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『 Hey hey hey, iiit's Leia...! Sorry I missed you, but I'm pretty tied up at the moment--probably chasing my next story. Leave me a message and I'll call you back as soon as I can. Thanks! 』 [ beeeep— ]

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[cardboard_journalism]

[Myriam made no move for it... for now]

And then ViViD! And the train! And... and... that thing that made everyone really scared!

[she didn't even need her notes for that]

[journaler]

That's right!

[ViViD WAS A SPECIAL TIME... and the train. She could say a lot of things about that, though they're mostly personal and not very news-materialy. She frowns: there are a lot of things Myriam could be talking about here.]

Wait. Which thing do you mean?

[cardboard_journalism]

You know! The psychic... vision of... whatever it was.

[...everyone saw that, right? It wasn't Scuttlebutt going crazy...

...right???]

[journaler]

[Leia didn't see it, but Myriam isn't crazy. Well. In this specific case. Leia remembers, sort of--second-hand.]

...You mean LILITH?

[cardboard_journalism]

I don't know! Whatever it was... it was destroying something, or someone, else.

Maybe that was LILITH.

[journaler]

That's what IV said, at least.

He told me it was a dream, but that he wasn't the only one, so... maybe "vision" is more accurate after all.

[cardboard_journalism]

Well I... don't remember being asleep for it, so I think that's right...

[she'd reach for some of that juice, eye-ing it to align it with the slat she sees out of...]

[journaler]

[She frowns, but eyes Myriam carefully as she takes her drink. By now, she doesn't expect her to ever need help with that kind of thing... but you never know.]

I don't remember it at all.

[cardboard_journalism]

Kahk kahk... you don't?

...hm. Did anything happen while you were in ViViD?

[journaler]

[Leia had a different dream. Maybe that'll come up again, but for her sake, hopefully not.]

Well... it was even more of an adventure than usual.

I mean, for the most part it was the same. Fighting monsters, avoiding traps, trying to find the end of the mission... But everything was so unstable.

People would disappear out of the game sometimes, and my weapon wasn't right.

[cardboard_journalism]

Really? Was anyone hurt...?

["or worse," she left unsaid]

[journaler]

[... she doesn't know about "or worse," but she can answer the question with a decent amount of certainty.]

...Yeah. Something must have been wrong with the stimulus filter, too. People were actually bleeding, and the pain was real.

I helped out as many of them as I could find, but eventually I got booted from the game, too.

[cardboard_journalism]

That's really strange... Things that happen in a video game shouldn't carry over to real life.

[journaler]

I know... and I don't remember it ever doing that before. Could Mosley be the cause, or is he just trying to fix it, like he says...?

[Leia flips a page in her notebook and seems to circle something, as if to highlight it. It may be a point to focus on in the article.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Mosley? I got the impression he's just a goon... if that. Someone for the new CEO to bark orders at and give all the really menial jobs to.

[she'd reach for a drink of juice, then... set it back down, without drinking]

[journaler]

He was the one who made the announcement...

[Maybe she got too stuck on that. She taps at her chin with her pen thoughtfully, but shrugs.]

I guess it doesn't really matter, as long as we mention it. Things should be back to normal now... I'll check with IV.