[Not entirely intentional broadcasts...]

[professorwolf]

[While important things might be being discussed elsewhere on the telepathic network, there's one voice that seems more focused on one particular person. However, that one particular person isn't receiving... so it's going broad and wide, dropping in on various brains, more on accident than anything else.]

Nick!

Nick, where are you?

Nick, come out, answer me.

I can't find your scent, Nick.

Please just answer me, I can find you, I'm sure of it.

Nick?

[One Randolph Lyall is looking for somebody, and he is looking really hard. Sorry, everybody whose minds he just unintentionally-slash-intentionally projected into, friends and strangers and brand new people.... Usually he has better control than this, keeping his thoughts to himself or to whomever he's directly aiming them at, but he's getting increasingly panicked, and a wider mental net simply must be thrown.]

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[shiroganeheir]

[Naoto mentally winces. She has a feeling that if she couldn't find Souji, she'd be in a similar state.]

I am not usually the one to use this phrase, Sensei, but calm down. Can you describe him to me? I can get in my copter and see if I can see anything from the air.

[professorwolf]

Yes, sorry. He just-- usually responds when I try to reach him across the network. He's taller than I am, a little broader-- dark hair, a little shorter and thicker than mine. Dark eyes. Mid-thirties. Answers to the name Nick Burkhardt. I haven't seen him since before the Jaunt, but Zeviel seemed to know his face, at least. I don't know if that means he was there and I just never saw him, or if the Jaunt took my memories of him and turned them into something else.

[shiroganeheir]

Do not apologize. When someone that you care about is missing, it can be emotional. I do not want to think about my reactions if I could not find Souji.

I will look for him. Let me know if you find him in the mean time, and take a few breaths, Sensei. As someone very important told me once, we will pull you through this.

[professorwolf]

Thank you, I'll try. I appreciate the help, Naoto.

[Calming down isn't likely to happen, exactly, but he is trying not to actively panic.]