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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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[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.

Having fun is kind of a tall order right now. [Sorey can force himself to look on the bright side, but he can't force himself to just get over it like that. Lailah hadn't wanted to leave; he knows this in his heart. That she was just forced like that...

Ah, but he's not the only one hurting in her absence.] Are you gonna be okay?

We'll get better. Sure, it'll be sore for a while, but it's not like she's gone. You can still feel her, right? [ Zaveid's trying, at least. It seems like only yesterday that he and Lailah were on their date and now... Well, now she's gone.

Huffing a noise, he shrugs even though Sorey can't see it. ] Yeah, I'll be fine.

You can still feel her too, right? Through the pact?

I've never stopped feeling her.

[Dad, that's kind of intense.]

Are you sure you'll be okay? [It's not like they have a choice, but...]

[ Bruh. ]

I'm sure. I'll let you know if I'm not, yeah?

Okay.

[But he'll check in, just in case.]

-I got ahold of Mikleo, he's okay too. We're going to meet up. Would you like to...?

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... Sure. [ It comes out nonchalant, but it's still hesitant, that's obvious. ] It'd probably do us good, huh?

It couldn't hurt. We're just sitting together is all. Dezel had to go to his shift, though, but I think he wanted a little time alone. You know how he is.

Yeah, let me worry about him. I know how to crack him.

[ By sitting on him and holding his hand until he shouts... Or fighting until they both break. ]

If you guys are gonna have a huge punchout or something, could you take it to the training rooms on the Iskaulit? The ship's still kind of rickety...

Hey! Last time we talked we held hands! We're making progress, Shep.

You held hands?

...like, as in a handicap? [for a fight????]

Nah. We were rollin' around and I grabbed his hand because he was trying to tickle me.

[ Just guys bein' dudes. ]

Dezel was trying to tickle you?!

I guess I was tickling him first... He threatened to cut my hair so I had to defend myself.

Okay yeah, that sounds like him.

I'm really glad you're getting along better. Maybe he'll remember something soon.

[ There's some real, honest fondness in Zaveid's voice when he speaks, something almost a little too gentle. ]

I don't care about him remembering anymore. This is who he is, and I don't mind that.

I see. [And that makes Sorey's heart swell with affection for them both.] He's actually very kind, isn't he?

[ If Sorey was there Zaveid might be a little red, but since he isn't... ]

Tch, don't let him hear you saying that. [ But... ] He's got a good heart. That hasn't changed.

So he was like that when he was younger, too. -say actually, was Dezel a child seraph, and he just grew up like Mikleo is?

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