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[sensive]

hey
um
it’s bob?
we haven’t met really

i know you’re busy
and you’re one of the only people honestly trying around here
but stephen said i should ask you about something
if you have a second

[holyposition]

Hi, Bob. I've got time. What is it?

[sensive]

thanks
we’re trying to figure out whether one rumour or both rumours is true every round, i guess

and stephen said you know one of the people who hears them
and could maybe ask what they heard last time?

first round, we have the two diamonds, but we only know one was true for sure, with danny and castiel
second round, we don’t have any, actually. homelander just assumed based on the anonymous post fishing for superheroes

obviously, with the numbers barely going down and yelena in jail, we still need to look at people like me and my friends, if there is a rumour and it’s true, so
i know it might not be a real lead
but i’d really like to know if i could be hurting people

[holyposition]

Stephen is overthinking himself into circles again, it sounds like.

I'll ask them if they've heard anything new.

[sensive]

yeah i think he’s spinning out
but i’ve been spinning out since the vote
and he lost two people this round

so maybe we all are, at this point

[ not addressing hawk’s public crashout ✔️ or the mess of giles going for klaus ✔️ ]

thanks anyway

[holyposition]

There are twenty dead bodies. We don't have time to spin out.

I'll let you know if I hear something.






Try not to get too involved with Hawk.

[sensive]

[ it’s colder than he expected, from someone who was involved in an emotional confrontation in the first round, but he doesn’t have it in him to argue the point. maybe people are losing their empathy, as the bodies stack up. maybe they do need to focus, or this will never end.

and then there’s the hawk of it all. ]

okay
let me know if i can help with anything
sorry to bother you

[holyposition]

[ It's colder than he means it, too. It's not from lack of caring. It's from so much of it that any other feeling falls by the wayside, that nothing matters but finding the wolves and ending the game. The clock ticks louder than it ever has before, the threat of loss so unimaginable that he knows he'll break looming as a condition of his failure. ]

Sorry.
But the only thing that can help me right now is stopping this. That means I need to stay focused.

It's not a bother.

[sensive]

i get it

[ they need to find the alpha to protect everyone (especially yelena, when two in the cages have been killed already). ]

you know where to find me

[ if anything comes of this. he doesn’t put stock in every rumour, but if the superhero one is real and true — and it points back to his team, to him.

and he doesn’t want anybody else to get hurt. ]