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[psycholawgy]

[ RING RING. IT'S YOUR FAVOURITE AMERICAN.

probably. ]

Rei, do you have a moment?

[faithfulflame]

[Second favorite. Hiro's technically American too.]

For you? Always.

[psycholawgy]

[ shoves hiro into a ditch. ]

You got a mask too, didn't you? What does it look like?

[faithfulflame]

I have one that's following me, yes.

[Why is this becoming a theme? Merlin, Rise, the girls...]

Mine started out plain, but now it's got feathers. What about yours, since I assume you have one as well?

[psycholawgy]

Mine has cracks, even though I never tried to break it.

I was wondering if you could sense anything from your mask?

[faithfulflame]

Cracks? You didn't break it...Where did you get it?

[Oh boy.]

Also no. I can't. It's not spiritual or enchanted in any way as far as I can tell. Which worries me.

[psycholawgy]

That's what I'd like to know. The cracks just appeared.

And I see... I'm worried, too. I feel like something bad is going to happen very soon.

[faithfulflame]

Where did you get the mask?

[Rei can't quite keep an edge out of her voice, tone reedy with worry.]

[psycholawgy]

From Aria, the fortune teller.

[ she's just as worried. everything's started to become really creepy, especially with how sudden the noises stopped. ]

[faithfulflame]

Just like Merlin.

[Which...]

I didn't visit her. My mask just appeared. That's what bothers me most about this. If it was limited to people who fulfilled a specific condition, that's one thing. But this is everyone.

[psycholawgy]

But yours is different, isn't it?

[faithfulflame]

Mine is, yes. The same as Ami, Minako, and Usagi-chan. We all have feathers. But so does Kujikawa-san. And I know others have said that they have different masks too.

I've had uncomfortable dreams lately too. Nothing specific, nothing even all that bad, nothing I can remember even, but I keep waking up at night. That's usually a sign. Usually.

[psycholawgy]

Oh no...

I'm sorry you haven't been sleeping well lately. [ that's just terrible. ] Is there anything I can do?

[faithfulflame]

I'm fine. A little insomnia is nothing new.

I think it's related though. I'd almost be willing to bet on it.

Have you talked about this with anyone else?

[psycholawgy]

You're the first one, but I'm going to tell Yu and probably some other people, too.

[faithfulflame]

Ryuko? Ai?

[She's...actually somewhat surprised to hear Yu's name come first.]

[psycholawgy]

Ryuko's gone... Ai's. . . she's still here, but I'm going to talk to her, too.

[faithfulflame]

[Rei slams a fist down on something. Hard.]

When did she disappear?

[Because that suddenly overrides any concern about the masks. That's someone important gone. Lucky for Athena she's not near Rei right now, because insomnia causes fraying tempers.]

[psycholawgy]

[ she definitely hears something thump, and she winces. not that rei could see. ]

Just yesterday. [ this is painful for her to talk about. she lost three friends in the same day, and it was the worst. she sounds calm now, though, but it doesn't mean that she's forgotten. ] She left her Vespa, so I took it to my place. That's all that she left.

[faithfulflame]

I wish I'd known sooner.

[It's painful for her too. Probably not a subject she cares to linger on, since she'd have liked to know sooner and not been told. Accidentally hitting on important and omitted information was frustrating. But whatever. Just. Whatever. That's all she's got right now.]

The masks. Any theories?

[Better that than voicing her irritation.]

[psycholawgy]

I don't have any right now, unfortunately.

I tried to do some research on them, but nothing relevant popped up.

[faithfulflame]

No, you probably won't find anything. Not immediately so. That's not how CERES does things.

[Hah, as if they'd make it so easy.]

I'm just not even sure what feathers mean.

[psycholawgy]

There wasn't even any information about Aria online, either.

How weird is that?

But I don't know what the feathers mean, either. Or what the cracks mean.

[faithfulflame]

There won't be. Again, they control the flow of information. It's not weird at all.

[And she's wondering why you think it is?]

What would Freud think? You're the psychologist. I mean, the cracks probably indicate some sort of divide, a fissure.

[psycholawgy]

[ because ceres still gives you the answers if you look hard enough, that's why. ]

Something breaking? Maybe a relationship, if you look at things figuratively. Or one's heart?