@anonymous; dec 7

[chocolateries]

[ she could have waited until el sorted out her id, but she does not. this seems important. ]

Hi, my name is Silena Beauregard and I arrived a couple days ago. I'm still a little new to everything, but when we were dropped off, myself and another girl, we were told something that I think we're supposed to pass on.

The woman in the van said she didn't know the lost ones weren't really lost. She made a mistake.

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@katelin.philips

[covertness]

[ well, that's - interesting. ]

thank you for passing that on
did she say anything else? how did she say it?

and hi
welcome to new amsterdam

[chocolateries]

Thank you.

She said it like an afterthought. Maybe someone reminded her? It was after a lot of instructions for us but nothing like that.

@goro.akechi

[impede]

I see you've mentioned instructions similar to the ones that I received. What do you make of them?

[chocolateries]

It sounded like she was trying to keep us safe. The instructions were to get us to the safe house without being caught.

She also told us not to murder anyone. Is that something that happens a lot?

[impede]

Apparently it did once!

That was before my time, however. I don't understand what kind of instinct would lead toward murder ... There are few in my world who are "made" that way.

[chocolateries]

[ clarisse talked a lot of shit but silena doesn't think she's capable of murder and clarisse and the children of ares are the closest she'd imagine to "made" that way. ]

I don't understand it either. Was that part of your instructions?

[impede]

No. Come to think of it, she only referred to trouble and hurting someone.

I guess it was more open-ended for us, except for where we were meant to have fun.

Did you come in from the rain?

[chocolateries]

I did, Caroline and Marcos brought me to the safe house. But we were dressed in slickers when they dropped us off.

I hope she didn't think I would murder or steal from anyone.

[impede]

Haha, I think it's a precaution. They implied that they were running out of favors to help us.

[Or that's what he assumed.]

Besides ... the batch you're referring to in your shared message? They turned up in a facility full of monsters.

Being thought a murderer or a thief may not be as bad as that. Especially if it's not true!

[chocolateries]

Monsters would make sense to me.

[ and she is riddled from guilt of indirectly causing the deaths of so many people so give her the monsters please. ]

[impede]

What did you come from before all of this?

[chocolateries]

Long Island

[impede]

You'll notice I didn't ask "where."

[chocolateries]

I'm dyslexic.

[ it isn't actually hindering her at the moment and she will ponder that later but it's a good enough excuse for now and it isn't technically a lie! ]

I came from a summer camp, it was a sanctuary.

[covertness]

what kind of instructions?

[chocolateries]

Don't go to the police, don't steal, don't think we won't get caught stealing.

[covertness]

those are all good rules for new arrivals
but just to be clear

this was one of the people in the van that dropped you off?

i don't think they've ever chatted with any of us before

[chocolateries]

Yes.

There was two people, her and a nurse. She was in armor and did most of the talking.

She said people would be coming to pick us up, which they did!

@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

And who was this woman in the van?

[chocolateries]

The guard.

We weren't introduced.

[covertness]

that's definitely new

[ as far as bobbi knows, at least ]

[selfimage]

Excuse the 20 questions and all, but how did you know? Inquiring minds trying to get to the nitty gritty and all.

[chocolateries]

She was wearing body armor so I guessed

[chocolateries]

You guys just had to wing it?

[covertness]

yeah
although admittedly, i was in the first (as far as we know) bus, so there may have been less winging after that