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[Such a wondrous device. Are there little invisible couriers for these messages?]

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[headjacked]

OhmanTHANKYOU -- it'll. Probably be awhile before I can rejoin you guys, for obvious reasons --

[ Rhys cuts off with an oof, not necessarily a pained sound. But he's just gotten good at masking those, hasn't he? ]

[warriorscribe]

[There's a message quietly sent to Angel. That may not have sounded pained, but the abruptness does raise concerns.]

Are you all right? [Wait...] Tell me, please.

[headjacked]

No, not really! B-but, Enoch, take- take care of everywhhaaaon --

[ A second not-quite-pained grunt.

Then the telltale pause. ]

Go cry to the bloodsucker about it, if you haven't already. Nothing you two do here makes any difference.

[warriorscribe]

You know that isn't true. But then, your sense of reality has always been skewed, Jack.

[On the one hand, the more reprieve from Jack's control Enoch can give him, the better. On the other, it sounds like Jack is forcing him to hurt himself to interrupt whatever autonomy he can give him. Sure, he doesn't sound pained, but "not really"... Vile little AI...if only removing him didn't entail more than he'd ever dare approach, even without the memory of the tower to make it worse.]

I'll look after them. Rhys, in the meantime, however he's wounded you, I want you to take care of yourself.

[headjacked]

I'm -- I-I'm a tough cookie, Enoch, this won't crumble me. This is -- th -- this is dumb and annoying at worst.

[ Unless he bumps into someone, which is more luck than anything else. Even if they did a PSA, public manhunt, that never fully stopped the repeat offenders.

It never fully stops.

Still, can't hurt, can it? He's about to suggest it, when -

You know the drill. ]

Be -- be seeing you.