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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]

<sub>[This strikes M.K. has a wide-reaching question, beginning to slip outside the bounds of immediate need. How did he seem...?

Well. M.K. would be lying if to say he's overjoyed to think about the last time he saw the other boy in person, less because of Riku's state and more because of his own. Riku isn't the only one who'd been seeing people close to his heart and done something he regretted.]</sub>

Seeing things, like everyone else. Why?

_{[Say what you will about Beacon, it doesn't discriminate in its mind games--everyone gets a turn.]}

[webshoots]

Because maybe he went somewhere, maybe he did something because of what he saw. [ beat. ] Not out of the realms of possibility, right? Which could give us a clue as to where he is now.

[ there's a moment of silence, punctuated by the brief sound of movement, then— ] Listen, I get it — someone hiding their identity on the network and leading you with vague comments that Riku's okay and that they know where he is, that's an issue, but you don't know if they're telling the truth.

[ wait. ]

Uh, I mean— you don't know that they've even got Riku, and they haven't give you much to go on. So if we start with what we do know, maybe we can figure the rest of it out.

[darkeyed]

Then give me something to go off of that isn't a what if. Because that seems to be all anyone else has so far.

_{[If his tone grates with impatience, it's not Peter's fault.]}

Right now all I know is someone's either telling the truth about seeing him or they're lying--either way, that's something we don't need.

_{["We." He has a habit of leaning on that term liberally when it suits him and discarding it when he doesn't. In this case, he thinks they have a collective common ground. A number of people want to see Riku unharmed, and someone who'd keep that sort of information about one of them out of the majority's hands does no one good.]}