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Valdis ([personal profile] redlightgreenlight) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu2016-03-17 06:37 pm

Radio | March 14th

I have something to tell you all, and some of you might not believe me.

[Valdis' voice is hesitant, halting and uncertain]

There are very few of us left, it seems, who remember Malicant's reign or the atrocities committed by his followers. The death, the taint, the drugs and the suffering inflicted upon foreigner and Kedan alike is unknown to all of our newcomers. But this isn't just about that.

[A long pause, followed by an audible breath]

I have recently discovered that Milyn, the Cherrywood Healer, was involved with the Cultists. She reported directly to Daseng and created the drug known as Dust, as well as the base for Lucid.

[Another pause and then a low growl.]

She was our only ally among the Kedan when we first returned from the Dreaming, she aided us in defeating Malicant...but she also helped him wreak his havoc in the first place.

[Another growl]

I don't know about all of you, but I can't trust her anymore.
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...I remember that.

And I remember fighting her over it, too. My blood...I didn't want just anyone having access to it. Because of my magic.

[Though now she couldn't remember if she'd ever agreed in the end. Or if there were any signs Milyn had taken some of it anyway while she had been out.]
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say it calls a lot more than that into question.

How did you even find out about this? I know she tends to ramble endlessly on her quiet days, but even she wouldn't just abruptly blur out "oh hey by the way I was totally working for the evil prick who tried to kill you all and Asti a few years back" out of the blue.
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
And how'd your source find out?

I mean, I've been hearing a lot of whispers going around lately...it's not hard to figure out something's up.
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Sixteen years...that was...far, far longer than she'd been in Keelai. Than anyone she'd known in the past had been in Keelai. Which meant all this went back way farther than any of them could possibly know.]

So what made them change their mind?

I mean, if Milyn herself confirmed it, we know they weren't lying. But...and maybe this is just because I've hung out with too many paranoid people over the years--[Some of it rubbed off on her.]--but I have to wonder why this is all coming out now. Because this kind of would have been useful to know...you know...four or five years ago, when we all first arrived here.
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Who was that?

[...wait.]

If he was murdered then...

[Her eyes narrowed in dark suspicion. She had a hunch, and she did not like that hunch.]
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
So he faked his death, then?

[She was still suspicious. Valdis was being a little on the vague side, and this was serious enough that she wanted to know as much of the details as possible. Given the things she had seen and crossed through over the years.]
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey, she was the one who made the initial broadcast.]

Anything I can help with?

I was here longer than most anyone else still around. Maybe there's something that could jog my memory of the earlier days.
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
I almost wish I could say I had.

[Hindisight was 20-20, after all.]

Most of us knew she's a little...out there at times...but I kind of assumed after the final battle that, the way she looked after us and helped us out, she was on our side.

Now you've got me wondering if she was maybe the reason why we were stuck in that realm for an extra year before we finally woke up again. Especially considering all the trouble that caused us for a long while after. I mean, the locals blamed us. They thought we abandoned them. It was like they had no idea what had really happened. Does that mean she could have told them and purposely didn't?
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-18 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
She's not wrong. Exactly.

[About grey areas. Zatanna had spent the last four years learning that much the hard way.]

...I mean, except for the whole betrayal stuff. That, she's absolutely wrong about. And I don't blame you for not trusting her anymore. I'm not sure I do, either.
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[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2016-03-19 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Blurring the lines for the sake of the greater good...maybe...but this didn't sound like the case at all. Zatanna nodded her agreement.]

Neither can I.