Camp: private conversations

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[soylentprotag]

[His shoulders hunch a little as though from a blow, and his eyes... were already down at his feet, but his brows lower over them in a sharper frown than before.

He'd suspected. But it's different to have it said out loud like that.

And:]

Mitsuru said there were nine left.

That's not half.

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I had to cover a bit of extra ground, to make sure to protect anyone who was at risk of danger.

[She over-estimated how many minds needed erasing, basically.]

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[He lets out half a breath. That's a little better. Not by much.]

I know I did something that made the hunters come here. Into the camp. It had something to do with the RVs.

[Natsume is going to kill him. He'll probably let him.]

And then you... did something.

[There are too many blanks for him to be able to talk about this with any coherence. Worries about connections with Lillith at the moment are a little soothed, even if the... memory blank is still a thing.]

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Yes, you did do something to make the hunters come into camp. And I had to intervene to keep them from eliminating everyone.

[She is still a touch annoyed. It was a lot of work, erasing that many memories.]

Please don't be so reckless in the future.

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And it was my sole responsibility.

[That's what he wants to double-check, for the most part.

It means he has some things to take care of, in the upcoming days. Maybe a lot of things.]

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Yes. It was something you specifically did.

[She can at least confirm that much.]

Others reacted based on your initial action, which cascaded into chaos.

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[He nods. He'd suspected as much -- there had to have been some sort of... some sort of ripple effect, to affect that much of camp, on top of their enemies being powerful. It confirms some things about the snipers.

It also confirms that they need better planning, overall; he... doesn't know what to do about that yet.]

Can you... give me more details about the chaos? I guess you can't tell me what you did.

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That is something I think I'm going to tell everyone at once, to get the point across.

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... All right.

[It sounds like Red has plans of her own regarding what happened.

He's... not sure how to brace for those, but it doesn't matter, in the end.]

So we should... watch the RVs. And the snipers -- they remember what happened?

[He's not sure why they would have stopped, unless whatever Red did was... somehow affected something other than the campers' own memories. It's hard to tell.]

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They do, yes. Their memories remain intact.

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Why haven't they come again? Does it have... something to do with what we can't remember?

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They had to remember it, so they could remember that I handled the problem.

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[That's not quite an answer to his question, but she obviously isn't going to talk about whatever she did. Judging by the memory blanks, though... they'd probably learned something they shouldn't have. It's worrying in various ways.

He's not best pleased with apparently having his mind messed with either, considering how they got here, but he's in no position to say anything about it.]

... Would that happen again, with anything other than the RVs?

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I can't give you the exact scenarios where you might get all of the campers killed.

[She says that, almost sounding annoyed.]

Just exercise caution in the future.

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That's not--

[He cuts himself off, closing his eyes for a moment. Okay.

As much as he needs to... somehow make sure this doesn't happen again, in any capacity or in any way, that's not -- completely what he's here for today. Lenka stays like that after he opens his eyes again, quiet for a long moment.

Then he lowers his head, bowing from the waist and all the way down, low enough to stare at his knees.]

Whatever you did, Lance said it took a lot. I'm... sorry for causing trouble. For you and everyone.