Zam is gone. I do not know what happened - she was here last night, but no one has seen her since. Some of her items remain here, but her call sign has disappeared.
[ If only he was talking to someone who could appreciate the agony of spending precious time styling your hair with hair gel and whatever shiny surface you can find to use as a mirror only to get Dumbo chunks in it! Alas. ]
The first one, and I know this will be hard: DO NOT organize any search parties. Not until you hear from her again, anyway.
You send people out looking for nothing, best case, it's a waste of time, and worst case, somebody else could get hurt looking for someone who can't be found. Based on the information we have, Zam didn't leave on her own and she wasn't killed or taken by anyone human.
If I had to guess? Especially with her callsign being missing from the list on the walkies? She's either been killed by something or someone beyond our understanding, or she's been taken away somewhere by something we can't understand yet until we know more.
[ Or... has she? Lalo thinks back to AN000N and how that name doesn't show up on any of the walkies. He wonders if Zam was able to figure out how to do that; or Beth. Are the disappearing people disappearing, or are they hiding? ]
[ Ah, but no! Lalo still doesn't believe Zam could have left on her own without being noticed or leaving more of a trail, so hiding is out. And while he doesn't know Zam well enough to be sure of her motives or behavior, going through all of this trouble to get to the base, establish a home there, and then suddenly leave doesn't make any sense with what Lalo has observed of human nature. Especially to leave barefoot. Especially to take only what you arrived with, and nothing you acquired here.
Minus the walkie, apparently. An interesting wrinkle, but one he has no clue how to make heads or tails of at the moment.
Besides, there are a lot of reasons to keep that kind of information to himself... for now, anyway. But he really doesn't think there's anything to be gained from sharing it anyway. Zam isn't hiding, and floating the possibility just seems likely to sew more chaos... which he's usually a big fan of, but not in this situation. He probably wouldn't have even been so blunt about the possibility of death if it had been anyone but Randvi, but Randvi is from a different time; she can handle frankness in a way most people on the island can't. ]
So, that means she's either dead, in which case she's going to turn back up eventually. Or she's gone somewhere else, and if she's somewhere else, it might be that she's gone somewhere much better than here, and that's not such a bad thought, now is it?
[ Here he would smile sadly, if he could. Half-joking, but not without a sense of sadness looming over the joke, aware of the seriousness of the situation in contrast with the triviality of the ask. ]
Keep her shoes somewhere easy to reach. If she loves them as much as you say, if she does turn back up, then she'll want them when she needs you to come rescue her again.
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[She only vaguely knows what that is, secondhand from more widely travelled people like Hytham and Yanli, but they're supposedly quite large]
What is it that you want me to do?
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You send people out looking for nothing, best case, it's a waste of time, and worst case, somebody else could get hurt looking for someone who can't be found. Based on the information we have, Zam didn't leave on her own and she wasn't killed or taken by anyone human.
If I had to guess? Especially with her callsign being missing from the list on the walkies? She's either been killed by something or someone beyond our understanding, or she's been taken away somewhere by something we can't understand yet until we know more.
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Minus the walkie, apparently. An interesting wrinkle, but one he has no clue how to make heads or tails of at the moment.
Besides, there are a lot of reasons to keep that kind of information to himself... for now, anyway. But he really doesn't think there's anything to be gained from sharing it anyway. Zam isn't hiding, and floating the possibility just seems likely to sew more chaos... which he's usually a big fan of, but not in this situation. He probably wouldn't have even been so blunt about the possibility of death if it had been anyone but Randvi, but Randvi is from a different time; she can handle frankness in a way most people on the island can't. ]
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[ Here he would smile sadly, if he could. Half-joking, but not without a sense of sadness looming over the joke, aware of the seriousness of the situation in contrast with the triviality of the ask. ]
Keep her shoes somewhere easy to reach. If she loves them as much as you say, if she does turn back up, then she'll want them when she needs you to come rescue her again.
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Yes, you're right. I'll do my best.