Re-Entry 12: Spam/Video

( Backdated to the end of the flood, spam for Dean )

[Private to David 8, Aaron Stack, and Aya, later]

[He's calm by now, although he looks a little pale, a little shaken. He's smoking, because he can again, and now he definitely has a reason to.]

Can I ask, did that at least... change anything for you? Is anything different now? [Please, gods, don't let him have gone through this for nothing.]

[Private to Iris, today]

[Things have settled back down, but he still craves his distractions, the freedom from having the free time to dwell on everything that's been happening. What's more, he craves the work. The science. He'd never say that Narvin leaving has left a hole in him, but there's definitely a space he needs to fill.

Still, he wrestles with this call for a while before making it. He doesn't hate Iris, but that doesn't mean he doesn't hate some of the things she chooses to be. Like a force of chaos.]

Hello. [Pause.] I was... wondering if I could talk to you about the lab. With Narvin gone, I mean.