[voice]

[radars]

These collars, from the ... Outer Authorities, is it?

What is their function, exactly? Does anyone know how they're made?

Or. How they can be removed?

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[calmyourmind]

Outer Authorities?

[radars]

An attack, just a few days ago.

[calmyourmind]

And they placed collars on the people they attacked? Does anyone know why they were attacking?

[radars]

It always comes down to fear.

[calmyourmind]

Then I take it they were not the ones to bring us here, either?

[radars]

No. No, I don't think they would have brought us here at all, under their own volition.

[calmyourmind]

Well, someone must have brought us here with a purpose. Surely this kind of effort would have to have a rather prominent force behind it.

[If he had not felt him die, he would almost believe it to be Shaw. If not him, then who? Who would have the knowledge and the desire to do this? He still wasn't sure he could trust anything the other man was saying, to begin with.]

Has anyone tried to contact either side?

[There were always sides.

[radars]

We are one of the sides.

[ As much as Charles would like to detach, to become a negotiator and nothing else -- being collared had made him an enemy of those people. ]

[calmyourmind]

[Charles goes silent for a moment, just watching the phone, before leaning back with a short, quiet sigh.]

Do we have any idea what it is they want?

[radars]

No. No, there's something in them that blocks...

[ Telepathy. He's not saying it on an open channel. ]

Probably dominance.

[calmyourmind]

That would pose a bit of a problem. I take it they were not willing to just have a friendly chat, then.

[radars]

Let's say I have experience getting unwilling participants to the negotiating table.