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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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Comments

[atrueheroine]

[Might as well start things off nice and civil! Page has been trying incredibly hard to control her anger, but at the moment it is. difficult.]

Settle?

[Just so you know, guys...not to say she told you so about these two rocking up, but she told you so-]

Would you be fine to relax if you'd been treated the way you've treated us? Thrown into an underground bunker after completing the incredibly dangerous mission you sent us on, with no word on when we would be released?

[TREES, VITALI! COULD'VE BEEN TURNED INTO ONE!]

I'm sorry we haven't been content to sit around and have tea time!

[instrumentalized]

[ Well, fuck. Now their surveillance is definitely going to get a lot tighter and a next escape attempt will be far harder... Garma is not happy. ]

I don't think our initial demands to be educated about the duration of our quarantine and the exact reasons thereof were unreasonable.

We came to work with you people as employees, but ever since we've come here we've been treated with no respect. If you're shocked about this attempt, blame yourselves!!

[notjustawriter]

What happened to these people?

[shimmermods]

[She's so unimpressed, Page.]

I actually have the discipline to know that after coming back from a mission like that, dangerous or otherwise, I'm not going to be greeted with hugs and cake. We don't know how infectious you are, and we have no way to know how affected you're going to be by this whole experience.

There's no point in destroying that thing only to have it possibly continue to spread immediately because you decided you deserve to have free run of the place.

[planetary_bonds]

Judging by the way you have been treating us, it seems like you already have classified us as a threat.

[What with this...highly militaristic style of treatment, and all.]

What the hell do you want with us? If you really don't know what to do with us, why haven't you been honest about it?!

[shimmermods]

The only thing I don't care for is the lack of responsibility and discipline - I would think you, of all people, would know better than to do this sort of thing after possibly being exposed to god only knows what.

[abysstery]

[Heinwald peers up from his thoughts as Vitali and Hubert enter. He knew it was only a matter of time until this happened, honestly...]

If you had actually spoken to us, then we would hardly be this restless. You've kept us nigh in the dark since the beginning.

[To the point where they had to rebel to have any sort of actual conversation, apparently. He's...glad they're even getting a conversation after said rebellion, though.]

[shimmermods]

That's a good question.

[She doesn't seem to soften at that, but she does look at them, actually. ...She's ignoring N, but that's another story altogether, apparently.]

They came back from the Shimmer and were largely fine for a while. Then they started dying on us. We don't know what caused it to happen.

There's been improvement in their conditions since the Shimmer itself went down, though.

[instrumentalized]

Is a little respect and communication really too much to ask for? I am a Zabi and more than that, we are agents who risked our lives for you! Treat us accordingly and you'll find much better behavior.

How long is the quarantine? When will there be test results? What is happening to us?

[shimmermods]

Child, if you prefer to avoid conversations when you don't know something vital, that's on you. Don't assume that of the rest of us.

[notjustawriter]

Y’think that’s gonna happen to us?

[Wait.]

How do you... improve after dyin’, exactly?

[shimmermods]

Not really. As I've told you from the beginning, everything is on a need-to-know basis. Don't fault me for your position in the chain of things.

[blunders]

[Felicia's just...looking at all of this right now, unsure of what to do, really. She certainly wasn't expecting that escape would be anything easy, but with everything that they've found out...]

...Has there been any progress made, on just what's happened to us? On what's happened to them?

[There's no barbs or anything pointed in Felicia's question. If they have an open floor for this, then well...she's going to ask.]

[pr159]

[ Kind of a subdued snort of laughter in the background at that first part -- imagining someone having the balls and the stupidity to say that to Bisley -- but he does want answers to those questions, so. Carry on. ]

[me_underfire]

He's not a child. And you're not answering his questions.

[shimmermods]

I suggest you figure out your place quickly before trying that again. I'm sorry that you're apparently so privileged that just yelling your daddy's name can get you places, because it doesn't mean anything to those of us who have actually had to earn their respect and frankly, it's laughable.

Get over yourself.

[atrueheroine]

[At least it's mutual.]

So communicate with us? I don't even disagree with you! I don't want to spread this bullshit back to Bowerstone, and I'd imagine my friends feel the same about their worlds. If you'd taken the time to tell us what you were doing, we all might be a little more inclined to work with you. But you're treating us like animals with no explanation as to why!

[Don't get her started on the forced medical examinations....]

[shimmermods]

[It's appreciated.]

We're currently just making sure that nothing is going to spread, and you haven't been contaminating everything. It's fairly convenient that you decided to do this now - they're going to be going over your rooms while you're down here.

You've been exposed to a lot, and it's hard to say what affects that's going to have on the outside world.

[shimmermods]

Know your place. If he acts like a child, he's going to be treated like one, and that includes projecting his problems onto me.

[shimmermods]

They aren't dead. At least not to our knowledge. They've still got something going on in there.

[planetary_bonds]

[And now Yusei's face is...honestly a giant question mark. He's not entirely sure what she's referencing when she accuses him of avoiding conversation...although maybe this is because of his interview...? He hadn't been very forthcoming.]

Well, you've doing a damn good job of not engaging with us before this, haven't you?

[Seriously, what the hell are you saying?]

[me_underfire]

Oh, get off your high horse. We're the ones who risked our lives to get rid of your alien meteorite problem. We aren't even natives to this dimension! It won't kill you to talk to us like we're people and not lab monkeys.

[instrumentalized]

[ There is absolutely nothing else that would have hit as hard and as quickly as this. It's obvious, of course, he knows, and still... When it counts, he slips, falls back on birthright like it means anything to those people. As if anyone in the Zeon army could find him here, least of all a fleet. If he dies here, it means nothing to anybody because this is the one single time in his life where he's getting his wish. He's being judged on his own merits... and failing. ]

... I survived your mission same as everyone else. Our place is those who destroyed the Shimmer for you. That should count for enough.

[ He certainly sounds a lot more subdued now. ]

[abysstery]

[And boy is he still not used to being this low in the chain of things if that wasn't obvious enough.]

As exhilarating as it has been to uncover these truths that I apparently did not need to know, I believe that more thorough and forthcoming conversations with us would help your cause far more than simply dumping us down here and expecting us to remain happily occupied.

I would not be surprised if you received more of the same in those interviews as the last group gave you, due to the way this has been handled.

[shimmermods]

[...Please tell her how you expected anyone to find out what was going on with you physically without a fucking medical examination, Page. She wants to hear this.]

I'm sorry I expected you to use critical thinking with regards to the situation. It won't happen again.