[homophonic] catchall for netzach

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NETZACH

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...you okay, Nahida?

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[she nods again]

It just feels... I want answers about what happened, too. Especially to Setsu. They shouldn't have died... but Valerie shouldn't have, either. [...] And I know we all got those messages about Simon, but I keep thinking about how Amelia and Livio must want answers, too.

[abstractart]

Yeah, I know. He was still their teammate, they've been hanging out with him for a while...

It's not that I don't want to help with all of them, just... Alex seems to feel like they're not going to get much help for some reason.

[dendroculi]

[her brows furrow at that]

But why wouldn't they? I would expect Simon's case to be the one most people don't look much into, given the messages we received...

[abstractart]

I don't know. Maybe she's just still feeling off from yesterday.

[dendroculi]

Maybe...

[she sighs]

...they really had a rough time of it this week.

[abstractart]

They did. I...

No one should've had to deal with that place.

[dendroculi]

..."that place". So it was based on your experiences, like the one I went on was based on Shenhe's?

[abstractart]

Yeah. It was the place I worked before the Library.

[dendroculi]

Oh...

[yikes.]

...it feels - almost invasive, having people go through these things. It's bad for them, of course, but...

[abstractart]

Mhm. They said they met me there, too.

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They did...?

[huh.]

[abstractart]

Apparently. It sounded like they saw my old self, though, not... me as I am now.

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[she tilts her head to one side]

"Giovanni"? Or...

[abstractart]

Nah, still Netzach... I was pretty different, in the company. I'm not proud of how I was, but... I think I've gotten at least a little better.

[dendroculi]

...it's who you are now and who you'll become in the future that's more important than who you were in the past, I think.

[...]

Which isn't to say that's unimportant. The person you were then still helped to shape you, those experiences led you to become who you are today... but...

[abstractart]

...I like to think so, yeah. There's still a lot to make up for, but-- we're doing what we can.

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[she nods]

One step at a time.

[abstractart]

[and now he's just adding 'friends getting dragged into the hellscape' to that list but it's. fine.]

... hopefully, what they've been dealing with since they got back won't last through tomorrow. Weekends are hard enough already.

[dendroculi]

They are.

[she sighs]

...this sort of thing isn't meant to be easy. I just wish it didn't have to be harder than it needed to be.