reach the residents

[ximilian]

● ● ● REACH THE RESIDENTS

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// VIVECA

Hi, what can I help you with?

// DEGAR

Today was gonna be the day, but they'll never throw it back to you. And by now, you should've somehow realized what you're not to do.

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Comments

[coordination]

You returned to station, after the massacre happened. Something else that was discovered while we were away on the old station.

[ These are Degar's own memories, after all. He deserves to know what they all saw. He'd want to know the same, if it were him. ]

...

Viveca was dying. After doing whatever it was she did to ensure Emerton would not be returning to the station. You reunited that final orb with the others, but when it spoke to you, you changed your regret.

“I regret all of the deaths that occurred on our last mission. I want to undo them, every one of them, and I want to send them all back to their homes to the time that they came from. I want them to remember none of it. None of this.”

And for the price of that change, you agreed to give your own - your own time, your own life. [ Yzak's own voice strains some when he speaks of that, the concepts hitting a little too close to home. ] And then Viveca, she made her offer, too.

You both woke up later, realized Viveca was now the station's system, and it was just the two of you there.

[stationmaster]

So ... more is everything.

[ he seems to fall still. ]

Thanks for telling me, Yzak. Guess I don't really know what else to say.

[coordination]

And that was just what we all saw when we returned. Everyone who found a piece of the orb seemed to see something different, from you and Viveca, and from other members of the team.

... They're your memories. So naturally you should know what it is that others now know.

How long has it been? Since you two began your work here and the first of us arrived?

[stationmaster]

You're right. It's hard to hear but it's better to hear it at all.

[ phew! he lets out a low exhale and thankfully doesn't have to say much else (for now) as they enter the north wing together.

yzak will see degar offer the two orbs to join the rest of the glowing bulbs of bright, colourful lights ... not unlike the memory he'd just witnessed as degar had offered the last of the orbs to the greater Orb.

now when he finishes, nothing big happens but the mirrored image might feel different now. heavier, somehow. ]

That's a good question. [ degar looks thoughtful. ] A few months? Give or take?

After ... what you saw, it wasn't like we had our own missions to go on, or any real knowledge of how much time had passed on this station while we worked to fix this place up and recruit you all. It was just me who needed sleep and even then I didn't keep regular hours anymore.

[coordination]

Regular hours are a near non-existence for that sort of undertaking. [ Said with a tone of I get it. ]

What happened to the Orb after that? If that was the last piece of it, what caused it to shatter all over again?

sorry for the delay! the notification got tragically lost

[stationmaster]

[ he hums in agreement. ]

Well, you said it yourself, the Orb shattered after that. Broke into a bunch of tiny pieces all across the cosmos. It was ... my deal that did it. Kind of undid everything to redo everything, you know?

At least that's how I understand it.