voice- un: brightness_kholin

[veristitalian]

People have been vanishing. Not many, not often, not at a volume where we've noticed quickly, but a small number of the ones who initially arrived here have simply disappeared. They've been vanishing since before the doors into space opened, and at enough of a rate that we'd notice the diminishing number of suits if they were all falling off the station into the black.

Initially I had assumed it must be because this place is dangerous. If that were the case we should be tripping over the corpses by now. We clearly aren't.

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[veristitalian]

If they come back.

[Says Jasnah, who always needs to say it out loud.]

We haven't met, I believe. I'm Jasnah Kholin.

[onlydoubts]

Yeah. If. If they return.

[ there's definitely a waver to his voice. ]

Hi, Jasnah. Bodhi Rook.

[veristitalian]

It's good to meet you, Bodhi.

[Unpleasant subject matter aside.]

This place isn't always simple, and it's seldom easy.

[onlydoubts]

And you, even under these circumstances.

[ Bodhi is getting used to that, meeting people in strange conversation or in situations that are less than great. ]

No, it's really not. [ he sighs, and tries to brighten a little. ] So, business as usual, then?

[veristitalian]

Business as usual.

[And, because it's worth asking over and over again.]

What have you learned about this place so far?

[onlydoubts]

[ he shrugs, and then remembers this is not a visual conversation. ]

Honestly, not much. Beyond what's seemingly been figured out by others. That people disappear, and something probably happened to the last ones that were here.

I wouldn't mind if they would just tell us what we need to know.

[veristitalian]

That's actually an interesting point.

[She says, because;]

They're trying to, and for some reason they cannot. Despite the raw power they've exhibited in other ways, something seemingly prevents them.

[onlydoubts]

Dunno... suppose it could have to do with whatever brought us here? It'd be my guess.

[veristitalian]

You're likely right. But what, then, might they want us for?

[If only it were a rhetorical question. Jasnah has absolutely less than no idea.]

[onlydoubts]

Maybe it's an accidental side effect, as well. Maybe this is all one big accident.

[ ... ]

But, honestly, I doubt that.

[veristitalian]

[She gives him a thin smile, and pinches the bridge of her nose.

He's not wrong.]

Be in touch if you learn anything new.

[onlydoubts]

[ he sighs ]

Yeah, you got it. Hopefully I'll have more than just guesswork, then.