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[lifetothefullest]

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[lifetothefullest]

[He hesitates briefly, trying to decide how and if he wants to approach what he thinks is the real issue, but eventually--]

Kyna's okay, if she's who you're actually worried about and you wanted to make sure someone would be around to look out for her.

[withmeinparadise]

[ There's a pause on his end, too, a fairly long one, but hey, good guess, Lance, because eventually: ]

don't tell her i was asking about her.

[lifetothefullest]

I won't.

[And in turn he doesn't want to directly say that Kyna told him about her argument with Sam, but he also wants to say something to help, so--]

Whatever's going on, we're all kind of stressed out right now. In a few days it'll probably be easier to handle.

[withmeinparadise]

told you, i'm fine. kyna though, she's not doing too bad? don't let her work too hard.

[lifetothefullest]

She's doing okay. I think she's been helping at Red Wings.

[Just saying.]

[withmeinparadise]

sounds like her

[lifetothefullest]

What about you? What have you been doing since you got back?

[withmeinparadise]

tearing down vines around here. what about you?

[lifetothefullest]

Trying to help with some of the people who've returned who aren't doing as well.

[withmeinparadise]

good for you.

[lifetothefullest]

We're all doing what we can. Clearing vines is just as important as anything else.

[withmeinparadise]

yeah yeah. don't gotta convince me

[lifetothefullest]

I'm just saying.

Nate went to New Tokyo to greet the new arrivals, right?

[withmeinparadise]

yeah.

[lifetothefullest]

Any particular reason you didn't go yourself?

[withmeinparadise]

not you too. look. other people can handle that.

[lifetothefullest]

I'm not saying you should've gone, I just thought you might want the opportunity to get out of the city for a bit.

[withmeinparadise]

just spent weeks outside the city.

[lifetothefullest]

I guess that's true.

[And a pause, because he wants to ask but he also doubts it'll go over well, but there has to be some reason Sam is still talking to him, right? Still, he holds off for now, instead trying--]

It wasn't exactly a return to normalcy coming back, though.

[withmeinparadise]

greener than we left it.

[lifetothefullest]

Apparently all this overgrowth first happened right after people found themselves in the other alternate world, Zerzura. Could be coincidence, but it seems a little more than that.

[withmeinparadise]

nothing about this place seems all that coincidental, if you ask me. whatever it took to get us here must've had an effect on the place. how much more's it really gotta take to get us over in some other alternate dimension?

you look at all these plants, all the animals, i wouldn't be surprised if they tried to send us on more of these little jaunts. seems like we're improving the place.

[lifetothefullest]

If that's the goal, I wouldn't be surprised either.

[And actually, now that he thinks of it--]

You've heard about the people who make the shrines to Displaced, right? They think we're touched by gods or something along those lines, and they have a big focus on nature over technology.

[And so if it really is this whole gods thing, with the new information they have, then Sam might be right; the plant growth might not be a side effect, but the point.]

[withmeinparadise]

with the tattoos? yeah, i know who you mean.
after someone around here drowned half of south america, i can't exactly blame them for being suspicious of the whole technology thing.
gotta be one helluva skill to pick up an entire city and dump it in someone's gladiator fantasy, though.



you know anyone who got dropped in the other one? zerzura?

[ since it doesn't sound like lance was "lucky" enough to have that experience. ]

[lifetothefullest]

I don't necessarily think it was them that did it, but maybe the god itself.

I know Clarke, Ren, and Jyn were for sure; anyone else around at the time also would've been involved, but I'm not totally clear on who arrived when.