[Week 2] Late late late evening 321

[breakaleginhalf]

[The voice that chimes in on the network is tired, and aching, and a whole host of other things Gil is very obviously holding back only tenuously.]

Someone needs... can someone go check on Matthew. Please. Liminal Space. He's...

[A long silence.]

...I dunno if he's-- he's not cavosophia. He's not. [It almost sounds more like he's reassuring himself.] But I-- ...Ghalib hurt him.

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[lightnovelexperiences]

The Arcana who drafted me. Penuel. Judgement. Redemption.

Yeah. No this Jaunt is way messier than I was expecting and. And I don’t have the right skills for this.

I should have specced as a healer.

[breakaleginhalf]

I'm not Judgement's. I'm Magician's. ROSE, people call her.

I doubt being a healer would be much good. People are just... going extinct. This isn't small-scale, kid.

[lightnovelexperiences]

No, it’s not.

...but we’re, like. Travellers. We have bullshit from dozens if not hundreds of worlds.

We need to unfuck enough Earth to grow food in, deal with the cult, and prepare for the Nation-Eaters. These are smaller problems than “world’s glitched, abort/retry/fail.” These are problems small enough to handle.

I can’t think this place is doomed. Even if we slow the inevitable, that’s something, right?

[breakaleginhalf]

You think I don't know all that? I just came out of back-seat riding a guy who wanted to rule this fucking place, I know what shit-ass problems they have to deal with.

[It's the low, sullen anger of exhaustion that burns in his words there; but after a long pause, his mood dulls back to just. Tired. More so, now.]

Look. I'm. Not okay, so I'm not really in the mood for your hopeful outlook, alright? Sorry.

[lightnovelexperiences]

No. I’m sorry, I -

You have enough to deal with. I’m sorry.

[breakaleginhalf]

...hell of a fucking first jaunt for you.

[lightnovelexperiences]

[But she's not responding; she cut the connection.

Is it apparent that she thinks she mortally offended Gil, and that her brainweasels convinced her to cut her losses?]

[breakaleginhalf]

[Well.

Shit.

He'll have to find her and apologise later.]