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[ofbelief]

Who: Riley Matthews & You
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva, if you want
When: May 21

[GOOD MORNING, DRIFT FLEET! You were probably not expecting to start looking at the communicator's feed with the loudest possible 'WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH' as a young girl falls off the side of the bed trying to get up. When she gets up to dust herself off she pauses and fully looks around.

This is not her room. This is not Takshaka's dorm. This isn't even the camp in Cecilia's realm.

I hope you're ready for more screaming, fleeters.]

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[Wait there's someone else to call now, too, not that she really stops to think about it.]

NIGHTINGALEEEEEEEEE.

[Sorry for the frantic child, please go about the rest of your day.]

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[ofbelief]

[ At least the screaming died down when people started talking to her, but she kind of shakes her head at that. ]

It's not. I'm not in school, or with Maya talking about breakfast, or in the dorm playing games with Takshaka.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

[Elena purses her lips a little. She's not sure how old this kid is, but definitely too young to have to be dealing with this crap.]

[She moves over to one of the bunks and sits down.]

I know. But you're safe. Nobody here is going to hurt you.

[Which can't always be said in kidnapping situations. Take it from Elena. She is an expert at this point.]

[ofbelief]

[ Strangely, even calming down it's more being alone that scares her. Of course, initial kidnapping is definitely terrifying-- but, in some ways, she's already been through that. But there she had Takshaka who pretty much called themselves a family and declared they would keep her safe.

This was different and scarier because she knows she's no good at things alone. She didn't have magic like the others or could fight. If someone did do something she was helpless and this was something she'd become all too aware of.

At least when Elena sits down she doesn't scoot back, but she also shakes her head at that.]

You don't know that. Everyone says that and then it goes all wrong.

[ It's a quiet but assert statement. At least the truth made things easier even if it was terrifying. ]

[forgetyourusedtobe]

[It is a pretty thin lie to say that things will be perfectly okay, but Elena means it as far as nobody here wanting to hurt Riley. She rests her elbows on her thighs, loosely clasping her hands in front of her as she leans forward a little.]

Everyone here is in the same situation you are. Things only go wrong when we stop working together and start working on our own or even against each other.

I've been here a couple of days and I've got the sense that everyone's really in it for each other, not themselves. I can't promise that nothing bad will ever happen, but whatever worst case scenario you think might happen, probably won't.

And I can absolutely promise you that I'll keep you safe. As best I can.