un: keith || video followed by voice

[fighterpaladin]

... What the Hell?

[Keith’s image comes on screen before it disappears once he realizes the device on his arm also has a video feed. Instead, he makes sure the thing transmits only his voice which sounds anything but happy right now.]

What--... What is this? What happened? [This time.] Is anyone getting this?...

[Two seconds.]

Guys...?

[A second and a half.]

C’mon! Lance? Pidge?...

[A second.]

Hunk? Princess?

[Half a second.]

Come in!

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[fighterpaladin]

[... Well. That's alarming.]

And you haven't been able to find out the source of all those things?

[Because that seems far too specific to be random, doesn't it? More importantly though--] Why have some of you been spared, then? [Since, clearly, to him, if you have those terrible things happening to you, you won't be surviving it, and he has been talking to a lot of people who, well, are not dead. Since dead people don't talk. Right?]

And how often do people appear and disappear?

[reposing]

Not precisely, no. I've been able to conclude that at times the replicators will be affected and the chemical compound in the food can cause reactions at times, but it did not explain the illness. I was able to diagnose, but little else.

Very few of us have been spared. I am not completely human, so I am able to survive things most could not.

Mm. Too often, I'm afraid. Perhaps a dozen a month?

[fighterpaladin]

... Replicators? [... What's he talking about? And why doesn't Keith like the sound of it at all? It brings back... very uncomfortable memories, even if it has nothing to do with that at all.] And you're saying the food here gets you sick? [Great.

The rest doesn't make it better, either.] How many have died?

[... And that does sound like a lot. Way too much.]

[reposing]

The replicators create food based on your dietary needs. We have improved them, but they are still a bit unreliable. There isn't much else we can do in regard to that matter for now.

...Two, that I know of. I suppose it's worth noting that death doesn't always seem to be a permanent feature here. People will return to life, for better or for worse. How, I do not know. But people will disappear, and I do not know if that constitutes as death or not yet.