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Apparently Im Too Busy To Even Talk To You Right Now
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Yes Ive Been Fine Just Busy With Work
Its An Uphill Battle In The Department These Days
Youre Ok Too Right Nill

[reassures]

I'm sorry to hear that. Is there anything I can do to help?

Yes-- of course.

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I Dont Know Sorry
The Department Has Stopped Hiring Or Otherwise Dragging Innocent People Into The Tangle That Our Business Has Become
A Little Nest Of Baby Birds Abandoned By Its Mother
Getting Missions Through Has Gotten Harder Every Day
We Still Have So Little Information And Reconnaissance Is The Hardest Mission Type Of All

[reassures]

You don't need to apologize, Kanaya.

They haven't sent me on a mission in awhile, too. Things have been very quiet lately, despite the chaos down here.

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Its Been Too Long Since An Attack
At Least
It Seems Like That

[reassures]

I agree.

We haven't done anything since we got here-- not really.

[People tried of course, and Nill liked living here, but there was a certain quality about it that felt... fake. Especially with the mass departures of late.

It feels familiar, but she doesn't even want to think of what it reminds her of. She refuses.]

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Which Was Months Ago
Does This Time Period Remind You Of Any Other In Our Recent History

[reassures]

[There's a good few minutes before Nill actually responds. She types the message, backspaces, types again and find even with different words the meaning is still the same, still obvious. She tries a few times before she gives up and just goes with the obvious.]

It's always quiet before something big happens.

Always.

[In every world, that was usually how it worked. If there was a period of nothing for long enough, you could start taking bets on how long it would be before something horrible happened.]

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[By contrast Kanaya's response comes pretty quickly, as if she'd typed some of it before Nill's response arrived.]

Yeah
And The Single Quietest Month Of Our History
Was August
Other Than The Slowly Reddening Rash Of Disappearances

Ive Got A Theory
Theyre Kidnapping Us Again

[reassures]

[Another minute or so goes by before she responds again.]

There have been at least 50 disappearances since the start of the year.

Do you mean the Initiative?

[speakveryclearly]

No The United Earth Has These People Confined In Some Kind Of Facility I Think

[reassures]

I don't think the names of the people that were missing disappeared from the network when that happened. Did they?

[speakveryclearly]

[Pause.] Im Not Sure

[reassures]

One of the people that went missing was Kaneis Major.

I'm not sure-- but I don't think his name disappeared from the network.