mental link; after everything goes down on the evening of :038

[adamance]

[As it becomes apparent that it's time to move on—to shift forward in what feels like an endless pilgrimage, one in which none of the Hosts will gain any "true" enlightenment, as they will never see this culture as anything more than a means to an end. (At least, that's as far as Lexa sees it. Perhaps it's disrespectful. Perhaps she would bristle at it herself if it were about her culture. But then, no one is calling these people primitive and uncivilized like she's heard about her people in the past.)

Not that any of this will be spoken. This mission will go on, but it's a mission that can come to an end. That is something within their reach.

Which is why she opens up a mental communication to all the Hosts.]

( We must discuss, as a whole, how we hope to proceed moving forward. Before we pack up our things, I would prefer that we have some plan in place for how we act next. It'll prevent any further need to take on actions individually as we will be acting for each other. With the knowledge of each other's future actions.

That is not to say that I recommend against actions. But we can't act in contradiction to one another. Out of impatience for each other. We all hope to be done with this mission as soon as possible.

We have confirmed the presence of the Enemy. How do we hope to proceed? How will we ensure that the Descendants do not claim control of this power?

Furthermore, I implore you all to consider why it is the Enemy would act to prevent peace talks that could secure them the Nectar. And why it is that they need the Nectar. We are only fighting one battle here.

I won't lead this discussion. But we must have this discussion. We work well under time constraints. Let's have an idea of how we hope to proceed before we continue our journey. )

[That's her way of setting a time constraint, all in hopes that people will discuss what they will have to do. It's no longer about Keya (as far as she's concerned), but about their greater mission.]

[ooc: please please please treat this as an IC discussion post where people can threadjack and discuss whatever! i figured it would be a good idea to facilitate discussion here!]

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[raw]

( So I guess Annie was right, we're just shock troops. )

[ That isn't to say he doesn't privately think that still might be an acceptable sacrifice, though this planet is backwards as helllll. ]

[sizeofyourbaggage]

( Not to me. ) [ Whether that matters to him or anyone else - well, it probably doesn't in the scheme of things, but it matters to Sam. ] ( And not to some others here. We're not planning on letting that happen. )

[raw]

[ Jesus christ you're such a superhero. There's a flicker of skepticism paired with reluctant admiration that he tamps down like it's an errant spark. ]

( Yeah, me neither. )

[ Self-sacrifice is one thing, but his sister's here now. ]

( So that's a bad play. Got it. )

[sizeofyourbaggage]

[ Too late Elliot he felt both of those.

He's not going to call attention to either of them, though, because he gets the skepticism and the admiration is - well, not something he's gonna poke at. ]

( Good to hear. But yeah, that's another reason why I agree with you guys that we need to coordinate with each other. ) [ And not just on this mission, but although that feeling makes it across the link, it's a subject he'll circle back to again once they're back on the Station. ]