to let himself be objectified.]

Personally? No. Diziet was intensely private with her identity. She wouldn't have publicly stated it. Unless she sparked Narvin's curiosity- we were looking into his identity as a possible mole.

Any new intel? [She remembers that Narvin was a topic of discussion when she and Rhade and Hunt met up a few weeks back, but she never quite had the time to follow up on it.]

[He just shakes his head. He didn't have a chance to get in further contact with Dizzy.]

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