networkinthenight | [audio] @silver; Backdated to the fifth [open]

[Someone had been around the docks when...all of that happened, broken an arm, and spent the following days snugly shut up tight in her house. Not a weakness she wants on display, of course, but she's angry, and having been in no useful condition for supply-regathering isn't much of a boon to her pride. But a handful of days shut up are little better.]

Couple things, just, quick.

Couldn't stick around the ferry and people's chief concern seems to have been food, which is fine, but I'm wondering if anyone got gardening supplies, and if those made it? I've mentioned it in passing to a handful, but especially given the exact worry I had was just proven right, no excuse to not be proactive anymore. We have good gardening types here, and it's better for the town as a whole if we can set a couple plots up...immediately? Fast as possible. A couple of small greenhouses are kind of a must at this point too. I'm not really up to building and clearing condition right now, so anybody brave enough to turn soil and move rocks and handle basic construction, drop me a line. People I talked to before, uh, the same I guess? We can divvy up who goes where, five people per square foot's a bad spread of resources.

Second thing - I'm getting the impression nobody's liking those flowers very much. [She's...largely unperturbed. Distressingly accustomed, at this point. Were the month not getting off on such a broken foot she'd be amused.] If it's crippling and you're desperate for something, stop by and I can give you a little cone to breathe through. Plague doctor-style, but tiny. Cute. [Deadpan:] You'll look like little birds, and it'll smell like pine.

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They're going to end the world if we don't get back there and stop them. Literally end it. Billions of people will die for nothing.

Billions of people are dying where I'm from, and I'm not going to cut and run on everyone else. I can appreciate you might have some altruism there, but you gotta temper it or you'll die before you get there.

For the record? Gut feelings, no sun, weird energy all over the place - I wouldn't be shocked if this place isn't some kind of limbo. Time might not even be moving there while you're here.

[That's the second time Crowley's been told that in so many days. It's a little unnerving.]

We don't know that.

We don't know otherwise.

Hell of a chance to take on a hunch.

Hell of a lot to people to risk murdering on the same.

We took a risk. It would have been worth it if we could get out.

Possibly. Your guess isn't better than anybody else's.

Also could have imploded the ferry and everyone on it when you got too far out to the water, and Robin might have had the rest of us violently murdered. Even if you did get out, even - still no way of knowing any of us would be intact on a return trip.

Really great, having someone everyone trusts so much with their finger right over the "murder" button. Makes me want to stay here even more.

The solution to that ain't 'get me and mine out and leave the rest to die'. I don't get the impression she likes it - all the old-timers said it pretty clearly: we're here to fix something, as a unit. Holding off isn't the worst crime, but cheating everyone else out of resources and putting them in danger is selfish.

Rock and a hard place. Deep breath. Be the bigger person, walk all this off, and keep productive until we all have an out.

If you think Aziraphale would've just left everyone behind you don't know him at all. That was never his plan.

Not talking about him, talking about you, since a read on him doesn't make me think it was his idea.

Doesn't mean it would have made it back, or we'd have been around even if it did.

Dangerous. Short-sighted. For everyone, your lot included.

So for his sake too - don't lone wolf it.

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