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[amethysts]

[private to jesse pinkman and miles edgesworth | not encrypted | video]

[The Libby--and it's just Libby, even if her face is clean and her hair is gently washed and flowing smooth and purely blonde--who appears in the video is relieved. Not drunk, not jittery with tension, not panicked or cornered or twisted by anger. Just relieved, smiling with an old, recently missing quirk to it, wrapped up in an oversized black jacket and smoking with a hand that shakes but only slightly.]

Hey, guys. Guess who I can't find? Um--do you want to like. Watch a stupid future movie or whatev, some time? I've got--I've got a lot of free time. So. You know. Or anything.

And, um--maybe we should all check in. Every morning and tonight. Your girls too, Jesse. I just ydon't want--well. A lot of people have been going missing. [She ruffles her hair with her free hand, but still. For the first time since she got here she can breathe.] But yeah. Anything you want.

[private to james rogers | not encrypted | voice]

Um. Hey.

[Nervous, but that's fine, right? Everything is fine today.]

[public | voice]

Loki's gone. I don't know who of you care, but unless he shows up and calls me an idiot on this thing--he's gone. So. Tally that up, I figure.

[A quiet, disbelieving laugh, her voice mellow and soft, and Libby falls back on her bed.]

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[ripstides]

Didn't know the guy. [ and he's not unsympathetic, nobody deserves to die but she sounds genuinely happy, so he's not going to push it. even if he looks like he doesn't know if he should be uncomfortable or not. ] Was he a big deal?

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[amethysts]

Hey, Aquarius.

[...welcome to your new nickname, Percy. You've graduated to a new class of people. Genuinely liked ones.]

To me, sort of. He was my teacher. And a Norse god or whatev. Fuck. I'm actually gonna miss him, but I'm not too? It's trippy.

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[ripstides]

..Libby. [ BECAUSE HE HAS A NAME, yes, he is side eyeing her and her nicknaming business. ] Sorry for your half-loss then, I guess?

[ and he's backpedaling a bit because where has he been lately? gods on board. norse gods but still gods. ] You're saying he was the actual Loki? [ huh, weird. ]

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[amethysts]

He said so. [And a shadow crosses her face at that. She looks away, rubbing trembling hands on her knees. But then she comes back.] I'm not exactly a certified divinity checker, 'kay? I didn't even know what a Norse god was 'til I got here.

[compressibility]

Loki...the Norse God?

[amethysts]

Yeah, that one.

Hey, how you been? Settling in 'kay?

[compressibility]

Sure, this place is like a playground.

[One that bites back but Howard has been too focused on catching up to technology.]

[amethysts]

I know, right?

[His enthusiasm reminds her of how she felt when she first got here and--she can have that back, she realizes, she doesn't have to think of what are we going to do about Loki, she's free. It's over. She can do anything and be anything again, except she learned what these people hate about her and she can just cauterize that out.]

Any word on getting into Engineering? My tatt took forever to change, I swear.

[runshouse]

-- And that's how he introduced himself and everything?

[ Loki had better hope he's dead somewhere, or Bartleby's just going to kill him himself. ]

[amethysts]

Loki? Yeah. Did you--know him, or something?

[She looks startled and uncomfortable. She genuinely thought with Arwen gone she was the last person who was going to care.]

Fuck. I'm sorry. I'm Libby. I don't think he ever mentioned you?

[runshouse]

[ God, he could almost bust out laughing. Actually he does a bit, scratching idly at his cheek. ] Uh, yeah, I knew him a little.

[ That fucking asshole, not even bringing him up. ]

I'm, uh. My name's Barry, we were friends since we were, [ created, ] little.

[ video ]

[hostage]

Wait...

Seriously?

[ video | private ]

[amethysts]

Yeah!

[It's as much affirming it to herself as actual enthusiasm.]

Yeah, I mean--I can't find him anywhere and his comm is off and he hasn't answered anything I sent him including--some stuff, and--he's gone. He's gone. I know he is, he has to be. It's over. We'll be fine.

[ video | private ]

[hostage]

[Well, of course they'll be fine, Libby. They were always going to be fine. Jesse had sworn that. But this news is fantastic. It means he doesn't have to somehow corner Loki and turn him mortal. It means he doesn't have to kill him. No struggle, no murder, no cover-up... And now Libby isn't being used by any evil son of a bitch, and none of them are going to die. At least, not because of Loki.

Jesse sits back, taking that in for a minute. Then he laughs as the rush of relief hits him. Then he throws a fist into the air.]

YEAH BITCH!

[voice]

[falsehoods]

I am not certain if this news should inspire me with hope or with dread.

[voice]

[amethysts]

[This time the name Loki inspires the appropriate amount of absolutely fucked up dread it should--she knew, she knew this one would show, but it stutters her heartbeat and fills her with bright determination like a bird plunging for sky. Not this time. No chains, iron or silver soft.]

Whatever you want it to.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[It's idiotic, of course. The man had once grabbed him by the throat and threatened to stitch his mouth shut. He'd acted violently, and it seemed only a matter of time before he murdered someone. And yet...Loki had also saved him from Strela. It was hard to shake awareness of his gratitude for that.

And what of Libby? How was she feeling?

It's most likely a moot point. This is probably just a trick.

His voice is measured.]

When was the last time you heard from him?

[voice]

[amethysts]

[It can't be a trick, Miles. It can't be. Because Libby thinks if this is a trick then Loki actually wants to just break her like a kid bored with a toy, and she can't see him being that petty. It's something she would do, not him.]

Yesterday. I was supposd to talk to him today. He never just cancels.

He's not here.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

You checked his room, I suppose.

video;

[stimulations]

We had a Loki? Norse trickster Loki?

video;

[amethysts]

...yeah? Like, two of them. The one I knew is gone.

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[stimulations]

Well, I can only think we've had a lucky escape, then. Or halved, at least, if one still remains.

[A pause where he realises he might have just supremely shoved his foot in it, mouth pressing into a frown.]

I'm sorry, I didn't think to ask if you were friendly before I went casually applauding his leaving.

[private | not encrypted | voice]

[mstitel]

[Oh, hey. It's Libby. And where she sounds nervous? He just sounds glad to hear from her again.

... Yeah, he just still doesn't get it.]

Hey.

[private | not encrypted | voice]

[amethysts]

[BE CHILL, GIRL--wait. He doesn't sound weirded out. Maybe this is fine. Maybe he thinks in the future that's just how people hug. Yes. And she is not, in any way, offended or hurt by that possibility, because it'd be a good thing.]

So--um.

I didn't finish your tattoo. Do you want to--we could do that. Some time.

[private | not encrypted | voice]

[mstitel]

[He's not that bad, Libby. He knows it means something, he just... doesn't really see the point of being weird about it. It had been fun, and sure it made him a little nervous talking to her, but... Libby's one of his only actual friends on this ship.

Why would he try and make that weird?]

No, it's okay. [He shrugs] I kinda like it like this.

It's a memory, right?