[text] your blue walls get in the way of these facts

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Who: Asuka Shikinami Langley
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Handholding planet, if you want it.
When: 7/27

[It's not like her to post much, and it's not like her to post with text at all, unless it's as a response to someone else. But if there's one thing Asuka's confident in, it's that people tend to own up to a hell of a lot more on the network than they ever do in person, especially when they're typing it up. Something about the distance. Even Katsuragi always sounded far more imposing over email than in person, except for the last couple years.]

[Plus, she's curious. All those pilgrimages that it seemed as if the whole Fleet had made had to have earned some useful tidbits. Asuka's poor at cloaking her motivations in the best of times, so she barely bothers.]

If we stay here much longer, I'm learning to swim.

What did you get from the tree? Even if it's something crappy like the promo stuff we get sometimes, I still want to know.

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Cassius put him to sleep. He needed something to wake him.

[That's a non-answer, but honestly, what can you expect.]

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[Shinji said, that day on the beach, when she'd been making herself suffer, dressed in her old plugsuit in the heat of the afternoon-- he'd said he heard her voice. He'd said she brought him back. That's what he said-- and that's what she still can't believe, but still wants to cling to.]

That doesn't tell me anything!

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Speared and sleeping, he wasn't able to stay with you. That was the consequence of my intervention. The spears are mighty instruments. First's...

Ayanami Rei's peril brought something out of Shinji-kun. At that time, he had to be stopped. I'm sure the spears would have had the same effect if he'd also been awakened during my own demise. But he wasn't.

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[Something out of Shinji. That stupid, lifeless clone, and the stupider Angel she's talking to now-- they could make Shinji do something, be something drastic. But not her. She's always just hanging onto his coattails and squalling for his attention. Kaw-- Nagisa's had a million lifetimes to get Shinji in love with him, but she only has one.]

[Her own jealousy burns like acid in the back of her throat.]

Is this going to happen again?