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"JACK DAVIS"
"FRED MONROE"
"SHIRTLESS MAN ON 005"
"MISS C4 2015"



James Buchanan Barnes

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[darkart]

What you remember doing before and after the gaps the ship's made. I'm well aware of the specific memory loss all operatives have suffered since coming out of the hallways.

[lostsoldier]

you talk to the rest of my team yet?

[darkart]

Swan and Bishop, yes.

[lostsoldier]

then you know the gist of it. we'd found some weird paintings earlier in the day. i put up the last of the routers. comms were a little sketchy anyway.

[ among other largely useless and easily verifiable details. ]

[darkart]

Have you recovered any of your memory?

[lostsoldier]

not much.

[..that he's eager to share. ]

some kind of white light. it's hard to say if that's memory or suggestion, though. random neurons firing. plenty of things look like white light.

anybody else having better luck?

[darkart]

Yes.

[lostsoldier]

such as?

[darkart]

Personal information I've not been given permission to share.

In my opinion Shepard and Javik's last transmission is accurate to what you've experienced, but it's entirely possible further information will contradict that.

[lostsoldier]

so you think there's a real white room out there?

[darkart]

I believe there's something the ship is keeping us from. I believe Shepard was in her right mind when she made that broadcast. Whether it's a real 'white room' or whatever's appearing that way: yes.

[lostsoldier]

how about the rest, about the field agents needing to get back to it?

[darkart]

I would need to understand more about what you all experienced to say one way or the other. [ He trusts Shepard. But even if she was in control of all her faculties, she could still have been wrong. ] How do you feel about the prospect of going out again?

[lostsoldier]

into the halls? i don't think that's going to get us anywhere.

[darkart]

That's probably correct.

[ And, interestingly, seems to be an opinion the ops share. ]

Is there anything else to add you think would be of note?

[lostsoldier]

[ Nothing, for a beat. Then: ]

how many of xenogen's files do you have access to now?

100% private, talilock.

[darkart]

All of them. No locked files are available to anyone besides myself.

Xavier marked your case as closed.

100% private, talilock.

[lostsoldier]

but you read it.

100% private, talilock.

[darkart]

Yes.

100% private, talilock.

[lostsoldier]

[ Welcome to his hit-list— no, uh. ]

a few people mentioned hearing someone import to them. some of the spaces they went through were important, too.

mine weren't even familiar.

[ well. one of them wasn't. ]

so either it was a whole lot of bullshit, or whatever was behind that got at things even xavier couldn't touch.

100% private, talilock.

[darkart]

[ Have fun with that one, muggle. ]

Something powerful enough to have done all this could easily have fabricated things for you to experience. Perhaps even effortlessly. Bullshit is a possibility.

On the other hand, Xavier lacked finesse.

100% private, talilock.

[lostsoldier]

that's one way of putting it.

i take it that's a field you have some experience in? (telepathy, not bullshit.)

100% private, talilock.

[darkart]

Not as such. I'm a wizard, not a mutant. The magic I can perform manifests differently, and deliberately.

100% private, talilock.

[lostsoldier]

but to similar effect?

100% private, talilock.

[darkart]

It depends on the application. I can navigate another person's mind, should they permit it and circumstances are amenable. If you were to stand across the room from me I could not "read" your mind like a telepath.

Do you think you need further assistance?