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[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?

[faithfulflame]

Have you broken many hearts?

[An honest question.]

[psycholawgy]

No way! Nobody even liked me until Simon came along.

[faithfulflame]

Sure about that?

[psycholawgy]

One hundred percent!

[faithfulflame]

Then either you've missed something, a crush from someone maybe? Or you've had your heart broken before Simon-san. Or you've been betrayed.

[psycholawgy]

... I wouldn't say I was betrayed, but it was very close to it.

A detective who I thought was my friend turned out to be somebody else.

[ but the main reason she has cracks in her mask is because she betrayed myriam's trust, but she doesn't know that :') ]

Bobby :(

[faithfulflame]

[Rei frowns at that. Because...in her experience that means betrayal.]

Did this detective turn out to be someone who did or intended you harm in the end?

[Whelp, they're way off aren't they?]

[psycholawgy]

Well, yeah. I was almost given the death sentence because of what he did.

[faithfulflame]

I'd say that counts as a betrayal.

Maybe the mask is related to that.

[psycholawgy]

That's possible.

And is Rise not human like you? Maybe that's why you guys got a mask with feathers.

[faithfulflame]

As far as I know, Rise's human.

I mean, she's from Yu-kun and Yosuke-kun's world.

[psycholawgy]

Oh, she is? I'll have to meet her, then!

Maybe it's because you guys have superpowers, then?

[faithfulflame]

Maybe. It could be any number of things.

It's definitely a hint...

[psycholawgy]

What other types of masks are there? Do you know?

[faithfulflame]

Barcodes, fingerprints, and frowns.