animus_network | [voice] IS ♞ EVEN ON THE NETWORK'S CHARACTER MAP XI: color coded for your convenience

The first voice that boisterously sails from the terminal's speakers is clearly recognizable to those who know her as Sayaka Miki, formerly erstwhile agitator back in.. what seems to be totally unaltered spirits.

"Yo, my lovely towerlies! I hate to interrupt our monthly cycles of being really really sad for a while after getting stupid things done to us, but I wanted to point out something that I thought was very fascinating, actually."

The second voice (that of Jin Shirato) cuts in quickly, unable to resist the comment.

"I don't. Everyone's whining over stupid shit anyway."

Sayaka plods onwards, despite the interjection.

"And for any of those upper - hm, lower, actually - echelons listening in, hey, don't be shy, I'm okay with you hearing this, too. Turn up the volume, put it on a couple extra screens for added effect. Anyway. Just listen to me a for a second. You know what all this information pumping means? All these horrible things you were forced to give away? It's not just random torture, no way, I know what that looks like. They're scared. Of us. Of what we might be doing."

"Make that what we are doing. It's not like they've made habit to be preventative before, after all-- how many blows to their sanctuary do you think is too many?"

"Or maybe just one special guy in particular is the one who's afraid. After all, it was his turn to man the wheel this time. And why not? Buddy, you've got every reason to be nervous. You're the predictable one, and you've already gotten in hot water before. "

"Maybe he's just afraid of turning out like Dax."

"-Exactly. It's just going to be a matter of time until you're complicit in some great final blunder. And I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for it."

The sounds cuts.

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...Shirato.

[She thought that was him; this has just confirmed it.]

Assuming, of course, that those trapped here are willing to put aside their differences and band together. [Which was a pretty big assumption, but hey.] I imagine someone must have gotten uncomfortably close.

[AUGH IT REALLY WAS HER GODDAMNIT]

This operation's been running for over a year-- of course someone's gotten close. It just depends on how close and how much further now, I guess.

Seein' as the assholes in charge can't put aside their differences, the chances of all hundreds of us doing that are shit to none.

[OK he knows that's really stupid and they should be working together but let him be petty for five minutes.]

Perhaps.

Then again, perhaps there are enough people here that a decent portion of them can figure out how to work together, even if it's not every single person in the Tower.

[Though she doesn't expect Jin to be willing to work with her. Not really. ...truth be told, she's not sure she's entirely willing to work with him, either.]

Getting everyone to work together is impossible. There are always the idiots with stupid ideas and the people that refuse to listen to them because of it.

There's enough of us here for people to run in different crowds. That way you can pick and choose your poison.