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Oh, this place didn't have what they needed to fix Beetle? Made sense they'd have to go where the parts were, but was was splitting up a good idea? They still had no clue where any of the other Wayfarers had gone... There was still so much to do, though, and Leaf did have a promise to keep. And at least now they were somewhere they knew they could find a ride back to Sojaveña, so it wasn't like it'd be impossible to return.

It felt bad leaving without being sure Beetle was okay first, but Sada, however confused she might be, was their best (only) shot at getting better. And Jade would be there for them, she'd make sure they were okay. Beetle wasn't the only one who maybe needed someone there for them, though.

"You... are you gonna be all right, Jade?" Leaf shot a meaningful look at Virga.
 
Jackie Cat said:
"Acknowledged," replied Sada, with a friendly smile. "Everyone else—it was a pleasure making your acquaintance. I wish you the best of outcomes as you pursue your objectives. Let's go, Jade and Virga!"
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Jade instinctively took a few steps after Sada, but then pivoted back to the others. "Hey, uh, good luck. I hope you find what you're looking for." Whether that was the answers they were seeking, or in Leona's case, a way home.

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"You... are you gonna be all right, Jade?" Leaf shot a meaningful look at Virga.
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Jade followed Leaf's gaze and gave her a grateful look. "Thanks. I think I'll be okay." She wished she could privately add 'I dealt with a lot worse when she was Lugia,' but that wasn't an option with Betel offline. Her eyes drifted to Betel's shell, and she steeled herself.

"We'll send word once Betel's fixed. Er, that is... we won't need to send word, cause you'll hear it from me directly." She forced a grin before hurrying after the professor.
 
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"I'm registered as a delver now. You guys can tag in on my next trip. Just, uh. Buy your own shit first, yeah? I'm not exactly flush with cash at the moment. We set off first thing in the morning. So get some rest while you can."

She glanced up and to the east, grimacing.

"If we find Auriga, maybe you guys can ask her about that ominous fucking star that showed up around the time you vanished."
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Gladion waved a talon as Leona finished going over the procedural stuff. “Should be no problem, yeah.”

It took a moment to sink in. That addition. That… “Wait, rewind for a second there, the fucking what now?”

He didn’t wait for an answer before starting to stress about it. “That’s bad, that’s really fucking bad. Powehi is going to kill us. Potentially literally, if we disappear overnight that’ll be why. He probably just doesn’t know we’re here yet. But once we sleep, once we dream, then…”

If they died while Betel was down, could their safety still be assured? Probably not. But given how sensitive the situation sounded, he doubted Powehi would want to wait. (He’d started, at some point around when Powehi had joined him and Articuno in that base camp near Terminal One, started considering him a loose friend of sorts. Now, he was beginning to believe that had probably been a mistake.)

If it was for the good of the world, did he even have any right to object? No. He didn’t. And that unnerved him more than anything, the idea of having to sit down and accept his judgement.
 
...oh yeah. That guy. Uh-oh.

Leaf stared at Gladion, mind racing as she tried to sort through his panicked rambling. "W-why would he be mad at us? I didn't do anything." That was even at least ninety-nine percent true, this time. (Something digging through her mind searching searching searching for something, someone to hold on to, but it didn't matter because no matter how much she might've wanted it or not nobody had come. It was plainly obvious that Minerva or Mewtwo or Dad or actual Red or whoever was not here.) "I don't think you two did anything. And Jade sure didn't want Virga to show up." Beetle was the one who'd done... whatever this was, but only because the Coven had forced them and they'd tried to stop something even worse.

"Look, if this is anyone's fault, it's Director Neo Whatsisface's. Powehi gets bent out of shape at us, we just tell him to go find that guy. And if Lorrel really is... stuck between reality or whatever, I bet just tearing him out of there with full Amida firepower would've done something bad, too, so it's not like Beetle intervening made that much difference." Probably. Hopefully. (Powehi still didn't know how to find Beetle, right? Just in case?)

"We don't even know for sure that this is bad!" She had to stop herself from saying 'or even related', because even she knew their luck didn't work like that, and forced a smile instead. She turned back to Leona, totally calm and composed and sensible and only a little like inside she was trying desperately to convince herself that that was true. "Just tell us exactly what you saw, what happened."
 
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