AUDIENCE 🚀 ANISE TATLIN

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W5 MONDAY

[dropoffs]

[ They are in the simulation room! But at the moment nothing is put on. It looks like they're working on a datapad, though.

What does little Anise need. ]

[sexyasmieu]

Hi, Callisto!

[ greeting them with a bright smile! ]

What are you doing?

[trenchant]

Running diagnostics on the simulation room to see if it needs to be calibrated again.

[ It is... Work. ]

Did you need something?

[sexyasmieu]

I just wanted to talk to you! It's been a while, and you seemed really busy last week? Since you were like, really hot on that Tesseract mission and all.

[trenchant]

It was important that we won it...

[ Frowning as he thinks about last week. ]

Labs-R-Us.

[sexyasmieu]

... What about them?

[trenchant]

... They were a nuisance with a suspicious number of employees, obviously toying with us.

[sexyasmieu]

Hmm, so you don't think they were serious bidders?

What's suspicious about their numbers?

[trenchant]

... If we were to deduce all that has happened from different communication channels, those lost are still somewhere with us.

Their number would have added up neatly.

[sexyasmieu]

Whoa...

[ math. ]

[trenchant]

[ Yes, math. He just looks down at her. ]

[sexyasmieu]

... I guess the numbers weren't exactly the only weird thing about them...

[trenchant]

... All of you are weird, but they were exponentially weirder.

[ Yeah. ]

[sexyasmieu]

Hehe, well.. you've got that right. On both counts. A lot of them looked like weird, blurry versions of us...

[trenchant]

Do you have an opinion on that?

[sexyasmieu]

... Well, I don't think it was a coincidence...

[trenchant]

A number of you must be joyous... It'll bring comfort to those who want it.

[sexyasmieu]

... But how do you feel about it?

[trenchant]

Why does that matter to you?

[sexyasmieu]

Well, first of all, I'm really nosy. ♥

[trenchant]

You'd gain more from simply asking questions or else I wouldn't give you anything to stick your nose in.

[sexyasmieu]

I'm asking one now, aren't I?

[trenchant]

... Ambivalent.