reach the residents

[ximilian]

● ● ● REACH THE RESIDENTS

For any questions you want to ask Viveca or Degar and receive an IC response, please direct them here. Please indicate in the subject line who you are trying to contact.

// 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.

▶ NAV

Comments

[peasant]

[ alina's surprise stretches into silence, a sinking weight plunging her stomach out from beneath her. a shaky breath crackles on the other end of the earpiece's feed, sifting through her dread before she quietly hazards, ]

They died, didn't they. [ why else would viveca sound so soft, so somber, like speaking of it might disturb a resting memory? ] Because of these missions?

[ really, she had always known it was a possibility, didn't she? but it stirs her insides into a roiling, churning mess of realization all the same — as though only finally, finally feeling the full crushing pressure of what is at stake. ]

[vivecai]

... I'm sorry.

[ the tired apology is confirmation of everything and nothing at the same time — as her words often are, carefully chosen, yet always meaning in full. ]

I didn't mean to — [ to do what? remind alina of the danger they're all in, every time they leave the station? to speak of someone from the previous team? to reveal any of what she's just revealed at all? maybe all three at once. ]

... I wish I could say your safe return is always guaranteed, but — I guess the saying "high risk, high reward" holds true, here. You have much to gain... but just as much to lose.