crystal.

[charmoffensive]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Loxley
RECIPIENT: All
NOTES: Time to be snad (snake sad)

So,

[ very casual, for that one beat. ]

I'm not sure how things are done around here per rifter vanishments. Ceremonially speaking. Thus far it's sort of been a bit of hearsay, a few raised glasses. Somewhere between a resignation and a sudden death, on the spectrum of our understanding. I imagine it depends on your sense of cosmology.

[ That's enough stalling. ]

Richard Dickerson is gone, I think. The Head Healer. So we'll be short a few miracles going forwards.

Anyway,

[ does sound like the start of more talking, but it ends there. ]

Comments

[grindset]

[Less casual, less anyway,]

You think?

[charmoffensive]

Mmhm. I mean, far be it from me to discount every possibility as to what makes a person disappear, but we rifters have a way about us.

[grindset]

Yes, but... you think? Or you're certain?

[charmoffensive]

[ There's a pause where a ramble is close to leaving him, before he says instead; ]

I'm certain.

[grindset]

[After a significantly longer pause, quietly spoken:]

Then you have my condolences.