[Text | Private] Monday night, Week 55

[kazeninaru]

[A text comes through to those remaining people who Haruka knows were in the far future with her, at the end of all things. The list comes down to: Inara, McCoy, Tony (even if he's still dead, he gets a text), Neville, and Shepard.]

If you were under the influence of that mind control from the future, where you tried to kill people or did things you didn't understand or don't make sense now, I want to talk to you and maybe have the doctors at the hospital run some tests. It may be connected to the man from Bellona, or the murders going around, or both.

Reply to this. It should be encrypted, if that's still working on my cellular phone.

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[unofficial_ambassador]

I don't think that I did anything in that other time, but I was there for such a short time that I can't be certain. I talked to them at camp and I'm having those nightmares, so a test is probably a good idea.

[kazeninaru]

Good, we will test you, then. This is what I asked you to ask Solus-san about-- the neuroimaging equipment. Did he say they had any? If they do not, well, we will have to fix Salvation's first.

[unofficial_ambassador]

They have some, but they'll need a few days' notice before we can use it, and he isn't sure whether it will be strong enough to pick up traces this old.

[kazeninaru]

I will make up a schedule and bring it there, and let you know when they can fit us in. But if the dreams are part of it, that makes me think there is something there to test. How else could it still be making you have dreams after all this time?

[unofficial_ambassador]

I don't understand why they started so late. I only started dreaming after the last time I came back.

[kazeninaru]

I don't know, either. Maybe they have something to do with the murders, since those seem to have mind control involved, as well?

[It's just a guess.]

[unofficial_ambassador]

Neville's dreaming too. Is it just the two of us?

[kazeninaru]

You are the only two who have replied, so far.

[Which is a little disappointing. She'd hoped for more potential people to test.]

[unofficial_ambassador]

[Considering her stated dislike for Mordin, Haruka's an awful lot like him when she has potential experimental subjects.]

You can ask Doctor McCoy in person when you're at the hospital.

[kazeninaru]

[It's less the testing and more the result that Haruka's excited for: she wants proof that this is the same man, so she can start actually hunting him in earnest.]

I will. I will go and make appointments for us, so they know when we are all coming.

Thank you, Inara-san.

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[infourbooks]

I think I might have been.

[It wasn't as dramatic as the others. But it would explain a few things.]

[kazeninaru]

[Which is unfair to a kid his age. ... nevermind that Haruka technically isn't much older.]

Then we can test you. You think it is related with those nightmares, then?

[She saw his post, even if she couldn't really offer much to help.]

[infourbooks]

Inara mentioned it might be.

[kazeninaru]

That might mean he is still affecting you, or at least that there will be something residual that we can find, if it is still there in your dreams.

[She is positively perky about the idea. She wants proof, dammit.]

[infourbooks]

Something... in my head.

[He is less enthused]

[kazeninaru]

Hai. Yes. Something like that. The man who may have done this-- do you remember Ronan? That man who was in the ship when we arrived? He may be behind this, and he may have a mind control power that... overwrites neural structures. In your brain.

[It's what Salvation told her, anyway.]

It does not usually last this long, but if you are still having dreams after all this time, maybe there is something to see.

[infourbooks]

[Neville shudders]

Even doing that temporarily is considered unforgivable.

[kazeninaru]

I will not disagree with you there. So you will come, if I make an appointment for us?

[infourbooks]

Yeah. We... need to know.

[kazeninaru]

Good. I will let you know when I have a time. Thank you.

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[damn_it_jim]

Believe me, I already ran every test I could think of on myself. Nothing. Do you have something new I should be looking for, or is stirring up nightmares for fun and profit?

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[kazeninaru]

I only spoke with Salvation and she told me signs of the mind control could be found using neural imaging, if it had been within a certain time frame. It may be too late, now, but there are some who are still having dreams, so I think there may be something residual left.

[Maybe. If she's lucky. It sounds like she might not be being lucky, unless somehow the mind control made it impossible for McCoy to spot the damage himself.]

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[damn_it_jim]

Well, that's a hell of a thing.

Bring me all the data you've got, but keep it off the network.

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[kazeninaru]

This is off the network, or it should be. It is encrypted anyway, Stark-san did that a while back. I will come talk to you, and we can decide what to do and when, then? I need appointments for at least two other people to use the machines.

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[damn_it_jim]

Sure, it's private, but it's still being sent on these devices. I trust Stark's encryption skills, but he's still only human.

And sure, send them to me. If they're any of the spells and sorcery crowd, I actually have someone who calls himself a mage and a healer hovering around underfoot and prickly, so that might make them relax a bit if they want him in on things.

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[kazeninaru]

Maybe. I will come by your hospital, then, when you are working next and I am not.

[She's half-expecting to hear that he's working now. That's just the way he is.]

Also, Salvation told me where her medical facilities are. We should fix them, once they have life support.

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[damn_it_jim]

[Got it in one. The best way to dodge bad dreams is to minimize the amount of time you're lying there vulnerable to them, right?]

One thing at a time... although having some advanced medical technology would be a rare treat. If she doesn't have systems that would make the Enterprise look primitive, I'll eat my hat.

Come by the hospital in an hour or so. I should have been thrown out by then.

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[kazeninaru]

Been thrown out? Are they getting tired of you already, then?

[Haruka rolls her eyes a little, on the other end, but it's with a little grin. And she'll show up right on time, maybe a little early, in case the muns would like to go to action.]