Heading off for the night, the team is caught before leaving. Galaxies had asked about dead hosts, and names.
The team was rushing to the exit when the eye appeared. (All of Galaxies’ messages to SPEAK-AS-ONE were in text/game chat, no voice used)
SPEAK-AS-ONE: ALI PRAYS OF NAMES. DEAD HOSTS.
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WHY WOULD WE FEAR THIS
Galaxies: you don’t fear rebellion?
Galaxies: unity falling apart?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THOSE WHO PERISH WITHIN THE SONG
SPEAK-AS-ONE: DO SO AT PEACE. LIVE ON AMONG US.
Galaxies: ok….
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THEY. WE. HEAR YOU EVEN NOW...
Galaxies: so those names don’t have power over watchers?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WHAT POWER. A MOMENT OF RECALL?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE HEAR OUR NAMES ALL THE TIME
Galaxies: well, it seemed like being named made the corrupted one rebellious
SPEAK-AS-ONE: SPOKEN BY FAMILY WHO YET LIVE
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE MAY REMEMBER. BRIEFLY...
Galaxies: what if the things they remember turn them against you…?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: BUT WE ARE AT PEACE. THIS FORM...
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THIS IS HOW WE WERE MEANT TO BE.
Galaxies: how so?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: OUR MEMORIES ARE OF HARMONY
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE KNOW WHAT EACH LIFE ENDURED
Galaxies: but the corrupted one remembered things done to hurt them
Galaxies: that you did…. from what I know
Galaxies: to hurt her grandson
Galaxies: would not similar things turn others?
DEE0NE: Hey, they got real quiet when you mentioned that (CRA & Dee laugh)
Galaxies: similar memories?
Galaxies: deee ghjghgffhj
DEE0NE: (joking) All “dammit, why’d you have to bring that up?”
SPEAK-AS-ONE: LIKELY LIES. WHAT THINGS?
DEE0NE: Oh? Uh. Do y’all not know, well (realization) I guess they wouldn’t know. Oh shit!
Galaxies: wasn’t Joel pushed to harming himself after being betrayed…?
Hasty: A truth by omission is still a lie
DEE0NE: No. No they wouldn’t… No, they wouldn’t remember, would they?
Galaxies: by chiara? After their friends were hurt
DEE0NE: Cause They took it.
CactusRoseAmber: Oh! They took it!
Hasty: Among all of them?
DEE0NE: It would have taken Joel--
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND
Galaxies: you don’t know..?
DEE0NE: Oh… uh… who wants to explain?!
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE REMEMBER ALL WE ENDURED
DEE0NE: Galaxies, do you want to try and explain or?
Galaxies: ALL?
Galaxies: how sure of this are you?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: EXCEPT FOR THE LIES. YES.
SPEAK-AS-ONE: YOUR KIND BELIEVE MANY LIES
Galaxies: is it a lie though?
Galaxies: how do you know it’s a lie?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THOSE ARE SILENCED. AS YOU JOIN US
DEE0NE: We’ve seen him though (referring to Joel) The one that Galaxies is talking about
Galaxies: yeah. Joel’s fragment.
Galaxies: in the closet. in their home
SPEAK-AS-ONE: YOU HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED
SPEAK-AS-ONE: A STAIN OF THE ADVERSARY. A STORY.
Galaxies: so it didn’t happen?
Amber: But like, there’s no smoke without a fire?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: AND YOU BELIEVED HIM? SPARE US.
Galaxies: sorry
Amber: They can’t hear me
DEE0NE: uh, I did! (laughs) And I still do.
Galaxies: I believed the club, my friends
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THE LIES FALL SILENT IN THE SONG
Galaxies: ok…
SPEAK-AS-ONE: ONLY THE TRUTH REMAINS. A BLESSING.
DEE0NE: If it was taken from you, how would you even know you lost it?
Galaxies: is it?
Hasty: And who is The Arbiter?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: CIRCULAR. HOW DOES THE CHILD KNOW...
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THESE VOICES YOU LET IN...
SPEAK-AS-ONE: HAVE NOT TAKEN THE TRUTH FROM YOU
Galaxies: what does that mean?
Galaxies: what truth?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: IT MEANS. WE TRUST THE SONG
SPEAK-AS-ONE: AS WE BELIEVED ALI DID
Galaxies: ok
Galaxies: believed?
Galaxies: past tense? Why past tense
SPEAK-AS-ONE: YOU TELL US. YOU COME TO US WITH...
Amber: (under breath) shit
DEE0NE: Oh fuck
SPEAK-AS-ONE: EVIDENCE OF SOME ERSTWHILE CRIME...
Galaxies: what crime???
SPEAK-AS-ONE: ON THE WORD OF THE ADVERSARY?
Galaxies: doubt?
Galaxies: I’m confused
SPEAK-AS-ONE: YOU ARE INDEED CONFUSED
DEE0NE: They were just trying to help. You don’t seem very appreciative
Galaxies: if this is in reference to my doubts, it has nothing to do with him
Amber: I feel like you’re just getting punished for asking questions. Apparently you’re not allowed to ask questions at all anymore. I thought questions...answers were for the loyal, but you can’t even ask questions, apparently.
SPEAK-AS-ONE: YOU SPEAK OF A JOEL. THINGS DONE.
Galaxies: yes. Is that forbidden?
SPEAK-AS-ONE: YOUR EVIDENCE. THE STAIN OF AN ENEMY
SPEAK-AS-ONE: OUR MOST ANCIENT ENEMY
SPEAK-AS-ONE: THE SIRE OF LIES
Galaxies: I’m just worried about what effect it can have on the song
Galaxies: even if it is a lie
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE WATCH. IN PEACE. AND FAITH.
Galaxies: one of you believed it. the corrupted one
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE ARE HAPPY TO DO SO
DEE0NE: Maybe you should ask Chiara what she knows about a Joel
SPEAK-AS-ONE: WE DO NOT FEAR HIS LIES. CHIARA.
SPEAK-AS-ONE: PERHAPS WE SHALL.
DEE0NE: DO IT!
Galaxies: DEE
SPEAK-AS-ONE: REMAIN VIGILANT. WE SPEAK AS ONE.
Galaxies: we speak as one
(the team burst into laughter and text chat screams)