004 ✞ (AUDIO)

[unetrustworthy]

[The morning everything first went crazy, Midii was unaffected.  She checked, just to be sure.  There were no bodily changes, no strange new abilities, and she felt like herself.  But there were Network posts advertising those less fortunate, and from the sounds of things, it wasn't going well for many.  So she decided to stay put.]

[Today, however, she wasn't so lucky.  From the moment she woke up, she knew something was wrong.  The kind of wrong that actually required her to ask for help:]

I need clothes.  Please.  I have money, and can pay you back.

[There was a momentary pause, and a low groan could be heard in the background.]

...is my stomach supposed to hurt like this?

[Her voice might sound familiar to the select few who were around her enough.  Only deeper.  Older.  By nearly ten years.  And if that wasn't enough to hint as to who this was over the Network, she didn't block her address.]

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[grayatonement]

Maybe I can help.

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[unetrustworthy]

How?

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[grayatonement]

If I can learn what makes it work, then I can stop it.

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[unetrustworthy]

...why would you want to help me?

['Why should I trust you?']

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[grayatonement]

You'd be helping me. I would understand how it works.

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[unetrustworthy]

[That...was actually the most reasonable answer he could possibly have given her. Wanting to help her in order to help himself. She was willing to believe that.]

Alright.

What exactly do you want to know?

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[grayatonement]

It's easier in person. I want to know what it is you can do. Then I can look at it, discover how it works, and hopefully take it away.

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[unetrustworthy]

Me?

[She glances down. Was he referring to the whole suddenly-an-adult situation she'd involuntarily gotten herself into.]

But I didn't do this.

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[grayatonement]

I wasn't referring to that.

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[unetrustworthy]

Then what are you talking about?