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

[galvanizer]

[Clearly the best way to diffuse this situation is to have a 7 foot tall woman with horns and another dragon draped over her shoulders approach, right?]

You're screaming on the network, you know.

[Just going to lean on her staff as she watches Kitty and the dragon.]

Brought a souvenir with you?

[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!

[triggerhappytraitor]

[[Normally, Tachibana would block that and the network out in a hot second... but as he recognizes both the voice and what likely triggered the freakout...]]

She decided she wanted to come with you, even knowing the situation?

[runs]

SHE DIDN'T!

I DIDN'T!

THEY DID!

And it's my fault it's my fault I shouldn't have let her get close I shouldnt' have let her

[Yeah, the filtering of her thoughts from the network is still not working well, too freaked out.]

[triggerhappytraitor]

Kitty.

Calm down.

[[The words are forceful, but kind, very much the tone of a parent as he tries to break through her panic]]

Is she upset to be here?

[runs]

[There is a moment of calm, and it seems like she's calmed down, but when she responds the pause in her panic doesn't last.]

She SHOULD NOT BE HERE!

[triggerhappytraitor]

Why?

[[an he's trying to locate her now because while he's better at the network than he has been in the past.... this is very difficult to keep up with that level of panic]]

[runs]

[There is a moment of what kind of question is that even before she gives the very enlightening answer:] SHE SHOULD NOT BE HERE, she should be back HOME, nobody should be here, and now she's here and she wouldn't be here if I hadn't been THERE AND NOW SHE'S HERE AND SHE SHOULD NOT BE!

[She can be found fairly easily, the big dragon next to her is pretty visible.]

[triggerhappytraitor]

Kitty. Stop it.

[[there's a bit more irritation to the firmness of his tone this time and he's stopped in the middle of liminal to focus.]]

Regardless of what you think about this place, she is here. If it's your responsibility that she's Traveling now, then take responsibility for her and stop having a tantrum that things didn't go how you wanted them to.

[dino_zarf]

Loud!

[Rose is mostly glad the network is back, but she has opinions about people screaming in her head]

It's not your fault that she's here.

[runs]

YOU'RE LOUD TOO

[she might be in a state of panic, but that doesn't mean that she can't get sidetracked. Which actually nets Wash a reasonable answer.]

Only not directly.

[runs]

But I can't DO anything!

[She can't bring her back, she can't bring herself back how could she bring her back, and she's much to young and powerless to protect someone. Not that anyone could really protect her here.]

[dino_zarf]

You started it

[Do not get into an argument with a toddler that way lies madness]

We can't control who gets dragged along for the ride, we just have to try to do right by them while they're 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]

YOU COMPLAINED ABOUT BEING LOUD FIRST

[She's seven and also very frazzled, what are the chances of her standing down?]

[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.

[breakaleginhalf]

Putain d'enfer-- [French quickly switches to English.] Kitty calm down, why are you screaming? Where are you??

[dino_zarf]

You screamed in my head!

[Wash is just... what is his life]

[runs]

You are screaming in my head!

[Poor Wash.]

[morethanashadow]

[WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING.]

Kitty, what's wrong?

[dino_zarf]

Screaming back. Different.

[runs]

[She doesn't speak French, though she recognizes it easily enough, one of the two Kitties having spent most of her life near the French border - or would, if she had tbe mind for it.

Gil actually makes her calm down a bit, because it's Gil, because he will understand, surely, because Gil is safe or as safe as anyone here is and... and, mostly, because if it is someone she trusts to that degree, she can do information exchange and chain of command communication even when freaked out. Concentrating to keep it at bay for the moment, she does her best to describe her location and then adds:]

Cynthia was abducted because I got too close to her and she is here now and I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to bring her back with me, she should not be here.