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[darkeyed]

_{[It's rare to see the owner of this un opt for the network over saying whatever he needs to say in person, but in this particular case, he can't go around asking everyone...]}

Has anyone seen Riku? Guy with silver hair. You can't miss him.

Let me know, thanks.

_{[Quick and to the point. But then in a perfect world this would be a quick and to the point mystery solved.]}


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_{(OOC: After this thread, M.K. has taken pictures of Bruce's texts and posted them below his original message. Oho, you thought he hadn't learned his lesson about making copies of important documents, but he did.)}

Someone here has an idea of where he is and is hellbent on hiding it from the rest of us. If you have a way to track someone down, use it.

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[darkeyed]

Sorry, did you think you have a choice? I'm not giving you one. I'll believe that when I hear it from him. I don't know who you are, and I'm sure as hell not about to trust some message on a screen.

<sub>[They're already full up on people who think they can hide behind texts and speak for other people and her name is Robin. To Bruce's slim credit, his diction in his stonewalling is easier to follow than hers, so there's that.

The irony is, he hadn't been worried Riku was unsafe as much as he is now.]</sub>

If he's fine, you should have no problems proving it. Unless you have something to hide.

[pearlstrings]

If I'd done something nefarious, contacting you directly to tell you that I'm involved seems like an odd decision.

I can appreciate your concern, but the answer is still no.

[darkeyed]

So does saying you know where he is but refusing to say where, or what's happened, or proving if he's even alive.

_{[Or anything else of value, really. He'll take "oh, hell no" for 500, Alex.]}

Let's get something straight: I don't care who you are, or what kind of game you're playing jerking me around. I'm willing to bet you're not the Lighthouse Keeper. And I doubt you're Will, he doesn't strike me as the type to bother with something like this. That makes me think chances are you're probably someone with a tablet and a connection to the network like the rest of us.

_{[What matters is this--]}

I want to know where he is.

_{[And as he demands it, he decides it at the same time. The more wrong this feels, the more determined that decision becomes.]}

You can either show me you're telling the truth now, or I'll tell everyone else one of us knows and isn't saying. That guy's made friends. What do you think's going to happen if they think he could be in trouble? They'll find him. And if he's not all right and they think you had something to do with it, they'll find you, too.

I hear the Lighthouse Keeper's not a fan of us turning on each other.

[pearlstrings]

I don't say this with cruelty, but what you want doesn't matter to me.

He is, at the moment, my priority.

I respect that you feel you are doing what seems necessary. If you're willing to threaten a civil uprising and possible reset over his privacy, it gives me even less reason to believe you have his interests at heart. Only your own.

[darkeyed]

I'm not threatening anything. You are. All I'm doing is looking for Riku--if you're going to stand in the way of that, go ahead.

_{[The sudden emergence of steel in his voice, low and dark and dangerous, where before there had only been heat illustrates the difference between M.K. giving someone a last chance and M.K. making a real threat.]}

But if anything's happened to him, you better hope I'm not the one who finds you. You'll pay, I swear it.

[pearlstrings]

Then yes, I suppose in this instance, I am standing in your way.

And you've done your due diligence. I've been warned.