Camp: private conversations

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If you hear it again, let me know. I'll see what I can do about it.

[soylentprotag]

... All right. There's... [there's something else, something that pushes a little more urgency in his voice] I don't know how much time we'll have.

[He doesn't want to run out of time again. He still feels like... he should have been better prepared, this last week. Better and faster. Smarter. He doesn't know, exactly, what he could have done. But there had to have been things he'd missed.

It had been hard to see clearly. But:]

The weekend. I don't know why. But that was the deadline, this time.

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The deadline for what, exactly? What did the voice ask you to do?

[soylentprotag]

[He blinks for a moment. Right, she might... still not know. He'd assumed that someone would have come to her demanding answers a while ago, and he had himself, in a way. But maybe none of them had been clear enough. It had been pretty chaotic back then.]

Do you remember, when I asked you about sacrifices?

The voice wanted us to kill someone. It said that if we didn't, the sickness last week would kill all of us. [he stumbles to a stop for a moment] ... That's why Lillith did what she did.

[It was why... last week had gone the way it had gone. All of it.]

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...

[Red definitely doesn't have an answer for that. Instead, she glances to her computer.]

Lenka, I need to ask you to leave for a bit. I have some work to do.

[He's free to stop by later, though.]

[soylentprotag]

[He bites his lip, but he sees her glancing at her sword. She probably means research, right?]

I'll... come back.

[He's tired, too, though he's glad he came.

There are some other things he needs to talk over with others, perhaps, before he comes again.]