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[unobtainableredemption]

[Kaine had been trying to wait until Peter or someone got the consoles fixed, but that didn’t seem like it was coming any time soon, and he didn’t want to wait any longer. Taking a page from some of the others, he holds up a piece of paper with the same message written in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Japanese. His handwriting is sloppy, but he was trying his best to make it legible in every language. The only thing betraying his true feelings on the news he’s delivering is the way he tightly clutches the paper. ]

May Parker and Miles Morales have gone home.

[He holds it up for about a minute, before holding up a new page.]

Anyone with business with either one of them can take it up with me.

[He pauses for another minute, then holds up a third piece of paper.]

What’s a more secure way to talk to people?

[Another minute, then a fourth piece of paper.]

Want to talk about the shit going on. Not stupid enough to do it here.

[He holds up one final piece of paper.]

Open to suggestions.

[He puts the last piece of paper down and turns the feed off.]

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[alphatar]

[Korra's cheating by having a green letters come out of her ring to form English sentences.]

Met Miles, he's a nice kid.

[It lingers for a minute before fading and being replaced by more letters.]

I have an idea for communication, but it's really out there.

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[unobtainableredemption]

[Okay, the magical ring letters are new. He quickly scribbles his response down in English, ignoring the Miles comment for now because that's how he deals with most things--by ignoring it.]

We're on the back of a giant turtle, and you're talking to me using a ring.

Try me.

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[alphatar]

[Korra presses her lips together in thought, deciding whether or not to give her idea over the network. Both for security reasons and to avoid possibly embarrassing herself if it turns out to be a dumb idea.]

In person?

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[unobtainableredemption]

[Rolls his eyes.]

Yeah, I know in person's more secure, but I don't exactly have anyone in mind to say what I want to.

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[alphatar]

[Oh. Her. Raava. KAINE. After a painstakingly slow blink paired with an audibly interrupted sigh from the console, more green letter come out.]

I mean: Tell you the idea in person.

[backinakidflash]

[Bart is doing things the old-fashioned way as well, writing out responses and holding them out long enough for even the slowest reader to go over it half a dozen times.]

May's gone? Aw man. This blows.

[Bart sets down this first sheet and starts writing on a notepad again. Between video glitches, the feed shows definite humanoid ghosting behind him. A second sheet of paper is produced and held up, covering where the staticked form had been.]

Face to face with a telepath, technopath, and a white-noise machine using a written language that nobody else knows.

[unobtainableredemption]

You knew her?

[Sorry, as her uncle he reserves the right to not like you on prinicple. But he does eventually move on from that and hold up a second piece of paper.]

Someone watches too many spy movies.

[backinakidflash]

A little, but only from here.

[Holy overprotective Batman.]

Reads too many spy books, y'mean. You asked for secure. You didn't ask for easy.

[unobtainableredemption]

She's my niece.

From a different dimension or whatever, but still my niece.

[He's not used to his family liking him. He honors that by disapproving of their friends.]

You got anything that doesn't involve a secret decoder ring?

action; too bad she knows where you live...?

[werethatgood]

[ Knock, knock? ]

[unobtainableredemption]

[Kaine opens the door and turns back into his suit before bothering to see who it is.]

Parker, I told you I'm fine.

[werethatgood]

Less camera. Less relative to May, too.

You sure they're both gone?

[unobtainableredemption]

[He's got both of their webshooters in his sidetable drawer and a trunk full of costumes in the spare bedroom.

But as he doesn't know she knows, he instead picks up a framed photograph of May and her family, the one he found at landfall and gave her, and hands it to Cassie. There's two other photographs on the table--one of Kaine and his friends, and the other of Miles and his family. He still doesn't know why he grabbed it as he barely knew the kid, but he... he just didn't want the Kedan to take it.]

I'm sure.

Didn't know you were their friend.

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[nerdylilspidey]

[Peter's in Kaine's suite and up on his wall, hugging himself. He doesn't care if Kaine thinks he doesn't need comforting. Peter feels like he needs comforting.]

[unobtainableredemption]

Parker... Peter, get down. [His voice is uncharacteristically soft.]

[nerdylilspidey]

[He doesn't move.]

... I can't believe they're gone.

[unobtainableredemption]

[Stares at him for a few moments, hoping he'd move, but when he sees that's pointless, he climbs up there next to him.]

You're talking like they're dead.

[action]

[funkindofwicked]

[Tea isn't even going to bother responding to the post on the network because with it being broken the way it is, she sees no purpose in it. So she flies over to his suite, gives it a once around before knocking on his window before moving out of sight.]

[unobtainableredemption]

[Kaine moves over to open the window. As Parker already paid him a visit, he can guess who was knocking.]

I'm really not in the mood to fuck right now.

[funkindofwicked]

[She's leaning against the wall of his suite just outside the window's periphery. And when he makes that dumbass statement she rolls her eyes.]

Yes, because I spend all my time just waiting for the moment I can hop on your dick. And here I thought you had a useable brain a little higher up than that.

[unobtainableredemption]

Excuse me for being skeptical, but you don't exactly come around here for any other reason.

[everylittlegirl]

[Hayley matches Kaine's idea, holding up signs.]

Face to face?

[unobtainableredemption]

[Scribbles something down quickly.]

Is that a suggestion, or is that what you want to do?

[Because he guessed wrong with the last teenage girl who threw that one at him, he's going to not make an ass out of himself this time.]

[everylittlegirl]

[She makes a face, pondering, then writes.]
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Both?

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Don't know who to talk to.