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Who: Sorey, Zaveid, Dezel, Mikleo
Broadcast: Closed to those listed above
Action: Huntress
When: post Lailah's departure

Action. Huntress

[Sorey is just finishing up assembling their second engine when he feels it.

The abrupt lack of something, deep inside him, resonating like the strike of a gong. He smacks a hand against a bulkhead to keep from lurching forward and smacking his face into the wall, reaching frantically out for cords attaching his soul to his seraphim. Dezel, Zaveid, Mikleo-

Lailah.

She's still there, it's still there, but weak and distant. Like Edna's. The warmth of her fire has vanished, barely a flicker of what it was when she was here. Does that mean she's been sent home? Gods, Sorey hopes it does, prays that's what it means and not something...not something horrible.

To be sure he jumps to his feet and rushes out to check the ship for her. Maybe just- maybe something just happened, an augment glitch, maybe she just traveled too far from the ship for him to feel her (but he's pulled Dezel's wind across the ships before, it shouldn't have changed anything). He grabs his comm and hurriedly locks a broadcast; he has to check on the others, make sure they're okay, to see if they're still here.]

Broadcast. CLOSED

Guys?! Are you still here, is everybody okay?

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BROADCAST

[ Zaveid doesn't feel it, not the way that Sorey does, but... Hearing the broadcast is enough to have him checking to see what's going on. He checks the list of people - Dezel, Sorey, Mikleo... Ah. For a moment all he can do is stare, and he even goes to see if he can call her, but... It doesn't look like he can even do that. No message, no call, nothing. Just blankness.

He quickly realises, though, he needs to reply. ]

I'm still here. You're not getting rid of me that easily.

ACTION

[ He makes his way over to the Huntress anyway - it feels more like home than the Bishop does and he slips in easily enough. There's still that awkward, odd feeling that he knows comes from the raider battle and all the aftermath of it, but he shrugs it off and walks through, ignoring it all and starting to try and track down his friends.

It's not too hard to find Sorey, at least. He can feel the tether between them like a warm balm on his soul, drawing him closer. He's not sure if he should see the Shepherd first or last, though, and he shakes his head as he stops, running a hand through his hair. ]

Gotta stop acting like this...

[ Like an idiot, mostly, but it's more mumbled to himself than said aloud. ]

Oh thank goodness. I knew I still felt you.

Are you okay? I know we were all fine before- [Okay he can't really just say 'before Lailah was here' like her arriving and leaving is just a matter of course. He amends himself,] ...I mean, I know the pacts were okay.

I'm fine. [ He's a little sore at the prospect of her just up and disappearing, but he knows it's not her fault. The Atroma are dicks, and - he's learning to accept that, one little step at a time. It just means he has to try and bear the weight of it as the eldest all over again. ] We were fine before she got here, remember.

...we really kind of weren't. [She showed up right in the middle of that hellion mess. Yeah, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make the connection between Sorey keeping himself in check and Lailah's presence.

It's not fair to dump those fears on Zaveid's head though, not when their relationship is still so shaky. Sorey takes a deep breath before he lets it out.] Dezel and I checked all over the Fleet. I'm pretty sure she's gone back home; my connection with her feels like Edna's.

I meant that we still had the pacts, Sorey. [ Zaveid isn't going to go out of his way to make either of them relive the weeks they hadn't had Lailah around - it hadn't been good, not really, and she had turned up just in time to see just how badly she had been missed.

This time, though... This time he thinks things will be better. Easier. He hopes so, at least, and he knows he's going to have to be careful to keep a watch over Sorey, to make sure he's alright. Mikleo and Dezel, too. ] Maybe she just had somethin' she had to do back home. It happens.

[She would never voluntarily leave them here like this, Sorey knows, so it's hard to accept Zaveid's 'it happens' stance. Arguing over feelings and semantics won't do any good though, so he bites his lip.

Regardless of how worried he is, of how helpless he feels, Lailah going home it's necessarily a bad thing. She's a seraph and her element is in their world; maybe it wasn't as obvious with her but he knows she must have suffered, being trapped in the vacuum of space like this, just like the others do. Wrenching seraphim out of nature like this- it isn't right.]

...I know.

I'm just. I'm worried about her. And if she remembers what happened here I know she'll be worried for us.

Sorey. I'm sure she's okay.

[ Zaveid believes in that - because he's sure Lailah can handle herself. He believes in her and he believes in the bond that she and Sorey share - and if something was wrong the Shepherd would definitely know about it. The idea of Lailah somehow suffering or somehow being sad or uncomfortable... There's nothing he can do because he doesn't want to think about it.

Instead, he focusses on the person that's still here, his voice softening ever so slightly. ]

We're gonna be okay too.

[Right. If Lailah can't be here- then he needs to be strong. He needs to remember what she's said to him and he needs to be supportive of everybody in her place.]

...yeah. Yeah, I know. We've all come too far to make the same mistakes, so. We'll be okay. [That doesn't mean he doesn't already miss her, already miss the way she would give him that gentle smile when he'd come in just to chat or be in her presence, the way she'd listen to him and treat him like everything he said mattered, so intensely. He'll miss the way she gets so excited over the strangest things, he'll miss the way her soul felt in his when they armatized, the way she carried herself with such grace and surety that it bled over into him.] I should focus more on getting the rest of us home, instead of being sad she's made it back. It's something to celebrate.

[ Zaveid knows he's gotta step up too, now. He's the oldest out of all of them, even when Lailah's around, and he can't sit back and just let it all happen. He refuses, and he has to take an active part. ]

We're gonna be fine. All of us - we're... Okay. We're gonna miss her, but we'll work it out. [ He already feels as though he's aching a little but, but - he'll manage. He's lost people and been on his own before and he can do it again - and, heck, with his transfer going through... Well, he won't be too lonely, he's sure the crew won't let him. ] You should focus on trying to have a little fun, too, kid.

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