mental link; it's a catbus!

[wille]

[ It's an ungodly hour of the night as these things go, with both Misato and Gildor's minds flickering to announce their presence to all. Forceful and unapologetic, for her part, while urgent and unsettling, for his part. They insist on your attention. ]

( Everyone. We found something out there beyond the barrier. It was too dark for us to see much-- )

(Or anything, for some of us, but-- )

( But it's massive-- )

(Big as the shuttles that brought us-- )

( And predatory. At least, it seemed pretty clear that it wanted to take a chunk out of us. Some of you found tracks the other day, right? Let's talk. )
 

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[wille]

[ His protest could have been about anything. About a canceled day at the zoo. About being promised the world and denied a lollipop. She pauses, and digs into what well of compassion she has left. She softens her voice to dull the edges of her words. ]

( Everything I know. I can't tell you who you should be here. That's for you to decide. )

[extradite]

( I didn't ask you that. )

[ It's come to this, then, though: her equating the two words in her thoughts, searching their shape and their weight and finding them with the same dark eyes, the same pale form. 'Monster'. 'Shinji'. ]

( I... I. Misato. Me. Myself. This individual. Shinji. I killed someone. You all called him a monster. But he was a person. A real person. Realer than you and me. )

[wille]

[ Ah. So it's come to this. Her pause is a wise one, when she tries on and discards the many names she could have used instead. Tabris. The Fifth, no, the Seventeenth. ]

( Nagisa Kaworu. ) [ A real name for a real person, right? ] ( Why did you do it then? )