chroma | catchall for vin

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i haven't had coffee yet so this won't be pretty yet

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my apartment
where are you? i can come meet you

[allomantic]

No stay there I am on my way now

[and a bit later, true to her word, there's a knock on the apartment door!]

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[she lets her in!]

Is everything okay...?

[allomantic]

It is.

[she actually looks pretty happy as she comes in! she's even glowing, her skin giving off a soft yellow light as she comes in. that's going to make more sense when she says, without much preamble:]

...I saw Atsushi, just a little bit ago.

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Oh?

[she smiles and looks relieved.]

I'm so glad to hear that.

[allomantic]

You do not seem so surprised... I imagine you'd heard it was a possibility, then?

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I did hear that someone was hoping to be able to do that for you, yes. But I didn't know until now that it would work.

[allomantic]

[she nods.]

It is why I didn't mention it beforehand - I didn't want to raise anyone's hopes before confirming it would work. But... He was able to give me information that I think is valuable.

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He was?

[on the one hand, jiuqing is glad to have more information.


on the other, she really hopes it wasn't just All Business for them!]

What did he say?

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[she nods, thinking about where to begin.]

To begin with - it is as we assumed, but he confirmed that we need to help the Residents realize this is not their home and they should not stay here, and that we cannot get too comfortable here, either. He said he thinks the Prism itself might want us to stay, and it's somehow forced the Residents into thinking they should, which will happen to us if we hesitate too long here. But there was more than that, too.

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[jiuqing remembers the way she lost her sense of self in her cyoa the other week and nods, her expression grim.]

That's something we absolutely cannot allow to happen. ...what else did he say?

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It sounded like... They have Dreamer on their side. At least, Atsushi said something about Buzen haven spoken to him, and - there were things he suggested we do that Dreamer had brought up.

[which makes her wonder, since dreamer has very little rights in her book, but.]

He said that just accepting this place as it is won't help us get out of here. He said destroying parts of the Prism and replacing them by using our color was something Chang Geng suggested.

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[hmm.

dreamer has very few rights in her book, too. buzen, atsushi, and chang geng do, though.]

...I don't think Sir Chang would have suggested that if there was any reason for him to believe it would end badly for us... even if it does align with some of Dreamer's suggestions.

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[she nods.]

My concern, I suppose, is that if I bring this up during the next meeting, it might lead to a discussion about whether or not Dreamer is trustworthy... Which is a good thing, but if Dreamer happens to see it, I don't want them to retaliate.

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...you're right. Even if we frame it purely as something that came from our friends on that side, it's similar enough to what we heard of Dreamer's plans that it probably would turn the discussion that way.

[allomantic]

[she nods.]

Kashuu thinks it's worth bringing up regardless, and I don't think I disagree with him, but... What do you think?

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I think it's probably something we should talk about. But... maybe tell some people you trust in private, first, so that if it seems like it's beginning to derail into talking about the Dreamer and how trustworthy they are or are not, we can redirect?