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Who: ever.
Where: away from the Orpheus common area, the lake, and other common areas.
When: Day 148, morning.
What: releasing tension.

[Someone's snuck out of the dorms vvvery early. And appears to be taking it out on the rocks with his materia.

Watch out for minor earthquakes.]

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Yeah, you'd better.

...hey, can I walk with you for a little bit? [glancing at the small incidental crowd]

Not a problem.

[nods, strolling off at a slow pace (in deference to the heels)]

*following, only wobbling a little really*

[stops, once they've passed a few turns or so. there are some lizards in the distance, helpfully.]

I was thinking about stopping by Monoceros later, to give Almaz his memory back.

*nods*

You know, I think I actually remembered something that might help with that.

Good. I didn't want to call her again if I could avoid it.

Agreed. I don't know Almaz well enough to know what to expect, anyway.

Well, his heart is pretty harmless from what I saw before, but it's better safe then sorry.

Definitely.

[nods]

And I probably have to bake something to make it up to him.

He'll appreciate that.

Least I could do. Plus, I think we still have a lot of the grain ration stored somewhere.

I wouldn't be surprised.

[waves a hand.]

That's step two. Step three, get the knives back. But first, step one.

Cause some earthquakes?

That was more like step zero.

[takes a deep breath, then releases it.]

Tell me about what you saw in there.

*nods*

Take a seat. We might as well rest while I talk.

[nods, and sits down, looking at Jace.]

*sits down and leans back*

We started out in a smallish room; crowded with all of us. Someone who looked like you when you were a girl for that one game was trying to piece a mirror together, but the pieces were flying away as she worked. She told us that she was the representation of the part of you trying to repair itself. She changed appearance to Mirror once, and gave us a briefing; the broken parts of you we were supposed to reassemble were hidden throughout the mindscape, and once we reassembled them and found the cause of the damage, she could do the rest.

[nodding, not saying anything yet.]

She made us a door, and we ended up in the briefing room in your office. Nothing stood out there, so we went on into the office proper. There were a lot of people there; from your memories and from here both.

*shows a ghost-image of the room, small and transparent, but large enough to pick out details*

Jim found the shard we were looking for; some kind of artificer's communication gadget with a message about your medical testing. It transformed into a shard when he picked it up, and then Reyes split us up. Ashikawa and Nebula were with me, and Meridian and Monty with Jim. We separated at that point, so I can only tell you what Jim told me until we found each other again.

Not "gadget", a cell phone. But same difference.

What'd you see?

*nods*

The first area was something that happened to us; the first time your telepathy activated, after that one game. The aspect of you there was holding other people's memories, which were the shards we were after, and worried about going mad. We tried to get you calmed down enough to get them back, and were...partly successful. Nebula tried to get you to cast them aside, which didn't work well. You gave them to him and bolted, so we followed you; the Relative said something to you before you did, trying to mess with your mind. "They'll try to tear you down to their level, baby boy. And we can't have that. Because you'll rise above them, if you listen to me."

*the flat, sardonic tone of his voice as he quotes is extremely eloquent.*

The next area was Surgeon's game; we were all transformed. There were...eight mirrors, I think, showing different scenes; you were in the one showing an empty room. That was easy enough to work out, and that aspect was the shard we were looking for. The aspect opened the way for us to find Jim and the others.

[face is fairly blank for most of that recitation, although it freezes the moment the Relative is mentioned.]

What happened to Jim, Merry and Monty?