Status Check and Dream Review! [OTA]

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Video (Several hours after everyone's awake again.)
From: Cabin 4-B
To: Everywhere

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[Despite having turned one of the cabin's ICP units on, Nita is still writing in her own Manual in plain view of the camera.]

Anxiety dreams - what were those creatures anyway? They looked like they were made of wings-

[While from this angle the writing isn't clear, and given it's in the Speech it's a gamble if your character can make sense of individual syllables at all, it's obvious Nita is grouping details into lists.

Nita looks up, brown hair fuzzed from sleep as if the past day had been normal, like she'd just slept through the night instead of a whole day.]

Hey, all. I wanted to check with you - does anyone else remember that falling dream? Not the ones with flying, though there were a lot of those - but where you're lying back on something, just watching the sky, and then there's-

[Nita breaks off, shaking her head.]

It's not clear now, but it was like everything shattering. Like a dark version of the Big Bang, if I had to use an analogy, with everyone going everywhere. Then there was screaming, and I woke up.

Did anyone else get that?

[Nita pauses, considering.]

Oh, and if anyone was in the game car when the breach happened, mind telling me what it looked like? Or if anything like this has happened before, with the Void. That'd be good to know, too.

[Nita scratches down a few more lines.]

So, just in case we haven't met yet, I'm Nita Callahan, I'm in Cabin 4-B, and I'd really appreciate some kind of context for this!

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[Nita can be heard muttering something about 'perception filters' and wondering if the energy payout for that is automated, before continuing:]

Anyone with weather control abilities on the train? Maybe we could ask the rain to stop, next time we have to deal with it.

[knifewithnoname]

[She wrinkles her nose at the mumbling, taking in the words but not commenting for now.

She shrugged.] If there do be being someone who can be controlling the weather then they have been being quiet about it.

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I mean, I can stop the rain from getting on me? And I know my sister's good at that, too, though she works more with stars than precipitation.

But talking to the rain's not the same as stopping or redirecting it at its source.

[Weather wizardries are not her specialty, alas.]

[knifewithnoname]

You can be? [She raised an eyebrow.] That must be being useful magic.

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Oh, it is.

[Nita confirms, nodding twice emphatically.]

Harder to extend it across a group of people, but definitely useful all the same.

[knifewithnoname]

Then you can be being our welcome-people person when it do be raining next time.

[That way the rest of them can stay dry on the train.]

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[Nita snorts.]

I can rain-proof the leaflets, at least; that's not as hard, when it's something inanimate.

[knifewithnoname]

Well that will be being useful too. [She nodded] It do be sounding like you will be having it sorted.

[She at least, is happy to let Nita do all the being in the rain things.]

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[Nita snorts.]

It's not like I'm a team leader or anything, though!

[She hasn't been one to seek out power for power's sake, though - she just likes being able to help other people, especially if it slows down entropy in the process.]

We'll see what comes with the next stop, then.

[knifewithnoname]

I do be being sure the spider will be letting you. [Oh wait. Is spider orange team leader now Eva is gone? No. It's Curufin isn't it?]

Curufin do be being nice. He do be answering questions and he did be teaching me to be ice dancing. So if you do be giving him your idea I do be being sure he will be letting you help.

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I've talked to both of them.

[And she'll trust Buttercup's judgement, as well.]

I haven't met Curufin face-to-face yet; I'll see about changing that.

See you around too, right, Buttercup?

[knifewithnoname]

I will be seeing you. [She nodded and turned the screen off.]