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



James Buchanan Barnes

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[widowing]

so how about that drink?

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[lostsoldier]

wouldn't miss it.

think we can find a bar with any ice left?

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[widowing]

probably not, but maybe there's one where the refrigeration hasn't broken down yet.

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[lostsoldier]

i'll take what i can get.

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[widowing]

there's one on the tenth floor that's usually unoccupied, or at the very least quiet. meet you there?

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[lostsoldier]

sure thing. see you in 30.

text, backdated to 1/7 because I'm a scrub;

[2leftfeet]

Still alive?

[lostsoldier]

Mostly.

You?

[2leftfeet]

About the same

As I'm currently freezing my ass off, I take it you didn't find anything valuable either.

[lostsoldier]

Not even particularly interesting.

Your team make it back intact?

[darkart]

[ 'The Winter Soldier is due for a brain scan' is, among other things, something Severus thinks of when he sets about contacting this one; not that muggles with anger issues are particularly concerning, but Merlin only knows how cooperative he's going to be.

Still. He's going to go through everyone. ]

I'd like to speak to you about the reconnaissance mission.

[ No introduction or context. If Jack Davis is as dangerous as all that, Severus assumes he'll have kept plenty of tabs on people operating in his general sphere of activity. ]

[lostsoldier]

[ He does, and on Charles's acquaintances in particular some few cycles ago. Xenogen. 'Wizard.' This number's place on Shepard's roster is the most immediately relevant detail, however, and all told, he's not one to make a point of it, nor complain about skipping the usual exchange of introductions.

There is a delay before his response, but not long. ]

what about it?

[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?