grasshopper 28, evening

[blue_ice]

[ 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. ]

Comments

Re: [voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[unfavorableinstigation]

[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!]

[voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[blue_ice]

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

Re: [voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[unfavorableinstigation]

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?

[voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[blue_ice]

They said something about traveling back....

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

Re: [voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[unfavorableinstigation]

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...

[voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[blue_ice]

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?

Re: [voice][Now locked to their cabins]

[unfavorableinstigation]

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.]

[voice][Now locked to their cabins]/wrap?

[blue_ice]

Great. Let me know if you find anything else.

[voice][Now locked to their cabins] Yes to wrap!

[unfavorableinstigation]

You can count on me, Kaiba.

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