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[turbedon]

[A far too cheerful sounding voice pipes up over the Network, the owner of it nowhere to be found in Liminal Space in a rather telling way.]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your pilot speaking-

Everyone okay? Anyone gone missing after the last Jaunt?

... Any newcomers we need to get off the brainway asap? Because just arriving and then being run over would really not be astrous. At all.

Comments

[leftbehindagain]

[...Well, he can't really blame anyone for getting distracted. Things were pretty chaotic there at the end.]

I knew several people who were working on it, and I don't think any of them were successful.

[turbedon]

I'm just surprised we didn't get open war in the city.

[leftbehindagain]

No kidding. But if the best we can say is that it wasn't a total disaster... still not great.

You were with Chibi Banchou - sorry, Damian-kun, right?

[He's never going to be able to drop the nickname now. It's too good.]

[turbedon]

[There's a flicker of amusement at the name but it's quickly followed by memories of how bad things had gone at the end so Robin just forces that aside.]

Yup, that's right.

[leftbehindagain]

Thought so. I'm Naoki. Good to meet you properly.

[turbedon]

Robin. The taller one, at least. You can call me Rob. Nice to meet you too, Naoki.