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[ofdewandglass]

[Feferi is going to keep this quick. She looks tired, but she manages to smile.]

Hi, everyone. It's Feferi.

Number one - everyone who was in Jason's pod last month...I know none of us are okay. It's impossible to be okay after what that bastard put us through. But...are most of us some semblance of all right? Is there anyfin I can do to help?

Number two - I'm sorry if I worried anyone. I couldn't help being away. I was so scared that you would all think I had disappeared for good, and I was worried about you, too.

Number three...if anyone else from any version from Alternia has arrived...hello. And I'm sorry.

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[ofdewandglass]

[Feferi is silent as Equius speaks, listening to every word. There are moments where she wants to protest, to tell him that wasn't so bad, but she doesn't. A Space player knows what's right and wrong with things in that area better than anyone else, and she manages to hold her tongue long enough to make that leap of logic.]

...I'm sorry. I'm our session's Life player, and I...I think I get it. Jason broke Life, perverted Life, for us. And Riki perverted, twisted, broke Space for you. And to think that Ruana girl treated it like the funniest game ever makes my food storage patch churn in ways it shouldn't.

[mutab1e]

[It... yeah, it was bad. Even for normal people it caused serious disruptions in the way their minds could function. But then, Equius figured, he did not know what it was like to be consumed in Jason's experimentation like she did, even if he had seen it from the outside. As if to compensate for the massive word dump he just piled on her, his next response is short and to the point.]

...Yes. I see how her being in charge has affected the Tower, now.

[ofdewandglass]

She's completely insane. To think that kind of sick competition was in any way all right...to experiment on us like that, whether it's breaking Space, doing things that violate the very principles of Life, make us afraid to take a Breath, to attempt to crush the Mind, bring us into a Rage, make us lose all Hope, break each Heart, draw our Blood, have us think we're in a Void, make us see our Doom, make us curse every second of Time that passed, and make us think the Light was extinguished...

[If she could hug him, she would. Instead, she sighs, making a soft shooshing noise.]

We proved we're stronger than that, though.

[mutab1e]

[Good thing she can't. He'd probably flip his lid completely. He does catch the shooshing noise (ouch, right in the kokoro), but doesn't mention it.]

...How? By just living through it... that doesn't mean anything.

[ofdewandglass]

It means everything. We get stronger with every experience we go through. If they break our spirit, they break everything. I don't want that to happen to any of us.

[mutab1e]

[He's about to argue back with something like "It's a little late for that," but her words make him pause. Feferi gets a short gap before the next transmission comes through.]

That is a very tall order.

[Deep breath.]

But... I think you are capable of using your power for good.

Should you need my help, I would be honored to serve you, Empress.