we're tuning in for your regularly scheduled changeling screaming

[runs]

[Not long after the return to Liminal, in a timeframe better measured in minutes than anything else, Kitty starts broadcasting. It's quiet at first but quickly gets louder as she's clearly working herself into a fit, dropping any ability to filter from the network as she goes.]

sheshouldnotbehereSheShouldNotBeHere

SHE SHOULDNOTBEHEREsheshouldnotbehereSheShouldNotBeHere

SHESHOULDNOTBEHERENOT HERE

NONONONONONODREKDREKDREKDREKTECHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

SHESHOULDNOTBEHERESHESHOULDNOTBEHERESHESHOULDNOT[...and so on.

(To those who'd actionspam at her instead of responding on the network, she's just standing rooted to the spot where she arrived, staring at a moose-sized dragon opposite of her, who seems to be rather unsure of how to help her, considering that she dodges every time the dragon tries to get closer, without ever moving away further. Her whole body is tense, her fingers curled, and those who can see through masks will notice that her whole body language resembles that of a thoroughly spooked cat.)]

Comments

[runs]

NO!

[Her body language doesn't change one bit, but she is changing towards the new arrival.]

I didn't, I didn't mean to, I tried- [she stops abruptly, biting down the last words, and continues instead with:] I didn't mean for her to be brought here!

[galvanizer]

Calm yourself. Take a deep, slow, breath. [Asa stops far enough away that she can't be an immediate threat to the girl.] What did you try to do?

[runs]

[Kitty glares at her, but the focus on someone not Cynthia does let her centre a bit.]

I didn't want her to bond with me!

[galvanizer]

Why not? Does she scare you?

[runs]

No! BECAUSE THAT IS WHY SHE IS HERE NOW!

[She gives the woman a bit of an exasperated look.]

She wouldn't have picked Their interest if she hadn't been close to me!

[galvanizer]

I think the word you want is 'piqued', but language aside... You think she was brought here by the Trumps, because she was close to you?

[Asa considers it for a moment, leaning more heavily against her staff while her hummer rests his chin on the top of her head, watching Kitty silently.]

That's a fair assumption, but... from what I've seen, they don't care whether or not we bring something back from the Jaunts we go on.

[runs]

Nobody is ever brought back from worlds we visit, unless they get close to a traveller, and then they sometimes do and sometimes don't so it's just a chance that they'll come if you get close to them and I did not want her to come! This is BAD!

[galvanizer]

Have you asked her if she wanted to stay with you?

[runs]

We talked about it and she did not, she promised, because it would mean that she would come here and this place is bad and will change her.

[galvanizer]

Well, we can't fix that now. She's here, whether you like it or not, so now we need to make the best of the situation.

[runs]

NO.

[She'll find a way to bring Cynthia back to Jangwa. There HAS to be a way.

She's not going to listen to stupid people who don't understand because they don't want to see the problem and she will solve this issue by opening a portal under herself and Cynthia, thus portaling both of them away, and then closing it immediately after she left.

The most mature way to end this conversation, clearly.]