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[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

Who: All the good little anti-entropy engine girls and boys and others
Where: On the way back towards the dorms
When: Day 258, evening, so very shortly after Good Ends
What:

[As the festivities end and it’s time to head back to dorms, there seems to hang an uneasy feeling that has nothing to do with bittersweet goodbyes. The particularly astute may notice an uncomfortable stillness about; not a living thing is out and active, save the Blanks. Even the river seems stilled, as if holding its breath. The more sensitive can probably feel it coming, whatever it is. Even the insensitive may find something about the walk home distasteful.]

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[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[massages his head]

Strange.

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[A strange sound claws at the edges of your mind. Stone grinding against stone, words lost in the flow of something churning.]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[ow, fuck]

Do you mind?

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[You hear voices calling, their words slowed beyond recognition.]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Hello?

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[...e ... wn ... ]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Pardon?

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[ ... ie ... ow ... small>]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I can help you.

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[lie down.]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

... For what?

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[you need to rest. lie down.]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Actually, I find myself quite energetic! The side-effect of eating fruit, you see.

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

*a flicker of searching thought crosses the surface of your mind, a feather-light brush of intent...it pauses, then hovers at the edge of your awareness, awaiting acknowledgement*

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[considers for a minute, before opening the door]

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

You'd be the new guy on Lepus, I guess? Jace Beleren, Canis. Pleasure to meet you, under the circumstances.

*with the mental voice comes an image of its sender, clear and sharply-defined*

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

That would be me. Valerian. It's a pleasure to "meet" you

[his voice is steady]

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

Likewise, Valerian.

I take it you're noticing the same thing everyone else is?

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Yes. Someone or... something is out there. Trying to communicate to us

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

...be ready to cut off contact if you have to. There's a force out there that will pull you in if you probe it too closely. It's a very unpleasant way to go.

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Shouldn't we try to help them?

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

There's a balance between doing that and joining them. Caution will serve all of us better, including them.

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

.... Very well.

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

*someone may have been eavesdropping*

....okay, I'm almost positive that's not something you want to do.

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I gathered.