[network] Day 387 | @beyonce | Naive [open] [audio]

[thewarningafter]

[There was the usual panic, of course. The usual frantic escape from the bodybag into the cold air of the morgue. No new memories this time, no mistaking this waking life for a dream. No forgetting what had happened--what he had allowed to happen. Stephen isn't even out of the morgue before he gets on the network with a pressing question.]

This is Stephen Strange; I'm alive again. Has anyone seen David? Did he make it out?

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[termineur]

No idea, unfortunately. I haven't talked to him in awhile, since the whole red lines thing.

[ That talk afterward hadn't exactly gone well. Gabriel figured Flynn didn't want to chat with someone who embodied his own horror so well. ]

How about this? Vanitas and I could use a restock of our food- we can head out and meet you at the school, if that works for you? It's close to the bunker but you can still keep contact with Flynn that way.

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[thewarningafter]

[Another babysitter. He needs one, though...and with David so suddenly gone after weeks together the fresh wound of it screams for him to find a friend with whom to travel. He can't be alone with this, not any of it, and being freed of the obligation to go back to the bunker so soon is a kindness he didn't expect.]

Yeah.

[Stephen can't help how relieved he sounds at the prospect.]

It shouldn't take me more than a couple of days to get there; the entrance to the tunnel isn't far from here. I'd...I would appreciate that.

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[termineur]

Sure. You'd-- I'm willing to bet that you'd do the same for me, anyway.

[ If Gabriel asked, and he'd probably ask if Vanitas wasn't following his footsteps at the time. ]

I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Good luck getting through all the tunnels.

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[thewarningafter]

[It's good that he still has some friends in this place.]

Thanks. Be careful yourself; I know it's a long day's walk from the bunker to the school.