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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]

That's what I'd like to know. And that's why getting our hands on the QUEEN file is extremely important.

But when I asked a hacker to check into it, she said that it's already been deleted from the CERES files.

[zerotohiro]

Just because it was deleted from the CERES files doesn't mean they didn't move it somewhere else. We've just gotta figure out where that somewhere else is and I think that's probably our next goal. We find where the back-up files are, we'll find a whole lot of other stuff, too.

Where's that hacker now?

[psycholawgy]

She's in the Nexus Code.

[zerotohiro]

There's a lot of people in that code we need to rescue. It's another project I'm working on, how to break into it. How're we going to do that?

[psycholawgy]

That's a tough one. Even I don't know how to get to the Nexus Code.

But it should be like the recycle bins in computers, right?

[zerotohiro]

Yup. I think so, anyway. That means it's probably more obvious than we think. A bunch of people were drawn into it a few months ago weren't they?

[psycholawgy]

I was there! We all started disappearing, too. It was so scary.

[zerotohiro]

But you don't remember how everybody got there or where it might have been? Nothing? [A beat.] But I bet it was pretty freaky considering it's where all of the data goes after they don't need it anymore.

[psycholawgy]

It just became dark... that's all I can remember before we found ourselves there.

[ she switches widget's computer feature on, again, and scrolls through some photos. she was pretty traumatised by the whole thing, but when she had gathered her bearings and started investigating, she managed to take some photos.

what she'll click on and make hiro see if a photo of a bunch of dropped characters hanging in mid-air, seemingly dead. it's not a very pretty sight. ]

[zerotohiro]

[Oh good. That's not disturbing at all and he's just staring...and his eyes widen suddenly as he seems to recognize someone he wasn't sure he'd seen before.]

Athena, can you zoom in on this one? [Long blond hair? That's gotta be a coincidence, right?]

[psycholawgy]

[ doing what she's told!! ]

Do you know her?

[zerotohiro]

[With that zoomed up view he's taking the device from Athena's hand to get an even closer look before there's a frustrated little noise. When...how? Why didn't they know this sooner?]

...yeah. She's part of my team back home. Her name's Honey Lemon and I...Tadashi never said she was here. [Which means it must have been between the first and current time they were here.] Our friend Wasabi's inside there, too, but I didn't know anyone else was.

[psycholawgy]

[ hiro can either try to take widget off her neck, or just flip the hologram to face his way!! whichever! but the necklace switches off the moment it's off athena. ]

You know Honey Lemon? She's so cool!

[ she can't say anything about wasabi, though. she doesn't know him! ]

[zerotohiro]

[And this is why you don't tag when you're trying to leave because yes, it sure was Widget they were looking at and not the CereVice. Anyway! The point is he's now staring at the blank necklace and his eyebrows are furrowed together.]

She's from our world and she went to school with me and Tadashi. When was she here? Do you remember? How long was she here?

[psycholawgy]

I don't recall that she was here for long. Probably two weeks at most?

[ mosley would likely call her another footnote. :( ]

[zerotohiro]

[Well we all know Mosley's a jackass :( But that answer's also unsettling.]

Which means she's been stuck in there for a long time...I gotta find a way to get her and Wasabi out of there. And anybody else we know, too. Wonder why Mosley didn't tell Tadashi that when he asked him about us.

[psycholawgy]

[ ah... ]

He can be so talkative through text, but that guy's socially awkward, you know?

[zerotohiro]

Well so am I and I can still give answers to people. [Hiro why would you tell someone you're socially awkward, what's wrong with you.] Maybe I'll text him myself and see what he says about that part if you're going to focus on the other stuff.

[psycholawgy]

You'll tell me what he says, won't you?

[zerotohiro]

Only if you'll do the same.

[psycholawgy]

That goes without saying!

[zerotohiro]

That's all that matters. [He hums under his breath, suddenly inspired by something else.] I should get back to the shop, I've got a lot of things to figure out now. Keep in touch though.

[psycholawgy]

Alright.

You'll definitely be one of the first to know about what Mosley tells me.