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[ someone's up and awake again. Not so tired sounding, though. This time, she's remembered to go and eat before she reaches out to the rest of the hive. ]

( Is anyone in the Bearings that can give me an update on what I've... missed? As much detail as possible.

If it were safer, I might suggest we start keeping more accessible records for these... interludes. )

[ She's not fond of this not knowing everything all the time ever. Which on the note of: she sighs, little echoing tumbling thought that is edged with frustration. ]

( And... does anyone what kind of tricks lions should do? Are they meant to be predators? Are they meant to be tamed?

.... Actually, does anyone know what a lion is? I'm starting to realise I don't know very much about animals if they aren't trying to eat you. Which isn't particularly useful, right now. )

[ ... and for anyone looking for Angel, she will be with a strew of mechanical parts around her that is half in her room, half in the corridor for her shiny new, tackely bright gold performing robotic lion. ]

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( Wow. That sounds... rough. Really rough. We didn't really have to deal with being eaten by anything on my planet. We were at the top of the food chain and there wasn't really anything that our technology couldn't handle. I don't think you HAVE to kill it. It's just a robot, right? It's not even a real lion. )

[ She pauses. Oh, hey, that name sounds kinda familiar. ]

( Wait, Angel? I think Sam mentioned you, right? You're one of the people I should talk to about technology, right? )

( I... suppose, the core of it is to learn what people like to see when they escape and cater to that - )

[ She's distracted, processing, contemplating. Almost doesn't respond until a moment later. Scatter brained, this one. ]

( Oh, yes, that's me. What would you like to know? )

[ Pidge tends to ramble a bit. And occasionally jump around from topic to topic. Sorry, Angel. ]

( Uh, Sam said that you guys had a tech setup or something and that you two were the people I should talk to about coordinating when we try to dig stuff out of the local network. At least stuff that's where we're not supposed to be, anyway. )

[ This can only end well if they're both off in the clouds half the time. ]

( I can definitely help you with that. What did you have in mind to look for? )

[ What could possibly go wrong? ]

( I don't know yet. There's a lot of information bouncing around and I'm not really sure what we should be following up on - but, uh, the head of Public Security. I was thinking of following up on her, because the other Sam said that she was lying about something, so maybe she knows more then she's letting on? )

[ Everyone needs to be afraid. ]

( In my experience, and from what I've been told by the others about the situation, I definitely think so. We can definitely start looking in that direction.

And I can show you the ropes, so to speak, of the tech here whilst we're at it if you like? )

( I've pretty much been doing nothing but trying to familiarize myself since I arrived, but sure. You've probably got a head-start on me, anyway!

Have you been able to find anything? These guys take their security way more seriously than the Galra ever did. )

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( Then you'll be up to speed in no time, I'm sure.

It's hard. We have technology similar, even on the same level to certain degrees but - they take their security beyond that again. I've found it difficult because there aren't the usual ... back doors I guess you could say, that I usually found to enter through. Or at least, not for long, they notice my presence quickly, I don't read like a normal user.

.... Which is a very long way of saying, unfortunately, nowhere near as much as I would prefer or even find to be useful. )

( Great. I thought it wouldn't be too bad, but once I started poking around I found out that they're way more into security then the Galra ever were. I can poke around, but I don't think I can crack into anything serious without drawing way more attention than we want right now.

So, same conclusion. Maybe we can figure out a way around that, though. There's always a loophole somewhere, right? )

( It's their top priority in just about most cases I've encountered. If you do things differently to what they do, as well, it makes you stand out even more. It's complicated.

I have been looking for one, but I am beginning to think that more hands-on forms of infiltration might be better. But that might just be my own frustration at getting flagged more times than I can count. )

( That seems to be the rough consensus so far. And I think it might be right, which kinda sucks. But if we plug in at the source, it's at least harder for them to track us down, right? Less of a footprint if we use the physical backdoor to get access to their systems. )

( That's my thinking about it, so far. I don't want to put the others here in jeopardy at all. The less we can be traced back to each other, the better. Protecting each other is the most important thing, I think. )

( All the information in the world won't help us if we get caught. But there are risks worth taking! I don't like sitting on my hands and waiting. )

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