He calls me up, calls me on the phone

[bypartisan]

One of the local urchins is telling me he has information on the Zeitgeist. High likelihood that it's a trap, but I might as well try to spring it and see what I can learn. And perhaps I'll get lucky and it won't be. I'll keep everyone appraised.

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Re: Private

[shantiprayer]

[For a split second there's a feeling of pure, fiery rage flashing through the connection. It's more than just the anger of a human. This was the fury of a wounded animal, an enraged monster that wanted to lash out at him with tooth and claw and ice and blade. His words had made her so infuriated it had nearly activated her Atma against her will and it took her a good moment to get control of it.]

You. You are a horrible, cold-hearted person. I will not disrespect my comrade's memory just because one person insists that going against the Tribe's code of honor is the only way to do things. But fine. I won't try to help you ever again, if that's the way you want it. Why would I want to be an ally to someone like you!? If this is how you treat someone that's trying to apologize then I'd hate to know how much bad Karma you're forcing yourself to bear.

If mourning my friends because they were all killed in front of me one by one and trying to keep some piece of them alive is 'whining' and an 'inconvenience' to you, then you might as well mark yourself with dark blue and call yourself the new Leader of the Brutes Tribe because you're no better than Varin Omega was.

You are no better than the lab workers that treated me like I was only another piece in the machine. You are no better than the Director, who's heart was so full of hate that she wouldn't allow herself to feel anything else, even when it was easier to let go of it.

I feel sorry for you.

Do what you feel is right. But I will do what I feel is right too, no matter who's beliefs that conflicts with. I'm not so weak as to let bullies like you push me around anymore. I hope you can find a way to balance your Karma, but you have to realize how much of a jerk you are first.

Please, stay away from me in Liminal Space, for both our good. I don't want to hurt you but Varnani does. I think I can keep that part of me under control but I'd rather not take that chance.

[What he can't tell on the Network? The way she's clinging to the cybernetic cat Mote became on this Jaunt. The way blue lines streak out from the Atma Brand on her cheek in a broken way. The fact that finally being taken seriously only to be so thoroughly ripped apart and have her delicately budding self-confidence stomped into the ground was leaving her sobbing violently. She can't do this anymore... she can't. So it's just as well he's done talking because she fully raises her mental shield to cut herself off from being easily spoken to on the Network for a good long while.]