(animal noises) ............... 3!

[countermeasures]

shitpost to come once you know who our new buddy is......

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[ktiseos]

For that matter, just who is it that you work with? I'd more or less expected our number to remain at four.

[local man definitely just kept thinking someone was impersonating one of them...]

[pura]

I work with Riff-san. If it's the same for one of you, I expect it to be Jiuqing.

[ktiseos]

...how strange. Do you two perform the same duty, then?

[pura]

I'm responsible for some of the special deliveries, but not others, so I think that's the case.

What about the rest of you? I know nothing about your tasks.

[ktiseos]

The dreams are mine-- the ones with the rose tattoos. I work with Bass to send them.

[a slight pause.]

The pig ones are not mine, nor do I expect he has two individuals working with him as well, seeing as they manifest differently. I've yet to have the chance to speak with him of it, but I suspect they may have something to do with him regardless.

[pura]

Oh, so I have you to thank for that dream the other week. Do you have any idea why I didn't start acting funny until Friday?

[Maybe it was a mod typo. Who knows. It haunts her.]

Well, if you get an answer about the pig tattoos, I would be interested in hearing about it.

[ktiseos]

I do not, no, but I was told not to worry about it.

[it was a mod typo]

I will share if I learn anything, however.

[georeject]

[this is completely irrelevant but since clarte hasn't really gotten the chance to see emet recently until now—]

By the way, Emet-Selch... how are you doing?

[ktiseos]

I healed myself further, earlier.

[he's all good! no longer moving cautiously, or slightly singed.]

[georeject]

That's good. It sounded like a rough time.

[ktiseos]

It is fine.

[he's fine everything is! fine!]

[georeject]

... Okay. If you ever want to talk about it, though, I don't mind listening.

[they know he will not but the offer is there.]

[countermeasures]

[she is giving them a deadeyed stare right now.]

[pura]

... Speaking of. Did you spend enough time in the medbay, Clarte-san?

[countermeasures]

[she nods]

That's right.

[georeject]

How did the two of you find each other, anyway?

[countermeasures]

I think she was planning to make me her confidant about what she was doing...? But when she began the conversation, it became rather obvious that she was the other cat, so I asked if she was the one who sent me the fingerprinting kit and we went from there.

[georeject]

Ah, I see. That was fortunate.

[countermeasures]

Wasn't it?

[she smiles]

It worked out well. I'm glad.

[pura]

To be honest, I found it odd that you had two special deliveries. But I still wanted to be cautious if it turned out you didn't know anything.

[countermeasures]

Riff urged me to keep my delivery to myself, this week - so I did.

[pura]

Did he? He says he never knows what they might be, so that's surprising.

Though... You didn't consider being selfish until then?

[countermeasures]

I'd thought about it a little, but... I do think that all of us, even those without tasks like ours, need to be working together to get out of this.

So, to that end, I thought it better to send my deliveries to them and allow them to involve themselves that way, even if I couldn't confess what I was doing.

[...]

Which I suppose may be why Riff needed to urge me to keep the delivery to myself this week, come to think of it.

[pura]

... You really are a good person, Jiuqing.

[She smiles at that. Just a little one.]

In my case, I chose to keep an item for myself so I could have a starting point for a conversation, and figure out who had received the items I already sent out. Yasusada-san beat me to it by bringing it up in public, though.

[countermeasures]

I don't know about that. [she smiles faintly] I want to go home more than anything. It just seems that the "nice" things to do are the ones that will get me home fastest, is all.

...the way you did it is a good strategy, too. I'm glad we were able to find each other.