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[truth_is_cold]

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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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[action]

[truth_is_cold]

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.

[action]

[femshep]

[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.

[action]

[truth_is_cold]

[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.]

[femshep]

[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.]

[truth_is_cold]

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.]

[femshep]

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.

[truth_is_cold]

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.

[femshep]

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.]

[truth_is_cold]

[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.

[femshep]

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.]

[truth_is_cold]

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