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[open] a misfire

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Teren by accident, and Nikos by proxy
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: This is backdated to last month, before this announcement, when the participants were in Perendale. It is also not an intentional broadcast, just the unfortunate result of Teren never fully understanding how the crystals work.

[tap tap. then, venomously,]

--and we're not fucking leaving, you intractable infant, not without contacting the resistance first, which is why we're here.

It's your way or no way, isn't it? What do you think Riftwatch is, your toy fucking soldiers?

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I think it is an organization that purports to help-- [Nikos' voice might be a little more distant because he's stood a little farther away but he makes up for it by borderline yelling at her.] --people, and if we have a chance to help this resistance, we take it. Do something. If you won't do it for these people, and you won't do it for the information Riftwatch would gain on the Vints occupying this city, what will you do it for?

Is something wrong with your ears, boy?

I will do it! I'll do it the way we fucking agreed upon before we left!

[ Countdown to a full audience listening in... ]

[ Three, ]

[ Two, ]

[ One. ]

Intractable infant.

[ He is, actually, in his opinion, doing a good deed here. If no one else is going to let them know they can be heard—there are any number of things he'd rather Nikos not let slip because he doesn't know how wide his audience is. ]

I like that.

[breathless silence.

then, her end goes dead to all but Yseult.]

[ Good call, probably. ]

Fuck off.

[unnecessary but also very necessary

but also at least he knows that Teren doesn’t know what she’s doing and everyone can hear so thanks, sort of, I guess.]