summoned can do enough damage without a coup happening that i'd wager you're leverage for someone. if you're not prisoners, what do you mean you can't get out
i left solvunn during the storms.
[ before all the, god stuff. and yinyue. and brother dirt, "cassian." he had a feeling, that there was a path open to him, and he took it without waiting for it to close. if you hesitate, you are lost. ]
[ they words slip out from his mind, half unbidden. dan heng stares at them for a long moment, before moving on instead to the OTHER topic ]
portal
[ you remember when the portals were acting fucky, right? when you looked at them and you knew, if you wanted to, you could get it to take you somewhere other than the creator's intended destination? ]
i wouldn't rule out deliberate imprisonment, then. proper seals for warding and binding need to be made with disparate interlocking elements to create different rates of decay in the secondary seals, and if those aren't in the safe room with you...
i knew it wasn't going to be in solvunn.
[ What's the worst that could happen, it dropped him in the ocean? that's a GREAT scenario thank you. ]
[ in the quiet, chaotic drone of thousands of people trying to find a space to rest for the night in the bunker, dan heng closes his eyes, and mentally pokes at the memory of the seals in scalegorge waterscape. ]
i don't know how much i can do without being there in person, but i will try
yes. my best theory is that because the portal in solvunn usually only goes to nocwich and cadens is almost directly in between the two of them it forced an early exit, like an interrupted warp jump.
theres no beds outside the infirmary, heard someone say something about the food stocks, couple walls aren't finished
[ is it airtight? he could check, with cloudhymn, to see where there's water vapor and if it can move, or not... and with most people starting to fall asleep, now's the tiem to do so. okay. sure. fine. give him a minute. ]
i can't tell if its airtight or not. looks like there's a filtration system so its possible but its technically in aquila so
[ another pause. while he was checking the size of the bunker, he was thinking about something. ]
i don't know why they bothered with the bunker if they already had portals to get people out of cadens, unless the military knows more about what the gas does than theyre telling anyone
its summer now, too -- there's no moisture in the air so we have no idea if it reacts with water either. it's too hot to move with an aerosol vapor right now.
i think so. they were adamant we go through "to protect evacuated civilians"
[ ...................................... MAN, FUCK. he is tired. dan heng's response is fast, words appearing before cassian even has time to finish his second message ]
i'm responsible for determining environmental hazards on planets with low human populations when the navigator picks landings, so i usually try to take it into account
[ would other people think to ask him about this? he definitely remembers blasting cassian in the face a few times with water, when the guy started looking like he was liable to blow to pieces at the smallest breeze, but that doesn't prove anything. notably he's not asking about DIRT in the cracks of the floorboards. ]
nobody's explicitly given orders expecting subordination yet... mostly just instructions and triage so far. but they locked us in.
[ It's easier to tell when someone is lying in person. You have the full context of their facial expression, their body language and the way their breath might hitch of stall. Text is harder.
But the speed at which Dan Heng's reply comes is telling.
And whether or not he chose to dismiss it at the end of the day, Cassian knew he had eight hundred years or so of getting to know someone who had effectively been his nephew. And that some of whoever they were still stemmed from a point of truth. ]
right you'll have to educate me more next time
[ Which is to say he doesn't believe him for a minute. But he'll let him keep lying. ]
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i left solvunn during the storms.
[ before all the, god stuff. and yinyue. and brother dirt, "cassian." he had a feeling, that there was a path open to him, and he took it without waiting for it to close. if you hesitate, you are lost. ]
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[ He doesn't kriffing know! He can shoot a man in the chest with a blaster, not pick magical locks. ]
what? how?
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[ they words slip out from his mind, half unbidden. dan heng stares at them for a long moment, before moving on instead to the OTHER topic ]
portal
[ you remember when the portals were acting fucky, right? when you looked at them and you knew, if you wanted to, you could get it to take you somewhere other than the creator's intended destination? ]
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we aren't getting answers from outside either. they're a little busy
[ The moment he reads 'portal', he connects the dots. And can't help but immediately think teenagers. ]
you walked into that without knowing what was on the other side?
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i knew it wasn't going to be in solvunn.
[ What's the worst that could happen, it dropped him in the ocean? that's a GREAT scenario thank you. ]
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[ In the Thorne's saferoom he closes his eyes and sighs. Heavily. ]
so you ended up in the free cities then?
[ Because by process of elimination, there's only that left. ]
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i don't know how much i can do without being there in person, but i will try
yes. my best theory is that because the portal in solvunn usually only goes to nocwich and cadens is almost directly in between the two of them it forced an early exit, like an interrupted warp jump.
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[ A beat later. ]
thank you, dan heng
it's a sound theory
but it was still reckless
[ Cassian, stop trying to brother hen every teenager. ]
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it was a very stable spatial distortion. easily the least disruptive one that i've ever observed
[ dan heng. no. ]
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[ Cassian!!! ]
you've walked into more than one unknown portal?
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a few. usually without any other choice. local authorities don't like to mess with them
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you're lucky nothing worse happened
[ And then a beat later - ]
did you settle in okay
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oh
or not
ok fuck it, sure ]
the bunker isn't finished, apparently
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is it finished enough so that the fog can't get in?
1/2.
[ is it airtight? he could check, with cloudhymn, to see where there's water vapor and if it can move, or not... and with most people starting to fall asleep, now's the tiem to do so. okay. sure. fine. give him a minute. ]
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[ another pause. while he was checking the size of the bunker, he was thinking about something. ]
i don't know why they bothered with the bunker if they already had portals to get people out of cadens, unless the military knows more about what the gas does than theyre telling anyone
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and if it's by the sea, the city has the advantage of wind currents
there might not have been time to get everyone through the portals
not that i trust the military
all of the summoned seem accounted for?
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i think so. they were adamant we go through "to protect evacuated civilians"
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is it knowledge from what happened to us or is it from before?
[ Don't think he hasn't noticed. ]
ah
so you're all a part of the military for the duration of this?
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i'm responsible for determining environmental hazards on planets with low human populations when the navigator picks landings, so i usually try to take it into account
[ would other people think to ask him about this? he definitely remembers blasting cassian in the face a few times with water, when the guy started looking like he was liable to blow to pieces at the smallest breeze, but that doesn't prove anything. notably he's not asking about DIRT in the cracks of the floorboards. ]
nobody's explicitly given orders expecting subordination yet... mostly just instructions and triage so far. but they locked us in.
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But the speed at which Dan Heng's reply comes is telling.
And whether or not he chose to dismiss it at the end of the day, Cassian knew he had eight hundred years or so of getting to know someone who had effectively been his nephew. And that some of whoever they were still stemmed from a point of truth. ]
right
you'll have to educate me more next time
[ Which is to say he doesn't believe him for a minute. But he'll let him keep lying. ]
it's better than leaving you to the gas cloud
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sure
[ it's getting late, though. this is a graceless attempt to leave the conversation before he sticks his foot in his mouth again. ]
i'm going to try to grab a dormitory before it's too late; let me know if you find out anymore information about the seal
fin! 🎀
let me know how you're doing and if anything escalates there