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[oceantier]

[There's a blue lady on the comm's screen, not looking like she completely trusts it -- or that she quite likes being so visible. She has something to ask, though (as much as it feels like an exploitable vulnerability to ask) so she stays. And it's fair that others should see who's talking.]

Hello.

[. . . Knowing how to start is harder than anticipated, and considering the last time she was on the comm was to apologize, it feels even more awkward. She swears she can feel eyes looking at her. Unconsciously, her arms tuck into a cross.]

I heard there are "missions" every month. Where we're supposed to infiltrate, or something attacks.

. . . This time there was water in the city. In the pipes. And the sewers. But people say it's not always a city. Locations are different every time.

I need to be able to access some when it isn't there naturally.

I need . . . help.

[Silence for a moment. That was extremely uncomfortable to say, and the next question isn't much better for her.]

Also . . . I'd like to know what people do to find their own space. Where they can sometimes be alone. When . . . they need to.

. . . Thank you.

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[gathersnomoss]

It sounds like it worked out well for him.

[Which... Zel has biases. Including the one that means he is focused on his own problems and not thinking about the problems that another person might face.]

I wasn't born the way I am; it was something done to me some years ago. So I was a human who is now partially something else, and the other... at least the stone added to me was never a person before.

[And now Zelgadis is reflecting that while stone golems are constructs animated by magic but usually with little to no self-awareness, brau demons were living goblin-like creatures, and he has No Idea how Rezo set up the spell that transformed him, and...]

[... Zelgadis didn't so much drop this thought as throw it like a live explosive. For his own sanity.]