SOS?

[dalectable]

I... have never Investigated before, so this is a bit bizarre but... is anyone else still themselves here?

I also appear to be covered in scales and have tentacles in place of hair. I'd appreciate some insight, if anyone has any.

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[fearinahandfulof]

How does that work?

[itsananimalthing]

Got me. I've never done it before. But seems like I basically got dumped into the diabolin kid's body without actually forgetting I'm not him. He's still in here, kinda, but like he's background noise.

[fearinahandfulof]

Does he know you're there?

[itsananimalthing]

Nah. He don't know nothin's different from normal, far as I can tell.

[fearinahandfulof]

That must be... strange.

[Cassandra is quiet for a moment.]

We all must have disappeared really suddenly, when we were here last.

[itsananimalthing]

Well, shit was weird last time we were here. Infiltrators and shit got into liminal space. Portals opened up everywhere. It was a mess. A couple dozen passengers disappearing from a very crowded ship was the least of the shit they had to worry about.

[fearinahandfulof]

I know... but after the worst of it was over, they might have had time to think about it some more.

[It could be attributed to the tachyon storm. But if it were her - well, if it were her, she'd probably be dead, but if she had survived, she would have been unsure about that. After all, they'd all been on Gehenna together, and the tachyon storm hadn't reached that place immediately. She'd wonder why these people in particular had disappeared, and look for things they might have had in common. And maybe there wouldn't be anything, but there might be.]

[itsananimalthing]

Mostly I think we all assumed the missing people were on the second ship that didn't make it through. Cuz there were two big ones to start with-- and a whole mess of little ones. Or else got stuck in the portal place-- liminal space. Plus a lot of us were hallucinating, not just my kind, so could be some people figured we imagined this person or that person.

There was a lot of shit going down, most of which could pretty easily explain missing passengers.

[fearinahandfulof]

And there was a lot of confusion when the Corona people moved to the Empress of Moths.

...If they remember Liminal Space, we're going to have to be careful. More careful.

[She's not sure whether they as a group are quite capable of carefulness.]

[itsananimalthing]

Think I'd forgotten you were on that one. Huh. Guess Ridic didn't pay much attention.

But yeah, they remember. We remember. Not what it was, never did know that, but that there was a place on the other side of those portals.

[fearinahandfulof]

I think we mostly didn't run into each other. And I started out on the other ship initially - I just stayed on the Empress of Moths after the portals started opening.

[She really hadn't liked being on the Corona.]

So we can't let them see us moving to or from Liminal Space.

[itsananimalthing]

Yeah, be best if not. If anybody needs to rent a room here, I can probably share some of the Empresses' credits, so we can keep jumpin' to liminal to a minimum. Or we can find some outa the way corner to make 'em if it ain't an emergency.

[fearinahandfulof]

They won't need those?

Why is the Empress here, anyway?

[itsananimalthing]

Delivering cargo and picking up supplies. We got plenty of trees on that moon we landed on, this station don't have any, so it's a hot commodity. Means we can buy a lot of shit we don't have but need.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra is quiet for a moment.]

Is everybody all right?

[itsananimalthing]

Mostly. Lost a couple people since then, picked up a few more, but mostly we're still together and shit.

[fearinahandfulof]

That's good.

[There's a short pause.]

It is good, right?