Day 6 of Egret [Video]

[unfavorableinstigation]

[There's a young brunette wizard on your ICPs today assuming you have them on at all, who should be at least a little familiar to everyone on the train by now.]

Hello, everyone. This is Nita Callahan.

[She's not quite smiling, but from the look of how she's holding a purple stereoscope in her hands, she's clearly got something on her mind.]

And this is one of the souvenirs we can get from the shop - Eva's got the one I ordered if anyone wants a look at that one, but it does reflect light similarly to the void, so I wouldn't recommend staring at it for too long.

[Nita sighs, shakes her head a little, and makes herself get back on topic.]

Anyway, I ran a scan on the images here and the device itself. The device isn't made of plastic, but it's similar in nature. The pictures - and if anyone's got a better sense for those please get in touch with me, maybe you'll get more out of them than I did - are of various worlds the Voidtreckers have visited. Most of the landscapes are pretty generic, honestly, but they're not places I've ever been, and that's saying a lot.

As far as I can tell, they were taken digitally and then printed, and they don't seem to have been photoshopped or made into something they're not... it's just that there's no people in them.

[Nita squeezes the stereoscope in one hand - then jerks her head up, remembering something.]

Oh! So, the other purpose of this message was - what other scans have you been running? Dairine, I know you've been up to something, but if you don't mind sharing with the rest of us sometime, that'd be great.

[The sarcasm only surfaces for part of a line, but it's very tangible. Then she goes back to professionalism:]

And, this is for everyone, what other scans can we run, on the train, the SCAs, or anything else we've got? I promise you, there are no stupid or silly answers!

[With that, Nita ends her message.]

Comments

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita briefly remembers their shared dream - but, no, that was a woman.]

Was he a... primal, as well?

[Nita sobers at the next observation, nodding quietly.]

True enough. This is the sort of work many of us would jump to do, if we'd actually been asked, it feels like.

[Having a say in the matter makes a lot of difference.]

[thebiggestguy]

No. [That isn't exactly true, but explaining the artificial Echo and Shinryu is more of an adventure than he wants to embark on at the moment. Instead, brushing off memories of Zenos with a slight motion of one hand, he moves on.]

But not all of us, which makes me wonder.

[unfavorableinstigation]

[In all honesty, that's probably for the best. Short of a primal appearing on the train, it's more efficient not to bring them up any more than necessary.]

We do an awful lot of people who haven't ventured much beyond their own homes before...

As ironic as it sounds, being here might be good for them.

[thebiggestguy]

[Dread tips his head to the side slightly, not sure if he agrees and not certain he can deny it.]

It offers a path for new growth.

Thread wrap, maybe?

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita's own expression is hard to read; ambivalent...]

Change is change, some people would say. Whether it's good or bad...

[She sighs.]

The rest is up to us.