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(( TN looking particularly harried. They talk about Secession day and 25th anniversary of Launch, but the whole time she’s really visibly anxious. The topic of Jonas comes up and that spikes, with her scanning the crowd. They slowly get back to talking about ??? and then she starts to get a real panicked look as more of her instances go offline, starts freaking out, looking outside, at the crowd. She spots Guowei and scrabbles along the couch to grab em by the wrist and slip out of the sim to home, hollering for em to grab May, who’s already dealing with an intruding assassin, which she does by forking into an overlapping space and letting collision algos bounce him out of the way, even as they’re trying to bounce all those forks from the sim. Ioan grabs May and goes to Arrowhead lake where basically all three have a panic attack (TN wades out into the lake and screams, May eventually goes to retrieve her) while TN explains the assassins. She wonders who could’ve sent them (Jonas has been drumming up imagined foes of late), but May asks who might know to send them after her root instance (Ioan like huh??? you’ve been meeting me with your root instance?), at which TN blanches (under her fur, presumably) ))
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