video; post-infiltration (@inuyasha w/ @quickfish & @sonofodin)

[boxedcrook]

[There's video for once! The familiar brash, adolescent voice now matches with a (bruised) face: a screen half full of white hair, golden eyes, dog ears, and an incredibly sour expression. Does he have fangs when he talks? They look like fangs.]

If you're missin' a room full of people, I can tell you right where they are.

[It's hard to lean back when the comm device is attached to a necklace, but Inuyasha does anyway. Behind him is a crowded cell. Everyone's able to see some familiar Rost faces and Larson, some other civilians, as well as Hayame and Odinson.

Hayame, who looks shockingly less like a horse and more like a human, glares from afar, and if it could kill, it would have destroyed Inuyasha on the spot probably. On the other hand, it's a normal day for Odinson; he's indifferent to being stuck in a cell.]

I don't plan on rotting in here with anybody else, and this is all just pissin' me off. [This is, like, his preemptive warning to the guild or whatever.] We're two seconds away from busting out of here, and I don't care how we do it.

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[forcevisions]

If we treat people like they're expendable, we're no better than them.

[kisha]

... we do not have to be better than them.

None of us signed up for this to be better.

[As far as she's concerned... they all had their selfish reasons for being with Hathaway.

It was just whether people were willing to admit it or not.]

[forcevisions]

Well, I want to be.

[ Hayame's right, of course. Rey had signed up for selfish reasons stacked on selfish reasons. But ... those reasons had come and gone. She's not clinging to Keith or Urahara anymore. She knows the truth about her parents — she's always known.

And with all that laid bare, she sees how Poe and Finn could come in with much more generous incentives, and she's ready — when Drakstaden over — to commit more than ever to a new one. To the idea that yes, she is here precisely to be better. To learn how they can make something better than this exact clusterfuck in her own galaxy. ]

[kisha]

[... wanting to be.]

As your-

[She has to force the words out, they're so unfamiliar and contrary to what she has always known]

As your friend... I am asking you. Just do not jeapordize the mission.

[But it seems she cannot ask more than that.]

[forcevisions]

[ If it comes down to the mission or her imprisoned friends, Rey ... isn't sure that she'll be able to choose the mission. A better Resistance fighter could, maybe. But no. Even Poe wouldn't do that, and he's the defacto Commander of the Resistance.

It hurts to have to consider. ]

I want the mission to succeed to, Hayame-san. [ But you're more important. ] I'll be as careful as I can be.

[kisha]

... ah.

[Until the mission can afford for them to be exposed... she'll wait. Then either they come... they go... or they die.

That's all.]