[network] @Iwillnot; A catastrophic tragedy; Morning 326 [open]

[absentconstellation]

[ Video ]

[ The Cat doesn't look particularly sad to human eyes. If anything he might look a little scared. His ears are back, hair on end, tail tucked tight against his body. It takes a keen (or feline) eye to recognize his body language as depressed. ]

Karkat and Rose are dead. Davesprite has not revived.

You have my condolences.

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@LELRIC; audio

[armoured]

[Al's voice is quiet, a slight wobble even as he tries to hold it together.]

What-- what happened? How can they all be gone?

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[absentconstellation]

An anomaly. It took them both, and left me.

[ He doesn't feel any guilt about that, at least. He understands how weird the anomalies here are, how incontrovertible they can be. ]

[armoured]

I'm-- how could it take both of them? Didn't the other one run?

[He's not ever heard of an anomaly managing to get more than one member of a group, usually it drags one person off and disappears.]

[absentconstellation]

They were taken both at once.

[ The moment they opened the door, too. There was no chance to run. ]

[armoured]

I'm sorry.

[That must have been hard to see.]

Do you remember what it looked like?

[absentconstellation]

Two hooded figures with strange, snout-like faces.

[armoured]

Wait, there were two anomalies at the same time?

[absentconstellation]

That is one possibility.

[ Or it might have been one anomaly that looked like two weird lump things. ]

[armoured]

I don't think I've ever heard of two anomalies appearing at the same time, I think someone should ask the admin about it and make sure, it might be important.

[If anomalies are also working in pairs or groups now, it makes this all a whole lot more dangerous.]

[absentconstellation]

Have you not? Curious.

[ The Cat doesn't pay all that much attention, honestly. So... you probably shouldn't expect him to care enough to talk to the admin. ]

[armoured]

Don't you think you should be more interested in this?

[He sounds so apathetic.]

[absentconstellation]

Why? One anomoly or fifty, it makes very little difference in the end.

[ If the town wants you it takes you, and that's that. ]

[armoured]

It matters because it's different to what's happened before, it's different to how anomalies have behaved in the past, and that could mean everything is changing.

[absentconstellation]

If it is changing then it is changing. Worrying about it accomplishes nothing.

[armoured]

It's not about worrying.

[He's a little irritated now, is the Cat being purposefully dense?]

It's about making sure we're cataloguing and understanding what's happening, it could help save someone's life.

[absentconstellation]

[ It couldn't, but whatever makes you happy, Al. ]

Then that has been accomplished.

[armoured]

[He sighs.]

Right, well... thanks for letting us know about Davesprite and the others.

[absentconstellation]

I did not want you all to hear about it from Eve.

[armoured]

I know, and we appreciate it.

[It is a kindness that not a lot of people extend.]

Take care of yourself.

[And with that, he's gone.]