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[cargojet]

You've reached Senator Nathan Petrelli. If I'm not answering your call please leave me a message, and I'll get back to you just as soon as I can.

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[cargojet]

Erik, thank you. Can you forward me the message?

[sorrycharles]

[ Erik accommodates with a copy of this message. The content of his reply is not included. ]

[cargojet]

Appreciated. Do you need an explanation?

[sorrycharles]

is there anything you haven't already reported

[cargojet]

Shepard's team missing. Further people missing unassociated. Suspicious cries for help from people who shouldn't usually need it. Pursuit of those people. Mysterious doorways. We've had mysterious doorways around here before: doorways made of light and loved ones beckoning.

[sorrycharles]

why do you think it allowed us off onto arima

[cargojet]

It knew without question that it had the power to bring us back.

[sorrycharles]

[ Over an hour passes before Erik messages again. ]

has anyone ever passed through the door

[cargojet]

A woman in a dream did. Matine. She saw her mother, shot her friend, passed through the door and disappeared.

[sorrycharles]

but not one of us

[cargojet]

That we know of. People disappear all the time, but you're right, none of them have come back to tell us they walked through a light door if that's what you're saying.

[sorrycharles]

i don't know what i'm saying

[cargojet]

In any case, we don't know if that's what they're facing.

The network post isn't one of us.

[sorrycharles]

the only certainty is that we'll do exactly whatever it wants

[cargojet]

It's certain. Imagine how it'd turn out if I went on the network and said nobody can go and rescue their friends, the strong, brave friends they have who have risked their lives and now they've called back begging for help. That's going to go down great.

But we can do this on our terms. I intend to fight it.

[sorrycharles]

i've imagined

and i understand that no other course of action is less likely to end in chaos.

[ AND YET... ]



i suppose i prefer it when the ship is trying to kill me anyway

[cargojet]

It beats another round of chess. You up for it?

[sorrycharles]

naturally

[cargojet]

Three hours. I'd say get some sleep but I'm not sure it'd make the slightest bit of difference.

[sorrycharles]

i'm sure i'll find some use for the time

[cargojet]

I don't know what's creepier: the messages from people lost in the ship or that.

[sorrycharles]

i'll see you in three hours.