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[strayed]

[It's taken Cora several days to work herself around to posting this, considering different people she could ask directly, considering ways to word it that don't sound like she's going crazy. She still doesn't know if she's achieved the latter, but she's reached the point of needing some reassurance that going crazy isn't what's actually happening.]

I need to know if anyone's noticed anything strange in medical. Where the pods are.

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[overdraws]

[ Allison hesitates to answer at first, but. Even if she and Derek aren't close, she's still concerned. So, against her better judgement, she texts back: ]

is something wrong?

[strayed]

I don't know.

[She's still pretty suspicious of every time Allison contacts her, but the answer is honest.]

[overdraws]

[ Allison knows. She's trying, at least, to fix that. ]

i'll detour down there on my next patrol and check things out and get back to you

[strayed]

Don't. It's fine.

[overdraws]

[ It's too late. Allison doesn't respond for at least an hour, maybe two. ]

yeah
i noticed

[invisibilitea]

What do you mean by strange?

[strayed]

What do you think I mean? If you've noticed something, you'd know.

[invisibilitea]

Oh.

Then no.

But I don't spend much time down there.

[strayed]

You don't know anyone who's stuck?

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[doggedly]

whats strange

text; I honestly just thought that was ic typing

[strayed]

I'm trying to find out if anyone else has noticed anything. It doesn't matter what.

[Or more, she wants to know it's not just her before she throws it out there.]

text; admittedly yes i could have let it stand

[doggedly]

do people really hang out down there that theyd have noticed


tell me what ill go and look

text;

[strayed]

Don't. There are 20 people still in the pods. People visit them.

[She knows she isn't the only one.]

[trusted]

you mean apart from how many people are down there taking a nap?

[strayed]

Everyone knows that. I don't need it confirmed.

[trusted]

Then maybe being a little more specific about what's strange would help.

[strayed]

If people have noticed it, they don't need me to be specific. They'll already know.

[She doesn't want to just say it and risk being the only one.]

[consequence]

I haven't been down there in a few days, but when I was I don't think I noticed anything other than the people that didn't come out of them.

[Of course, that means that now she's going to head down there to see if she can catch something she might have missed.]

[strayed]

[It's another no, and there isn't really much Cora can do except accept it.]

Okay. Thanks.

[consequence]

What have you noticed?

[strayed]

I didn't say I'd noticed anything.

text.

[de_void]

we're not going to start growing extra limbs again are we? because that was not a fun time.

text.

[strayed]

That was nanites. Not the pods.

text.

[de_void]

but it was from stuff being fed into the pods, right?

text.

[strayed]

Yes. But no one's sick, Stiles. It's not the nanites.