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[psycholawgy]

You've reached Athena Cykes. I'm currently unavailable, but leave a message and I'll get back to you pronto. Danke! (voice/call → text → video → action)

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[psycholawgy]

Weren't you brought to the library late at night? I know a couple of us were.

[zerotohiro]

You mean to fight the zombie-skeletons? Yeah, I was there. I punched a couple of them in the ribs. My only question is where did they really come from? We never got an answer, did we?

[psycholawgy]

Good question. I have no idea. :(
Maybe we should investigate the library!

[zerotohiro]

Korra and I did, but a second sweep wouldn't hurt to at least figure that part out. And my friend Kon found some interesting stuff on the library books.
...not sure it's something I want to talk about on the network though. You busy? You might wanna hear this.

[psycholawgy]

I'm at work, but it's not very busy. What is it?

[zerotohiro]

The cosplay cafe, right? Give me fifteen minutes and I can be there and tell you about some stuff I learned about that library.

...can I have another macaron?

[psycholawgy]

Nah, I'm actually at the medical facility right now. :) Room 606.
No macarons here, but I do have chocolate-coated biscuits.

[zerotohiro]

...close enough. I'll take them. I'll see you soon!

[And true to his word it takes roughly fifteen minutes for him to book it from where he was at to head for the medical facility. He comes rolling up to room 606 wheeling behind a little red suitcase and hoodie zipped up.] Athena?

[psycholawgy]

[ with a push of a button, the door to 606 slides open, revealing athena's little clinic. it's a cozy place with a lot of couches and bookshelves - kind of like what you'd normally see in a living room. athena's seated on a wheelie chair, but she gets up and heads towards the door to welcome her guest. ]

Hey there, Hiro. Need help?

[ that thing with you seems pretty heavy! ]

[zerotohiro]

[It's not a bad little place. He's actually a little curious about what books she has lying around and he has a lot of questions suddenly but...those can wait. He tugs on the suitcase again but shakes his head, grinning even as she gets up and walks toward him.]

I got it. I've been lugging him around for most of the morning. There's a reason he's on wheels. [He pauses then.] I didn't realize you meant you have an actual office.

[psycholawgy]

[ if hiro's fine, then she'll go serve him some tea and the biscuits she mentioned! the tea is some fruity black tea - tastes like berries. ]

Neat, huh? If I didn't become a lawyer, this is what I'd be totally doing full-time.

[zerotohiro]

Which is what, exactly? Intimidating people with giant books? [While Athena's doing that, he's parking his suitcase next to one of the couches and wandering to examine the spines of the books. He'll claim his tea and biscuits in a bit.]

[psycholawgy]

[ she shoots him a look before crumpling a piece of paper and throwing it his way. ]

A psychotherapist, silly!

[zerotohiro]

[Guess who's just going to bounce the paper ball off of his hair and then juggle it with his knees as though it were a real soccer ball? THIS GUY. Eventually he stops though.]

I didn't think you were actually serious when you told me you were a psychologist. [She'd mentioned it a while ago but. It's Athena.]

[psycholawgy]

[ ah... ]

What?! I'm always serious!

[ okay, that's a lie, but she's always serious when it comes to psychology! ]

[zerotohiro]

Always? [Athena plz. But he wanders over because the tea smells delicious and he's going to make himself comfortable on a couch.] Jury's still out on that one. How secure is your office, by the way? Patient confidentiality and all that.

[psycholawgy]

No cameras, [ except the ones in their eyes, of course. but she refrains from making a comment on that. ] I guess the only person who'd spill anything would be me, if... you know, I wanted to lose my job.

And don't forget Widget!

[ ah... if any secrets were to be broadcasted, widget would be the first to spill the beans. ]

[zerotohiro]

[He grins a little.] How could I forget Widget? But...that's good to know. You might wanna sit down. There's a lot of stuff going on I think you should probably know.

[psycholawgy]

[ YOU COME INTO MY OFFICE AND TELL ME WHAT TO DO—no, but athena sits down, immediately putting on a serious expression. even during her trials, she has the gall to make funny comments, but it's just so different when it's here in cerealia. what's serious is actually serious—and she has to do her part, too.

so, yeah, no wisecracks from her for now. ]

Alright. I'm listening.

[zerotohiro]

So...we've got a lot to cover. Do you want to hear about the stuff we found out about the library books first, or what Tadashi and I found in the CERES tower a little over a week ago?

[psycholawgy]

What?! You went into the tower?

No fair!

[ WIDGET STOP TALKING PLS THIS IS SERIOUS. ]

What did you find?

[zerotohiro]

Nothing as interesting as what we found the first time, but just as weird. [He's going to dig into his bag he brought with him and fish out a notebook and pen, quickly sketching something from memory.] Six of us went in but we all got separated. Katsura, Hinata and Celty went to one part of the tower and Hiccup came with me and Tadashi. Hiccup ended up going down in an elevator and Tadashi and I went up and found this really old terminal. So we turned it on to see if we could get a transmission going.

[Here he turns the page to her, showing her almost an identical drawing of the masked alien.] Does this guy mean anything to you?

[psycholawgy]

[ athena squints her eyes and bends forward to get a better look, but it doesn't register. ]

I've never seen him before. [ she makes a face. ] Creepy, though.

Did you meet him?

[zerotohiro]

I'm pretty sure "meet" is too strong of a word. It's more like he saw us, showed us a few letters, disappeared, came back when we started the transmission again and then just...[He quiets.] ...it made this really awful sound. Like. Imagine like a dinosaur being run over by a train and the train colliding into another train on the tracks and metal twisting and everything falling apart in a huge inferno. It kinda sounded like that.

Tadashi and I can't figure out where it came from. I was hoping maybe you might have an idea since you've been here so long.

[psycholawgy]

[ hiro, you are so descriptive. ]

Sorry, I've never seen him or heard of anything like it before.

... This might be something new.