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[11calls]

[Alex, for her part looks entirely exhausted. She still hasn’t recovered from everything, but then again when does Alex Reagan actually sleep. At least her makeup is back so the circles below her eyes aren’t as noticeable as they could be. Sitting in her office on the sofa, Alex has a big gray pit-bull arranged over her legs like a blanket, and she’s absently petting him while she speaks.

Which honestly? She kind of doesn’t want to do it. But this is Alex Reagan, and news is in her blood. So here they are.]

So yeah. This is weird I guess. I’ve been trying to process a bit, but I want to put the story together as much as I can and I need to hear from you guys to do that. From what I know so far, at least from what we’d investigated before everything went back to normal. Or normalish I guess. This definitely still isn’t normal. But there’s no other way to say it.

It seems like the people who went missing, the 237 of them? They weren’t real people. As far as I can tell they never were. Harry Dresden used magic to check if they were, and they weren’t. I was, and I’m assuming that the people who are here still are. But all of their possessions are gone, the missing people’s I mean. We found some of their journals and things, and it was basically just words written over and over. Their voices disappeared from recordings too. I don’t know why.

Max and Laurie and Jon and Annie are gone, but their things are still here. I guess that means they’re coming back? I hope so I mean anyway.

[Alex just shakes her head and brushes the heel of her palm against her forehead.]

I know that for me at least when we went in to talk to the Sphere, it offered me basically a happy ever after if I turned on all of you. I didn’t obviously. Did the rest of you have the same sort of conversation? I. It’s weird. That’s all. It’s just weird.

[Alex is just going to sigh and move on. Because lord this is a lot. But she also know that her own experience isn’t just what happened. ]

I know from Beverly that people going to try and restart things at the power station ended up needing to face nightmare-like things. What else did people need to do?

[A pause and then.]

On a different note, I know that it’s not like an official festival or anything like the sort that we’d normally have here--or at least did I guess--but back home today would have been Thanksgiving. I’ve spoken to some of the restaurant people, and now that the food is back, and the power is on, we’re going to do a sort of… spur of the moment thing tomorrow. People are welcome to come if they want. And to bring things from home for celebrations or whatever. They’ll be things like turkey and pie and potatoes and stuffing. What’d you expect obviously. I hope to see you all there. If nothing else, we deserve a chance to reconnect from things over the last to months.

Um for anyone new here, or [More disturbingly] if you’ve forgotten or something, I’m Alex. Alex Reagan.

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[toivory]

[Sansa is so glad to be back in her dome with her wonderful wonderful boyfriend. She's actually in their bed right now when she speaks to Alex, the peachy straps of her nightgown visible under her long red hair.]

We'll be coming tomorrow. It's been too long since we've had a cause to celebrate.

[She pauses.] Did I tell you of my ex-husband? The one who thought me clever?

[11calls]

It really has been, honestly. And I've always loved thanksgiving. It's just a good reason to get people together and eat.

And yeah, you told me about him.

[toivory]

Absolutely, last year was so lovely, I'm glad we can do it again.

He was who I saw, when I spoke with the Sphere.

[She shakes her head] It was absolutely uncanny. Down to comments about his sister and the wine. So strange.

[11calls]

Yeah. The Sphere was very much like Richard honestly. I almost kissed it with relief thinking that it was him before it set me straight honestly.

[toivory]

Goodness! Really!

[She has to laugh, just a bit.]

May I ask what the Sphere said to you?

[11calls]

It wanted me to sell the people here out. It offered me a happy ever after with Richard back home if I would just chose myself over you guys. It even offered to send us to a place where the we'd not caused the possible end of the world. But I wouldn't do it. I'm going to stop what I'd started, but I'm not going to damn you guys to do it, and frankly it was stupid of the Sphere to even suggest such a thing.

[toivory]

That's exactly what it offered me. My family, alive. I couldn't do it, either. No matter what I wanted, there are so many more people here than just me.

I could never be so selfish.

[11calls]

No. Which honestly makes me wonder if that's the point: if the Sphere could make things so bad for us and for the people that we love that we end up turning on our core values and whatnot. It makes sense but I just hate the idea of it that someone might have.

[Alex hasn't talked to Richard yet about it, but if there's one person who she knows would save her over the fate of others, it's him. He's lost too much and too many people for him not to do it.]

[toivory]

Unfortunately, there are many who would. Cersei, for instance, would not have hesitated, if it meant getting her children and her brother back.

Even Joffrey.

[11calls]

Yeah. I know that there are people who would, but it just kind of doesn't feel like that's representative of the people here, you know?

[Even if Alex suspects that Richard would have done it to save her if he'd needed to.]

[toivory]

No, it's not. Everyone here is all working together. There isn't a single person here I can't stand.

[11calls]

Me either. Not anymore anyway.

[toivory]

Anymore?

[11calls]

I had some disagreements with some people who were here before is all.

[toivory]

So not the story I'm hoping to get?

[11calls]

Not really. They just were kind of an asshole. And like. Not in the good Richard asshole way.

[toivory]

There are different sorts of ways to be an asshole?

What's the difference?

[11calls]

Yeah. I mean Richard’s being an ass comes from a different place. He’s not mean. This guy was mean and he hates everything that wasn’t from home and stuff.

I mean it was when we first got here which I think made it all the worse.

[toivory]

Ah. I know the two sorts, then.

At least he's gone.

[11calls]

I was pretty glad to see the back of him honestly. It was kinda a lot the way he just kept picking fights with people. Including the kids here.

[toivory]

Including the children? Seven hells- children?

I'm sure Beverly wouldn't have any of it.

[11calls]

Who do you think it was?

[toivory]

Honestly, I'm not sure. I've never had any terrible experience here with people. Save that Max fellow.

[11calls]

Oh no, my bad!

[Alex just shakes her head with a little laugh.]

I mean who do you think that guy tried to be an asshole to? It was Beverly.

[toivory]

What! No!
Beverly's an absolute... [Wait. Hold up. Beverly was an angry teenager with a lot of issues and Sansa loved her so much.] Well, she reminds me of Arya, as I've always said.

I hope she proved him wrong.