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Haaaas anyone seen Enjolras recently?

[Fletch's concerned face appears on the console. He's frowning down at a file.]

Come to think of it, Dove's MIA, too. [Damn. He scrubs a hand over his face.] If anyone's seen them, can you get them to contact me? This is putting a huge strain on the Guild.

Uh, just a heads-up that we might be a bit overstretched until we get this sorted.

Thanks.

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[She had steeled herself. Making sure to keep the video off so that nobody would see the slight redness to her eyes. In case it was as notable as the last time she looked in a mirror.]

He's gone. Enjorlas.

He...went home.

Oh.

[And you can't really hide loss from someone who's experienced it, Midii. Even in voice. That pause tells him all he needs to know.]

You were close to him?

[He was like a big brother to me. A very verbose big brother, but one who understood her all the same.]

I'd known him since I was a little girl. [Which both did and didn't answer his question.] He was one of the few people from the same country as me, living a similar life...just from a different point in time.

I'm sorry.

[Despite the words being sincere, they do sound practiced. It's something he's had to do on quite a few occasions, especially working in the ED.]

I heard... what... will happen when he goes home. If there's anything I can do...?

So am I.

[Because she remembered as well. A depressingly similar far to that of Gavroche. And Eponine.]

...I'll be alright. It's not the first time I've lost somebody here. It's not even the first time I've lost somebody from that same world.

[That world, though. Not her world.]

We can... Do something? A memorial? I didn't know him very well, but... A little something, if that's alright?

That's kind of your to offer, but...I don't know if it's necessary.

There have been so many. Including people that I never even met. It would be fair to set something up for one and ignore all the others.

Right... yeah.

[Fair enough.]

That makes sense. Uh... We haven't been introduced. I'm Nurse Fletcher. I work at the guild.

[She nodded, even though he wouldn't be able to see it. Habit.]

I remember you. From the Network. You're the one who told us about Milyn.

[Her voice run of familiarity and...little else. No emotions, positive or negative, to give away on that subject.]

I'm Midii.

Uh, yeah. Yeah, that's me.

[And there's quite a bit of emotion in Fletch's voice. Sadness? Regret? Maybe. It's a bit mixed.]

Nice to meet ya. I wish it would be under better circumstances.

[She actually gave...was that a chuckle? An ironic one, perhaps, but something very close to the sound of small laughter emerged from her end.]

You might be surprised at how often I hear those exact words.

...or maybe not.

Well, hopefully this won't be a trend

[Too Late]

Yeah. Me too.

I wish...I mean, I remember back in the day, there used to be...other things happening where new people could meet. Happier times. Before the whole business with Malicant.

[Of course, she'd been young and pretty antisocial in those days...okay, maybe she was still something of a wall flower even now, but she was far less paranoid and willing to at least talk to other people. Including face to face.]

I remember...a lot of people liked those times. They were nice.

Well... We can try to bring those times back. At least the meeting new people part.

That part never went away.

I know...people wake up in a different place than we used to, but I can't remember a time when we went very long without new faces showing up.

Yeah, well... There's no harm in trying to get together a little gathering, yeah? I mean, sure, there's the Welcome Centre, but... Something a bit more. Once a month, or every two weeks.

Do people really gather at the Welcome Center, though?

I thought it was mainly a place to get information.

[She seldom went there herself, since she already knew enough about Keelai on her own.]

Yeah, well, that's my point. There's no real... meeting going on. People show up, go to the Welcome Centre and make awkward posts on the network and boom... they're just sort of left on their own.

It'd be nice to have somewhere to go, to meet other people in a bit more of a controlled space. Maybe we can get local businesses interested to see if people can get jobs easier.

I don't...think we've ever really done anything like that?

[There was a small 'hmm' on her end. Contemplative.]

There would be parties sometimes. Mostly for holidays. Those would always have the most non-local people gathered in one place at a time. Otherwise, we've always mostly done our own thing until we had to go fight Malicant once and for all.

Well, I think it would be a good idea. We haven't got this huge impending doom... We could give it a shot?

You can if you want to. I doubt anybody will even try to stop you, so long as you're careful.

I mean, I've never planned one of them before, but I know it takes a lot of work and coordination. And money for food and to rent a place large enough to hold everybody comfortably.

Yeah. That's kinda... Something that needs to be planned. I mean, I have enough stashed away to maybe do it once or twice.

I'll think of something.

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