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// un: silent

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[morethan084]

[Who knows how long it's been. Hours, days? It's hard to keep a sense of time down here. Either way, she's checking in with the others.]

how are you doing?

[callada]

Holding up. Bored as hell, but nobody said jail was supposed to be fun. How about you?

[morethan084]

same

i desperately need a shower

guess the whole free from sin thing only extends so far

[callada]

That's how these places always are. Do whatever you like until you threaten the power of the people in charge. And the more powerful they are, the less they like alternate points of view.

[morethan084]

hey

We tried to knock and they pretended to act like they weren't there by suddenly turning the lights off in the house

[callada]

Normally that results in you walking away from the door, rather than them sending a team of extra-powerful police to put you in chains.

Otherwise, good analogy.

[morethan084]

Not in my case

I just break down the doors

[callada]

Yeah, so I've learned. Guess every approach has its place, though, one way or another.

Some just work better than others.

[morethan084]

Yeah, well, usually they don't have power dampeners ready when I do things like that.

[callada]

Yeah, I should have expected that. It's common enough stuff back home, seastone. This isn't the same thing, but it kinda works similarly. Somehow I've just never had it actually used against me. And then the last few worlds, they weren't exactly as prepared as this one.

[morethan084]

Law told me about that, it's seriously messed up

i've had an inhibitor implanted in my neck before

i'll take this over that any day

[callada]

In your neck? Don't blame you for preferring this. I'll take it over seastone too, power loss is better than feeling like I might fall over and pass out any moment. You saw what happened in that water.

Wonder if our powers come back the moment these are off, or if it takes a few minutes. Might want to prepare for that if that's how it goes.

[morethan084]

i can fight without them

i didnt always have my powers

plus i have my gun

[callada]

Good. I do too, and a few other weapons. Still wearing that Taeum armor too, actually. A little unusual leaving us with most of our tools at our disposal, don't you think?

[morethan084]

exactly

which means he's probably not actually working for her

i mean, you heard the guard

they even tried to call him out on it

[callada]

I can think of more reasons than one that he might leave us with them. That's the simplest explanation, but maybe it's some kind of Taeum honesty test. Until we know more, don't assume he's working against Angrial. Could come back to bite you.

[morethan084]

do you really think they care about honesty at this point? we've already made it clear they can't trust us

[callada]

I think my point still stands, though. We don't know much about this place or these people. Keep your guard up.

[morethan084]

havent let it down