@hafid.alghul

[batricide]

[ He's been gone... a while. And it's been a while back home. A lot has happened. Damian should be angry when he wakes up back here, but when the alternative is waiting to be executed? He'll takke. ]

I'm going to need someone to bring me up to speed on what I have missed.

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@kira.solo

[forcevisions]

How long were you gone?

[batricide]

I disappeared shortly after we returned from Zezura.

[forcevisions]

You remember how when we returned from the dream world, things were different?
There are trees all over the city now.
In the pipes. Something we did in Zerzura changed things.
It changed things for us, too. I've seen people's dreams again -- without going to that place underwater.

[batricide]

[ god.

not dreams. fuck dreams. damian grits his teeth. ]

Have our enemies stayed quiet?

[forcevisions]

Define enemies.

[batricide]

The UNA, the people who brought us here, that insane AI. Do I need to go on?

[forcevisions]

The Mars riots are getting worse.
The UN is having a hard time suppressing the news coming out of the colony.
Otherwise, it's been quiet.

[batricide]

Good.

[ Well. One of those three things is quantifiably good. The fact that people are at a point of rioting and that the UN is able to suppress it at all is definitely not. ]

Though quiet doesn't necessarily mean good.

[forcevisions]

No, it doesn't.
I'm glad you're back. What do you remember?

[ she's mostly given up on people remembering anything -- tony and thor hadn't, and after a while, she'd just stopped expecting it -- but it's still a question worth asking. and she's glad he has his memories still. marcos and poe hadn't, when they'd vanished and returned. ]

[batricide]

Enough.
I wasn't even gone for a year.

[ Granted it was... nice. Up until it wasn't. ]

[forcevisions]

Almost a year is a long time.

[ fitz would know what to make of it. the thought is squashed immediately. fitz is gone. it's no use thinking like that. ]

[batricide]

Not that long.

[ Long enough to undo a lot of stupid mistakes and almost get himself killed. ]