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[ Nothing more is said via the communicator on Oxford's end. He checks his general appearance, as per his habits, and though he hardly feels fit for direct human interaction, he reasons that this is an important conversation that needs to be had, and he needs to put vanity aside at least for a moment. It doesn't take him too long to locate Aberdeen's room, though he stops outside of her room without knocking or making any obvious move to make himself known to her.

Here, he can feel her consciousness, and he touches upon it gently. As I'm rather sure you may have noticed, he begins, something is a little wrong, to put it lightly. ]