Radio (Two days after the possession attempt)

[redlightgreenlight]

I'm sorry...I didn't mean for this to happen. I didn't even know it could.

[She sounds exhausted.]

And I know that several of you are hurting as a result of what happened when I tried to possess Tu Vishan...

[The fact that the other foreigners had seen the vision was distressing, she didn't like being used for anything, even if it was by a benevolent being. It was still just too reminiscent of Malicant.]

But the turtle is alive.

[Her voice is quieter now.]

And that vision...I believe it came from him.

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[bigdamnhiro]

That was you?

[Yeah, so that coffee? He sure as hell didn't sleep that night. Which is fine. He wasn't keen on follow-up visions. Still, he sounds mostly tired and can't even really be upset about what happened, it was just...disturbing.]

What was it? I mean, besides... [He swallows hard.] ...besides dying turtles.

And what about that makes you think the turtle's living?

[redlightgreenlight]

[Crap, even this tiny child had seen the vision and here she was thinking that she couldn't feel any worse.]

I'm sorry, Hiro...

[If she was having nightmares, then he must be having them as well.]

The one who killed the turtles is dead, and he can't hurt anyone anymore.

[She wouldn't tell him more about Malicant, but as for Tu Vishan.]

What I...we experienced was like a memory...but it wasn't a memory that any of us possess...hence it had to come from the Turtle. He couldn't share such a thing with us if he was dead...

[bigdamnhiro]

You mean Malicant.

[She didn't say it, but it's not hard to figure out. Hiro wasn't here for all that happened, but people have told him things, and really, he's a sharp little tack.]

...Maybe the turtle's alive. Maybe. [A beat. He swallows.] But have you considered maybe that memory didn't come from the turtle?

[What if Malicant's not as dead as you think he is.]

[redlightgreenlight]

[Malicant...It seemed that they would never truly escape his shadow.]

Malicant is dead, Hiro...I would have known if it was him.

[There would be no doubt if it was Malicant's memory, Malicant had a darkness that no one could match.]

[bigdamnhiro]

How would you know, though?

[Given the shitty lucky they've been having lately...]

[redlightgreenlight]

[She couldn't tell him how she knew. That she herself possessed a knowledge of the death and spiritual planes and could affect them. That if it had been Malicant, then she might have lost it entirely.]

It didn't...feel like him.

[bigdamnhiro]

Okay, fair enough. I'm not arguing with weird magic stuff anymore.

[It's just a thing now, he'll accept it.]

...You really think nothing like that is gonna happen again?

[redlightgreenlight]

I can't promise that terrible things won't happen, but I can promise that we will fight it, just as we did before.

[bigdamnhiro]

That's great, for the people who can fight. Not all of us are in on this magic junk and can fight back against weird mind-screwy dark forces.

[redlightgreenlight]

Those who can fight will protect the ones who can't, Hiro. That's how it has always been done.

[bigdamnhiro]

I really, really hope so.

[redlightgreenlight]

Sometimes hope is all we have, so hold onto it.