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[mstitel]

[Hey Tranquility. This is a face that's been kind of missing for a while, and boy does he look tired. Tired and worn and just kind of like a kid who's seen way too much shit in way too short a time.]

Hey, um. [Well, that's eloquent. And kind of scratchy, like he hasn't actually spoken in a few days. He clears his throat, shifts around a bit, and tries again.] I'm back, sorry... for disappearing, I guess. We got stuck in a weird part of the ship when lockdown hit.

[There's a long bit of silence where James just kind of looks off to the side of his communicator, spacing out. And it's more than obvious that he's pale, with dark circles under his eyes. A bit gaunt from not really being able to find much food from his little getting lost thing.]

Libby's... gone. And I found... if I can just- if a Miles and a Jesse who knew her can get in touch, that'd be... she told me to tell you.

[For now, he's saying nothing about the latest addition to his room.]

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[onlysaneone]

[ Azari looks relatively apathetic, except for maybe some underlying frustration, considering how freaked he was over James being missing, but only if you don't know what to look for. If you don't know that he tends to scold his siblings when they scare him, out of relief, and if you can't recognize the slope of his shoulders when he's at ease instead of tense and worried. ]

You haven't eaten since you got back, have you? I'm coming by with food so I don't have to drag your butt to medical when you collapse from malnutrition.

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[hostage]

[Okay. It happens. He knew it would happen eventually. It's going to happen to all of them. He just... focuses on keeping it together for the camera.]

I'm Jesse.

[deprecate]

Shit, really?

[ Gone where, he wonders? But he's not brave enough to ask it aloud. Perhaps it's better to think she'd gone home, but then, maybe home hadn't treated her any better than this place ever did. Certainly he'd seen too much of himself in the girl's darkness to imagine she'd had a happy life, but then, who does? ]

[ A moment's more silence and he rubs his jaw. ]

Not that I much knew her. Thanks for, erm. Lettin' people know.

[ Maybe once he would have been sadder, but lately it feels like his interest in human connection has gone down the drain. Which is maybe why he doesn't ask if the guy is okay (about her disappearing, about time in a strange part of the ship.) ]

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[jurisimpudent]

[Oh.

...Oh.

He wonders if gone means dead, and...Well. Of course it does. That's simply logical; as per all his hypotheses, the people who disappear do die, because to presume that they simply disappear is absurd. It takes him an hour before he responds, and then it's by text.]

I am Miles Edgeworth.

[willpunchfaces]

[Francis is quiet at first, giving James that moment to mourn. he didn't like Libby all that much, sure, but he's lost enough people in his life to know how it feels, to need that moment where you just turn in on yourself

he also knows you can't let someone think on it forever, so when he speaks, his voice is brusque, matter-of-fact, and even a little bit teasing because it's James and if he didn't treat him like a bro he wouldn't respect him]

Do you have any idea how long I looked for you, dude?

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[akidfrombrooklyn]

[ Steve, at first focusing on James and the relief he feels at seeing him in one piece, eventually lets his gaze wander until he catches a glimpse at the mask, which makes him frown. Still, there are more pressing concerns. ]

Glad to see you're still with us, kid, you had a lot of people worried. [ He sounds more worried the longer he looks at him, and his voice lowers a lot, going much softer. ] You okay?

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[soothing]

[ They've never met, but he's just a kid. She has to say something. ]

Would you like something to eat?