driftfleet | 2nd light

Who: Kairi
Broadcast: Fleet wide
Action: None
When: After the attack

[That was, uh... that was a thing. Yeah. Kairi is looking a little shaken, though she fights to stay composed. One day she'll have to face danger and being attacked from all sides. Granted, it won't be on a space ship, so maybe she does have some room to be unnerved.]

Is everyone all right? The Blue Fish got by okay, but I don't know about the rest of the ships yet. It sounded like a lot of them took heavy fire... Who attacked us, anyway?

[She shakes her head, setting aside that question. Whoever it was, it could wait. There were more pressing issues.]

There isn't much I can do to help with anyone wounded or repairing ships. I can cook, though. And I can help run supplies, if anyone needs an extra hand to get supplies to their ships. Really, if anyone needs a hand anywhere, I'll do what I can. [This feeling of helplessness is horrible, and she wishes she can offer more in the way of help.

Kairi doesn't know how to do private messages on these phones yet, so the next part is still public.]

Riku, Axel... if you guys hear this, please let me know if you're all right. If you need anything, I'll stop over as soon as I can. Please just be okay.

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Definitely worse things that could have been damaged. [Like the hull.]

I think everyone's a little shaken up, honestly. Being attacked for no good reason tends to have that effect on people, in my experience.

[He rubs the back of his head and looks a little awkward.]

I, ah... I'm glad you're okay.

[And, well... he is! He never disliked Kairi, and he genuinely wanted to get her out of the castle before. He honestly wants to get to know her, especially since they're apparently actually all on the same team now, some nebulous time in his future.]

So no one has any idea who they were? Or why they attacked? [Being new, she had just thought it was related to something that had happened in the past. If that wasn't it, though, then what was the reason?]

Thank you. [It's met with a small, grateful smile. While this may be Axel she's dealing with, it is the part of Lea (or alter ego or whatever you could categorize a Nobody as) that she's more familiar with. Despite his mishaps and motives back then, she never believed he didn't care at all.] I'm glad you are, too. I was worried. I still haven't heard from Riku, though... Have you heard anything?

Doesn't seem that way. I didn't think we'd done anything that warranted being attacked, but maybe someone pissed off the wrong person on the last planet we visited. Who knows? [He shrugs and shakes his head.

[Then he looks a little embarrassed.]

Don't worry about me, princess. I wouldn't get taken out so easily.

I haven't heard from Riku personally, but I talked to his captain and he said their ship was fine and nobody got hurt, so I'm sure Riku's all right.

That's a bit of an extreme reaction, if that's the case. [Overreaction, much? But it's only speculation, so she can't comment much either way.] Was the mothership attacked, too?

[Frown.] I guess not, given how much of a beating you always seem to get. Still, getting shot at by another ship is different than getting attacked by a person.

[While she's glad to know Riku's okay, she still wish he'd contact. But he might have his hands full, so she won't push it.]

I dunno, actually--Marsiva's been silent, haven't heard a peep. So either this was all planned and they're just not giving us any answers, or it was completely unplanned and they're scrambling to find some themselves. Personally, I'd put my munny on the former.

[He laughs helplessly then. Even Kairi's noticed he seems to wind up being the punching bag when stuff goes awry. But he knows that look, he's sure she's worried about Riku.]

Don't look so worried, Kairi. [He runs a fingertip back and forth across his forehead.] You'll get wrinkles! I'm sure Riku's fine, but if you're that concerned, you know you can contact him directly, right? If you've got somebody's ID number you can send them a private message.

Would they really deliberately have someone attack us for ratings? [That is so fucked up, if that's the case.] Someone could have died!

You can make them private? [Shit son, she didn't know that. She's sent him like, text messages and stuff before, but she didn't know about the privacy setting.] I know how to message him directly, but I wasn't sure if it could still pop up for everyone to see. Maybe I will, then, just in case.

I'm not sure I'd put anything past them, really. I mean they somehow kidnapped all of us from wherever we were before and brought us here with no regard for what we might have been in the middle of--I'd say a planned attack is certainly in the scope of reality.

[He points to the lower part of the screen, toward where some of the buttons are below it.]

There's a filter option. You can input the ID number, and it'll be a private message. Now... [He looks a little guilty.] I mean, there's only so much an encryption can do, but it doesn't just pop up for everyone to see. [He might actually spend some of his time poking through encrypted messages to snoop on people. Hey, he's curious, okay?]

I... guess you have a point there. Still, it just seems so out of line for them to do that, even considering the other things they've done. But if ratings are that important to them...

[Well, her opinion of Atroma just dropped a bit, that's for sure. Even if they weren't responsible for the attack, surely there was something they could have done to help.]

Oh, I see. Thanks, Axel. [Ha, she got it right the first time!

However, his little comment, and that look, doesn't go unnoticed. Kairi raises an eyebrow at him.]

People can hack into it?

I dunno, probably. Nothing's really 100% foolproof, right?

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