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Did I? I had never left his body before.

[ A considering pause. ]

It's possible the camera captured my after-image, my spirit, by accident. It had happened a few times in the past. Sometimes technology has a way of seeing thing that aren't supposed to be there.

Like when people get blurs of weird lights on pictures and think it's ghosts. Huh.

[ he doesn't mean to sound that skeptical about it, but it's naturally the way he regards it. heropa has changed a lot of things for him, some slower than others. there's a silence that settles, thomas chewing at the inside of a lip, the busy functioning of his mind coming through in the connection. ]

I want to help you guys. If there's a way, a safe way, I'll try to find it.

I'm wondering, though, if maybe you can help us. The Hornets, Vanir before, I guess, have become a terrorist group now. They've been harrassing imPorts and natives, causing massive explosion - the Nonah bullet train, and I think three building fires. Is there anything you can tell us about them? What they want, who leads them, how we can find them? So far, what we've found, only led us to a set-up.

I'm a ghost, Thomas. Not an all-knowing being.

[ He laughs at his own expense. Sorry Thomas, it's been so long since he's been able to converse with anyone and you're a charmer. ]

I had heard rumors about the Hornets before I passed. There was no evidence to prove they existed, so I had written them off as an urban legend the public invented. Your comment implies they do exist. Is this true?

[ Quisma does manage to sound concerned about that fact. ]

The Vanir, while I had no leads, were always terrorists. Not so radical as these so-called Hornets if they are really responsible for what you are describing; they were always careful not to sign their work.

Worth a try.

[ they're hurting for more information, so he'll take what opportunities he can. ]

Yeah, they've shown up a few times, claimed the name 'Hornets' and everything. We went to try to find a base in Brycha, but they were expecting us, and left us a riddle instead. It solved out to three locations, but they'll see us coming at all of those.

[ walking straight into a trap, and with power nullifiers, that's not going to be a good time. they got lucky at brycha. ]

You knew Miguel Rodriquez, right? He's one. They picked him up after a raid the Hornets did on imPorts in Maine.

Rodriguez?

[ A soft hum as he mulls over it. ]

Rodriguez... Rodriguez... a reporter, yes? He's one of those Hornets now you say?

Right. In his trial, he was talking about his articles getting pulled - stuff on Holiday's coma, the original imPorts going home, and the 2008 Death Island incident.

[ he pauses here, then backtracks. ]

Which you wouldn't know about. Did you hear about that through Holiday? Seven imPorts died trying to fight someone with a 'Death Ray'. Caused a huge argument after, and by 2010, all imPorts were getting sent home.

I don't know him personally. I believe we met once.

[ Sal is quiet for a while. Maybe too quiet.

But no, he's still here. ]

I don't know all the details. What I do know is... sparse. Things I've overheard during Parc's conversations.

But it's true, then? All the imPorts went home for a time?

[ He sounds saddened by it. ]

Mostly. Some heroes where unaccounted for. Hold on a sec.

[ he doesn't have his notes directly in front of him, but he doesn't need them, just a moment to sort through his memory, picture the notes page in his head and read straight from it. ]

Liana Greenwood (Rocket Gal), Hernan Soñè (Nova Man), Eric Strauss (Sidewinder), Song Ki-duk (Sunwing), Deepali Bhatnagar (Shakti), Biance Medina (Ironess), Liam Lawson (Siberian), Veronica Conway (Nitestar), Benjamin Braunstein (The Shield), Richard Peter Wayne (Black Arrow), Phillip North (Thunderfist), Eleni Wang (Athena), Joshua Kirby (The Eagle) and Adelaide Watson (Liberty Girl).

All labeled missing. Some we've followed up on. Lawson, we know, is around, but his family isn't talking about it. Not sure, beyond that. [ Something Kate had felt a particular level of guilt over, and Thomas's voice is a bit more solemn in regards to it. ] Some of the Hornets mentioned Lawson in particular.

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[ He talks slow and quiet now: ]

Ah, I remember the cemetery now. Some of those graves... yes. I'm sorry, sometimes my memory is not as it should be.

... Joshua. [ It comes out pained. ] He hasn't been located?

[ There's another pause before he gathers himself. ]

I recognize some of these names. Soñè, Strauss, and Ki-duk are imPorts. Is it not possible they were sent home in 2010? It might account for their disappearances, though the others...

This is troubling indeed, Thomas. I was not close with them, but I knew of their work. Wayne, North, Wang... all good people. Medina as well. And from work experience, people who are missing usually have a good reason to remain as such, or...

... something may be terribly wrong.

The Eagle? Not that I've heard of. Someone else might know.

[ he makes a mental note to ask Kate about the name later. ]

Possible. They were all on a list Ananke gave to Annie Leonhart, an imPort. [ annie and kate had been more focused on that search than he had. there was something about north at one point, but thomas doesn't remember it coming up to much. another thing to ask kate. ]

What would they need to hide from?

After the death ray incident, native heroes accused the military of setting up the situation, sending the imPorts in as some kind of plot, then more accusations were sent back to the native heroes accussing them of sending out imPorts to investigate it, seeing as Continuum would bring them back if things went screwy. From what I heard, native heroes started going into retirement, and some of the public took it as an admission of guilt. Might have something to do with that?

If you hear anything, will you please tell me? I am not sure how much longer my form will hold, or if I'll be able to see you again so soon. I can feel-- [ His voice fades suddenly, the rest of his sentence impossible to parse. ]

--ut... can you... --mise me, Thomas? That you will try.

And I'm afraid I can't... --ive you any answers about ... incident. I'm sorry, Thom-- but I don't be-- I'll be of any help --ere.

[ halfway through, quisma's dramatically fading and cutting out, and thomas has the urge to physically reach out to try to grab him back, as if it would actually help. just as he's talking about his form being unable to hold. an urgency fills him, and he rushes out the last of what he can say, hoping it actually gets through. ]

We'll figure it out - I'll find you again, I promise, just hold on! Keep Holiday holding on.

--ank you, --mas.

Be care--

[ The warbled voice fades entirely, leaving Thomas with his own thoughts again. ]

CAPTAIN HOLIDAY ⥛ contact

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aaaand in the right account this time

it happens <3!

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thanks a bunch for threading this with me!

np!