VL121R | Text | Night 20

[meadqueen]

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.

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text | DI481O

[salamanca]

I hope you don't mind if I ask what she left behind? Was it anything she came here with?

[meadqueen]

Her shoes are still here. Why would she have left without her shoes?

[Sorry dude, she's in distress. This might take a minute]

[salamanca]

[ It's cool! Lalo is used to dealing with people in crisis! Usually it's because he himself caused the crisis, but hey.

He has all the time in the world. ]

I know this is alarming. Shit, I'd be losing my shit too.

Would you like to switch to voice or is text easier for you?

[meadqueen]

Text, please.

[She was just nearly struck by lightning, her voice is shaking too much for audio]

She can't have died. She was getting better.

TO994M; text

[cactusy]

Where were you when it happened?

[meadqueen]

There is a group of us waiting out the storm in one of the longhouses at the airfield.

Most of us were asleep, but aside from Kokichi they sleep near one another.

[cactusy]

wandered off into the storm, maybe

[meadqueen]

Without her shoes?

[cactusy]

you said she was getting better. was she sick? feverish?

[meadqueen]

No. Her arm was amputated before she arrived here, but the wound was clean. She was getting stronger.

[cactusy]

then we shouldn't rule out foul play as a possibility.

[meadqueen]

I don't know. There are five other people sleeping out there. No signs of a struggle. Why not kill all of us?

I tried to look for her out there but any tracks are long gone.

[cactusy]

we don't have a solid idea of who our enemies are or what their motives are, do we?

[meadqueen]

No.

There was no blood, her bedding was not disturbed, her shoes are still here but everything she arrived with is gone. I don't know what it means.

The one out there who has killed us fires a warning shot first.

[cactusy]

the first time i was killed, i was attacked by multiple people from multiple directions.

i'm saying we don't know enough about the situation to assume there's no reason for them to have taken her, or for them to not have gone after everybody. you guys should start lookout shifts.

[meadqueen]

Yes, you're right.

[K had been doing that, but of course he's not here right now]

To come here in this

Lightning struck very close.

[salamanca]

[ They can stick to text, then. ]

Tell me exactly what happened.

[salamanca]

What the fuck are you doing?

[ Come on, lady. He's not even a real cop and he knows this isn't helpful. ]

[meadqueen]

[There’s a long pause as she tries to pull herself together]

Last night, the people staying with us gathered in the main area of the longhouse to sleep. I was in my own room, adjacent.

In the morning, Zam was gone but her shoes were still there. They were so annoying, she loved them. The bedding was undisturbed and no one else noticed her leave. I tried to contact her and her callsign is gone. I went outside and searched for an hour.

[cactusy]

how sturdy is the shelter?

[cactusy]

i'm not trying to upset her, but it's a possibility, especially if she was sick or not thinking straight.

[salamanca]

[ He just waits. ]

Thank you, Randvi. That's very helpful.

The good news is that we can rule out wandering off into the storm. She wouldn't leave her shoes behind, in that case, and I'm sure someone would have noticed her leaving. If nothing else, the bedding wouldn't be undisturbed if she'd left on her own.

You said Kokichi is by himself?

[salamanca]

Don't you think we should get all the information about what happened first before we start scaring people with "possibilities?"

[ It's lucky Randvi has a good head on her shoulders and is unlikely to fall apart — perhaps something Shaw was counting on as well — but on someone else, a comment like that could have rendered them hopelessly panicky and useless for getting Lalo info here. ]

[meadqueen]

It is old, and there is not much that we could do about any loose roof panels, but we reinforced it as best we could once Martin spotted the storm over the sea. Senku checked and it is grounded against lightning strikes.

[meadqueen]

Yes, he remains nearby as we see him during the day, but he sleeps on his own elsewhere.

[She has her suspicions since she's the one who found the office in the other longhouse but she's not about to put it out there if someone is picking them off]

He’s afraid of me, I think.