[Week 2] Early morning day 320

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe’s mental voice sounds weak and disoriented, as if she’s in shock]

Can someone come to the caves? I need help.

I think Hana’s dead.

Comments

[youandyoualone]

Yes. I am so very sorry, my dear.

[desperate_times_right]

What’s going to happen to her when we leave?

[youandyoualone]

Catatonia. Sooner or later, some variety of mercy killing.



... if you wish to use her death to accomplish some goal before that, I think we all might understand.

[desperate_times_right]

Shit. I mean, she wasn’t - it was like being Circe again, but she doesn’t deserve this.

[youandyoualone]

She does not.




Ghalib will be punished. If the Travelers do not see to it before the Jaunt is over, Cabal will.

[desperate_times_right]

Hopefully Cabal gets to him first. Not exactly beneficial to make him a martyr.

[youandyoualone]

Qabil in particular, Anaf assures me, is very elegant in his vengeance.

[desperate_times_right]

I don’t know whether I should feel worried or relieved.

Listen, I think you’re right about... the best thing I can do right now. I can take risks that other people shouldn’t. Would Anaf help me get on to the High Tables expedition?

[youandyoualone]

Both. And he might, if he thought it would be to the Vale's benefit.

[desperate_times_right]

If it comes down to a bunch of people with lives to go back to or me, I don’t think it’s a tough decision. But Kleio knows the truth about Hana now so I think I’ll need help to convince her.

[youandyoualone]

I have, in fact, told him that another Portori shade is piloting Hana's cavosophic body, so he does see the logic in letting you pick her means of death. We shall see what we might do.

[desperate_times_right]

God, that sounds ghoulish.

[youandyoualone]

I am sorry, my dear, but it is accurate to your condition.

[desperate_times_right]

If he wants to like, be weird about it, he can if helps us.

[youandyoualone]

I will let him know.