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My name is Wanda Maximoff. I have met several of you.
I have seen some of you die. Some of you have seen me die, as well.

We are, I think, intimate — if not consensually.

[ she attaches her dimly lit picture, taken near the church. a slow, measured breath, then she continues in her low, but confident voice, angled just so by her Eastern European accent: ]

We are here to survive, and we all know there is strength in numbers.

Trust is not given freely, it is earned, yes — but neither should we make sweeping generalizations about each other's competencies, young or old, when we each come from such unique... and uniquely horrifying... worlds.

[ the softest tapping sound accumulates in the background; her fingers, rarely ever idle, are dancing along the edges of her tablet as she runs through the paces of her message. ]

Winters spoke strongly of resets. I think about it each night. What drives them, if there is any reason or logic behind them. If they are not merely whims of the lighthouse keeper, then let it not be this:

Let it not be us, dividing into factions and turning on each other out of spite and fear, vengeance and guilt, carried past our deaths into this purgatory. Young, or old, or without classification. [ here's lookin' at you, five. ] We will only die again faster this way, festering in mistrust.

[ in this moment, she wishes perhaps more ardently than ever before that steve were here — he knows the power of a call to arms, how to be the tree that does not move, the liberating thrill of speech — despite how glad she is that he is not a victim with her. her captain, her beating heart, her family. ]

Each project will always have its own team.
But we shall try to be one town, yes?

I think we can.

Threaded | Flat

This is a very inspiring pep talk.

( he only means that half sarcastically. )

Are you going to suggest we all join hands and sing Kumbaya next? That's the natural progression of a message like this, isn't it?

( it's a good message, in all honesty. )

Unification between so many different people is going to be difficult.

Well spoken.

[ Brienne doesn't know how to trust anymore, and there is at least one person in town she is convinced she will never be able to, but that doesn't make Wanda any less right. ]

Edited 2019-07-22 19:12 (UTC)

That is very wise, I hope many here take it to heart.

Are people turning on each other already? I was under the impression that many were working on exploration. Perhaps I have missed something.

[his tone is entirely too suave for this]

Advocating unity preemptively? It's almost as though you expect us to find a reason to go for each other's throats.

oh, i never really asked about the resets

what'd he say?

you want to train together?

[ #priorities. ]

[ Strength in numbers. It's a message he can finally get behind. Refreshing, even, when it doesn't matter the world he's in, the same blockades and obstacles try to get between people with the drive to do something good with the time they have.

Riku's heartened to see he isn't the only one who took the message of the resets so seriously, that they may be here on the most borrowed of scant resources, time, that if they're found wanting they might be discarded into oblivion.

She's enviously eloquent. He both admires and covets the way she just puts into words the things he feels, persuades with them instead of brutely bludgeons. ]

Yeah. With attitudes like that, it can happen.

[ Being unified under one purpose. In a fairly rare twist, he offers his name without being prompted: ]

I'm Riku. Not that there won't be challenges-

[ Considering what other conversations have taken place... she points out the possible points of contention, so it's not like she says this with blissful ignorance of the realities of a diverse group. ]

-but considering the alternative, I think we've got all the incentive we need to make it work.

Foolish words of hope.

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