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grasshopper 28, evening

[ Kaiba appears to be spending another late night in the gaming car. He's dressed in the silver and black outfit that's usual for him now, but he appears to be nursing a cup of tea and holding his temple as well. ]

Is anyone else still feeling off after the trip? It's not a headache, and I'm not weak or dizzy, so I don't need to go to the medical car. So don't start that. But it almost feels like a constant low-level state of dreaming. Like that time on the island, when someone or something thought they had any business interfering with our relationships by exposing our private memories.

[ The anger rises in his voice with every word, only to burn out at the end. He groans and flops back into the beanbag chair ]

Did something change, or am I losing my mind here?

[ He's dreading the answer either way, so he's just going to frown at the screen before sitting back. Sorry about the waves of grump, Della. ]

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...we did. We reached an understanding, and only one door appeared

[ His voice is deathly calm, but his breath catches. Ok. He takes a deep breath, because Della doesn't deserve to be woken by one of his rampages this late. ]

You think this is permanent?

[Nita doesn't like the calm in Kaiba's voice; she's had that calm before herself, before she attacked the train.

She can understand why he would be upset.]

I couldn't say.

[And she speaks honestly.]

There might be ways to 'untangle' whoever left that cave together, but I can't say it'd be anything like easy.

... Or painless, of itself.

...ugh. That's what I didn't want to hear.

[ Stay calm, he reminds himself. ]

I know your experience was more involved than most of ours, but are you feeling anything like this?

[Kaiba can't see, but Nita's making a face.

Fortunately, he also asks her a question in turn.]

I do feel something.

And I can tell where they are, all the time. Not in a way that's irritating, but.

It's always there.

My condolences.

[ A small chuckle. Being bonded to two must be even more difficult. He exhales. ]

Do you think this was the real reason the train brought us there? Are these bonds supposed to help us be more effective as a unit?

[Nita snorts; Kaiba's lucky Minako's not around to overhear just now!]

They might be. Maybe the train itself was forcing the issue, maybe it was the island, those spirits taking initiative...

[Depends on if there's more literature on the island's history, maybe info on what happened to other tourists.]

Can't imagine the train wanted to talk about what we saw in those visions - but, if it did, and just literally can't...

[Nita trails off, now thinking about the matter seriously - or at least more seriously than she'd been before!]

Is the last crew guiding us, somehow? And if this is the only way they can give warnings...I could see it.

That just brings on more questions.

Are we dealing with entirely new missions, or just places they've treaded before?

Or is the only danger we'll end up having in common, be those shadows?

They said something about traveling back....

This is gonna be my new headache for the next week. Forget the bond.

Time travel.

[Nita groans.]

I'll agree with you on that; time loops - or even just paradoxes - are real headaches.

And I couldn't tell you which one they got themselves stuck in, assuming their plan worked at all and they didn't perish in the attempt...

We'll have to take notes the next time we receive intel. It should all be compiled in a central place...you had those memories archived, right?

No argument here.

And yep; I've got it archived with notes in my own Manual, plus Eva lent her more tech-based pokemon to help store the memories as projections.

[So they'll be able to give more complete briefings come next platform... if anyone's able to sit still long enough to receive and understand it.]

Great. Let me know if you find anything else.

You can count on me, Kaiba.

... We'd both best get some rest.

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