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[Hope you're all enjoying your sudden, Liminal Space-filled existences, Travelers. Either way, there's suddenly going to be a very tentative, very timid psychic broadcast.]

Um... excuse me...

[For anyone who met Mai during the Jaunt, she's certainly entirely different now--but then again, that's why she's doing this in the first place, despite being terrified of bothering people in this way. So after a brief pause, she rallies her courage.]

...My name is Mai--um, for the people I didn't know, and I... I was really different in that Jaunt b-but... I just wanted to say that I'm really really sorry!

[There's no visual here--she doesn't have the capability--but even so, it's pretty obvious to anyone who knows her that she's bowing her head here in her shame and apology.]

I did some truly terrible things to everyone, and I...I was really-- [A pause.] Just... I'm very sorry. That's... that's all.

Oh-- um. Near-san... [...what does she even say to him? She's really not sure. After a moment, a really awkward pause, she manages a fumbled thought--] Can we...talk?

[For those who would rather go the action route, Mai is not hard to find; she's tucked against a penny slots machine, arms wrapped around her knees, chin resting on them and eyes downcast. Seems this Jaunt took quite a lot out of her as well, but then again, dying isn't fun for anyone.

There are people she knows she needs to find and check on, but... well, she needs just a moment longer.]

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[... she doesn't like to think of it that way, but in the end, isn't Levi right? They're meddling, pure and simple.

When they leave, the meddling stops.

Slowly, her tone falls further, quiet and morose.]

...Are we just... are we just hurting everyone like this...?

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No. [It comes out firm, almost stubborn.] They can put us there, wipe some of us away temporarily and make them play their game... But the rest of us can make sure that what we're doing leaves them better off, or keeps the Trumps from shitting all over their lives.

[He feels even more strongly about it after this last visit, not least because of the outright confirmation that the Trumps don't actually give a fuck. He was invested in the Grid, and had felt that way even before his rewiring- it'd been so similar to home that he hadn't been able to get past how he'd feel if the Trumps brought the Travelers to his home just to drag their asses all over things, stir up trouble and leave humanity to clean up another mess...

No. As often as he's able, he'll do what he can to see to it that the mark they leave is a good one.] We can make that choice, at least.

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[...except when they're Infiltrating, at which point they don't have a choice at all. But she doesn't bring that up, because it's obvious. Instead, slowly, she responds, as if working through the thoughts as she goes.]

So...that just means...um, when we're Investigating...we have to work even harder. To make up for--when we're not.

Right...?

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Yeah.

[It's what he'd been doing before... Though now he realizes his heart might not have been in it as much as it could or should have. He'd let himself be distracted with other things- things that aren't an option anymore, he doesn't think.

Maybe... That's for the best.]

Anyway... I'm glad you're all right. Come and find me later- I have something for you.

[...In a manner of speaking, anyway.]

I'm by the bar, sort of. Door's open.

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Eh...? For me?

[That's enough to knock her out of her funk completely. Something for her...? She can't imagine why, but...

Even so, she nods to herself. Going to see Levi is hardly a hardship anyway; she'll feel safer there.]

Okay... then--I'll come find you. Um... in a little bit.

[She's a little chained up at the moment.]

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[Funnily enough, Levi isn't even considering that- he'd sprung Erwin and himself free pretty quickly, all things considered...

In any case, he figures she has her own check-ins to do, and he won't rush her. There will be some time, he thinks.]

Sure. In the meantime... Be careful.

[Always worth the reminder...]

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[...She wants to say that Liminal Space is supposed to be a safe space, so of course she'll be fine. But she just died, and that memory is fresh in her head, and right now, nothing feels safe.

Instead, her eyes slide shut.]

I will.

[It's the best she can do, right? Until she finds him--so she'll leave off with one more last thing to say.]

Levi-san too--be careful...please.