caughtinanetwork | 1 ♐ Voice ♐ A brief check up

[Wow, Darkleer is actually communicating with the network on a whole for once instead of being a miserable hermit. Must be a special occasion. Does anyone know his wiggling day?]

Now then. Have we all cleansed ourselves of the mess and done whatever strange death rituals foreign species feel the need to do?

[Okay, maybe it is just Darkleer being a coldhearted dick. Eh.]

I believe we should focus on the more important matter here. I have seen discussions scattered throughout the network, but it would be best to have all our thoughts and speculations focused in one place on both the destruction of those so-called faeries and on the recent appearance of that Carol individual.

For those of you who are oblivious and prone to missing the obvious, things are changing in this place. It would be best to be prepared.

[Don't be fooled, he's not doing this to be nice. He's doing what any troll knows to do: looking out for himself and the few he cares about. If that means even faintly working with others, well, he'll learn to deal.]

[Also, that's all the network is getting from him. Click goes the camera!]

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[Darkleer hesitates before sending this one out, although his voice is just as stoic and stern as ever.]

Since your children in particular seem to be taking this badly, perhaps it would benefit you to know that those things which followed us were nothing more than mere robots. The technology may have been organic in nature, but it was still nothing truly living. No pain, no loss of life.

That's all.

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[She smiles at him, quite obviously bouncing a little in spite of the fact that she's sitting down, a very different troll from the one who's been moping around Vatheon since she arrived.]

Thank you! I'm so furry happy! Now I can visit you at your hive when I go ofur to visit Equius and Gamzee!

[Translation: Darkleer will one day be waking up to a kitty troll sitting on his chest, waiting to play. There is no escape.]

[While he won't admit it, seeing her in such a mood is a much better sight to see.]

I will make sure to keep an eye out for you, then.

[But Darkleer doesn't know how to play! Nepeta, don't make this any more of an awkward disaster than it's already going to be.]

I assume everything else has been going well then?

You'll see me fur sure!

[Or well, he'll see a green blur zooming around and chasing chocobos and sitting on Equius' head, mostly. AND HE WILL LEARN HOW TO PLAY so help her.]

Oh, yes yes! ...except fur the poor fairies dying. Tavros was so upset.

Yes… He’s not the only one.

[A sigh comes through the speakes.]

Him and the Cavalreaper have been both taking this exceptionally hard. They’re too soft-hearted.

[True, Darkleer thinks that of most of the trolls here, but them in particular.]

I don't think that that's a bad thing.

[Nepeta shakes her head, and then pauses a moment before speaking again.]

Tavros' lusus used to look a bit like a fairy. A fairy-bull. That's why it's extra hard fur him.

Well, you're young. I don't think you quite understand just how bad it can be.

[Well, that is new information.]

That explains something then.

Yes, I do! It doesn't matter how old you are on Alternia, you know that, it's even easier to get culled as a wriggler than it is when you're older and that's saying something! But there's not a lot of us left now. We can afford to be nicer to each other.

[Nod nod nod.]

He was furry fond of Tinkerbull, so it purrobably felt a bit like losing him all ofur again fur him.

[...Anything he could say to that would come off as unkind, so Darkleer stays silent and just focuses on something else.]

He just asked me about the robot I made for Gamzee, as a matter of fact.

Ohh Gamzee showed that to me! It was pawesome! I taught it how to purr and then we went fur a ride on its back!!

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