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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?

[invisibilitea]

What do you mean by strange?

text;

[doggedly]

whats strange

[trusted]

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

[strayed]

I don't know.

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

[strayed]

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

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.]

[strayed]

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

[invisibilitea]

Oh.

Then no.

But I don't spend much time down there.

[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.]

[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.

[strayed]

You don't know anyone who's stuck?

[strayed]

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

Okay. Thanks.

[overdraws]

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

yeah
i noticed

[consequence]

What have you noticed?

[invisibilitea]

No, I do, but-

I can't really help, very much.

[strayed]

[There's a delay in response, Cora's initial reaction annoyance at Allison getting involved even when she'd said not to. But she's too desperate for some sign that this isn't just her to ignore the message.]

Noticed what.

[strayed]

It's still better to see them.

[Or at least, it feels like doing something, checking to make sure nothing's changed. Got worse.]

[strayed]

I didn't say I'd noticed anything.

[invisibilitea]

Maybe.

[strayed]

You're going to say maybe over something like this?

[consequence]

Are you just looking for a reason why they're all stuck?

[Hayley is half-way there, now, currently in the lift.]

[strayed]

No. You didn't notice anything, that's fine. It doesn't matter.

[consequence]

it mattered enough for you to ask about it. there are people in those pods and I've been trapped in them too before. if there's a reason or if you think there's a reason - I'm going to look for it.