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Vitali doesn't seem inclined to come much closer to any of you; there's a wall of glass between her and you, and she appears to want to keep it that way. Any attempts to breach it are likely a terrible idea; just because there aren't any soldiers with them doesn't mean that they're unarmed, after all.

"So you've decided to act up," she says, her hands folded behind her back, her posture formal and stiff in a way that doesn't suit her; her gaze remains as icy as her words, though she's refraining from making direct eye contact with any one of you in particular. She's still audible, despite the glass; it isn't as all-encompassing as the Shimmer seemed to be whenever it spoke to you within the boundary, but it's sharp, commanding. "If that's what you want to do, then fine. We can talk about that. You guys haven't wanted to settle since you got back; maybe this will make you actually sit down for a moment.

"If you're going to talk, get it out of your system before we throw you back in quarantine and figure out what to do with you. And try to keep from launching at the glass or doing anything stupid to yourselves in the meantime. We'd hate to have a reason to classify any of you as a threat."

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[shimmermods]

Not too long. About a week, maybe a bit more.

[bornandbread]

Hmm. A little better than a year.

[It's not in Jean's nature to be openly sassy, but it's also not in Jean's nature to yell, really, so here he is just musing to himself.

His expression is fairly relaxed, though, because once again nobody's getting blown up yet and he's getting the impression from all the discussions that they don't actively want to get into it down here among all the beds and whatnot.]

Did you find out anything new from watching us?

[shimmermods]

We're not sure if you've actually knocked it off on the dying front yet, but you've at least seemed to slow down the pace of it. No one's sprayed blood all over anybody trying to handle them. Hopefully that pattern holds.

[jesus vitali]

[bornandbread]

I don't think any of us feel like we're dying, or have at any point. Even when the original Shimmer was dealt with.

[Like, it's freaky as hell but he's willing to acknowledge how things are at this point; maybe he's gotten a little too used to it? Or this is just Jean being Jean in general. Changes in himself are always a lot less noticeable than in other people.

He did kind of. Take a moment or two with all the differences really laid out there. Are his organs okay.......]

Maybe the Shimmer is the thing stabilizing this?

[shimmermods]

Maybe. Again, we're all running blind right now; this isn't something any of us really know how to handle in its entirety.

[bornandbread]

Since we've made contact with the others and--

[A brief glance at N again, though he doesn't comment explicitly, it's kind of complicated to figure out what to call the guy still.]

... It might go faster and smoother to let us handle some of it. We have experience, after all.

[Like, he himself isn't particularly knowledgeable still about the nuts and bolts (that's a little too literal at this point) but it looks like some people have ideas.]

[shimmermods]

It looks like some of you have some thoughts, anyway.

[Which isn't a no.]