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[A few weeks ago, Kerra had just felt like she needed a break, to get away from all of it. And maybe see if Wanda's idea about the pods was true, so, she'd just gone back, and now she was just waking up.

A cursory scan of the network reveals nothing, but she knows that's not true. Something feels off, here.]

Guh...so...okay. Hey. It's Kerra, and I'm back.

[She looks tired, kinda grouchy, and thankfully clothed.]

Anyone mind catching me up to speed on what's going on? Took a little time in the pods. Needed to clear my head, and it feels like I've been gone a while.

Hit me, either here, or I guess at home. Maybe the bar.

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Were you dying?

Last time I checked, no.

Edited 2013-12-02 17:42 (UTC)

So you locked yourself in an alien intensive care unit for kicks.

Yeah. Sure. We'll go with that. I wasn't well, but I wasn't dying. Call that for kicks.

[She's not going to talk about some of this stuff. A conversation or two had gone badly, and...well...it had left her feeling pretty krifftastic.]

I just...couldn't deal. Felt sick all the time, figured I'd feel better after.

You people do get that maybe one in every twenty people who goes back into those things actually ever comes out again, right? Not accounting for the thousands who've never actually woken up in the first place.

[Don't mind him, he's just dealing with the fact that the last person who was deliberately put back into the pods might possibly have been handed a death sentence.

It's been a totally awesome two weeks, okay.]

[Kerra sighs heavily and tries to keep a snarl out of her voice.]

Stark. I do. And you know what? At the time I didn't kriffing care. I came out. I feel moderately less frakked up, but you know what? You're starting to give me one of those headaches that just won't go away, so can we just...not talk about this? It's good to know you're concerned about me, but I don't really wanna talk on any network about depression, kay?

...Moving on.

If your little adventure in Wonderland knocked your powers out, it wasn't us. Salvation woke up cranky.

I feel alright. But I'm not on the ship anymore. That...was kinda weird and I'm not really happy being force-blinded.

Was it just another malfunction?

Edited 2013-12-03 15:46 (UTC)

It wasn't a critical system failure. We're still digging through the security system to figure out if it's something that switched on automatically now that the power reservoirs can sustain it.

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Welcome back.

I'm afraid that I have to tell you that there's very much you missed...

What happened Mulan?

[This...is probably bad. She has a bad feeling about this, anyway.]

The most pressing was probably the recent attack on the market.

There were two creatures that invaded. They came out of nowhere, and destroyed many things. Anyone injured by them eventually died.

[Kerra's eyes widen in surprise.]

What sort of creatures? And how many dead?

and...anyone we know?

[She replies to the most pressing part first.]

Anyone from the ship was able to come back. Within a matter of days.

[Her voice tightens. She knows this trick.]

You're trying to soften a blow. What the kriff happened?

Over the past few weeks there have been...strange happenings, out in the wilds. Dying plant life. Animals killed in unusual ways. Then there were these two monsters that came into the marketplace, and attacked everyone. They were huge, and vicious, and looked like they were made entirely out of bone.

More than two dozen people died right there. And anyone who had been cut or scratched by the creatures...their flesh slowly hardened, like it was turning into rock, until they too died. I think last I heard well over a hundred were among the fallen.

...I didn't see it happen, but. Wanda was hurt during the fighting. I don't think she even made it to the hospital.

[Kerra remains silent for a long, quiet moment, listening to this. The end of it, though. Wanda. Hurt? Dead? While she was...

No.

No that...that was...

The young woman's face twists in pain, rage filling her eyes. Wanda couldn't be dead. A rumbling sound fills the air, bits of metal and stone and spare parts shaking and lifting all around Kerra as her anger gets the better of her. The Dark Side, that constant, faint, niggling little voice in the back of her head calls out to her. A parting shot from Odion, that little whisper of doubt had been easy enough to shut away but this brought it all to the forefront.

Dead? She should have been there. She could've done something. But she'd been too selfish and gone off to do something idiotic.]

Didn't make it?! She's dead?!

Edited (fixed wording, and some typos.) 2013-12-03 22:27 (UTC)