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[wearyallalone]

Messages, correspondence and private exchanges with Vanya Orlov.

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[wearyallalone]

I'm glad I was there, though you held your own. I'm sure you'd have done the same if our positions were reversed.

Are you healing alright?

[armd]

'Course. (Not even a question.)

Yup. Derrica did most of the work for me. You saw somebody too, right?

[wearyallalone]

I'm fine.

[Honestly, impossible to tell whether that means yes or no, in context.]

Though I admit I was relieved to hear we won't have a Crow contract outsanding on the entire organization indefinitely.

[armd]

Me too. I can't live like that.

(It's supposed to be a joke but it's kinda too real, so... the whole thing falls flat. She mutters,) Not that it's any better around here.

[wearyallalone]

Are you getting attacked in Kirkwall regularly enough it didn't feel like a change?

[That's ... somewhat alarming.]

[armd]

... No. (Can you imagine,) I mean the- nightmares, and stuff.

[wearyallalone]

[He sounds, briefly, embarrassed.]

Oh -- Yes, of course.

Though at least as far as I've heard, the nightmares aren't actually lethal, so they have that advantage.

oh god sorry for late

[armd]

They're gonna become lethal, (Abby mutters,) because I'm gonna jump out a fucking window if they don't stop.

(A pause, while she realises she's being needlessly dramatic.

She'll follow up lamely.) ... D'you think it's related somehow? The nightmares and Antiva.

you're all good

[wearyallalone]

I don't know.

[It's a frank answer, if not a helpful one.]

But if anything ... Antiva was a relief. At least for me. I was having them before, and I've had them since, but I don't remember having any nightmares while we were there.

[armd]

... You're right, (Abby concludes, with a wrinkling of her brow. What's far less clear is,) What does that even mean?

(Some kind of shitty magic, or-)

[wearyallalone]

[Probably some kind of shitty magic.]

I would guess that whatever is causing the dreams isn't natural. They're so widespread among our colleagues and they seem to be tied to a physical location. But I don't have the knowledge to guess how such a thing would be done.

[armd]

Neither.

(Stewing, for a moment. Then, lamely,) I guess Research is probably already on it anyway, huh. So we just have to wait it out. (rrrrrrr)

[wearyallalone]

Probably. I do imagine it's a priority though; you can't run a military operation if all the personnel are sleep-deprived.

I regret, though, that I'm just as in the dark as to the particulars as you.