[She wants to take this damn thing off and smash it into the nearest cavern wall. If only snarls could be conveyed over text...]
—least... not... dead fish. ...unnatural. Stench- horrendous even in hu- Some... imprisoned for one thing or another below. Evid... other pris---- hunch our tar--- high security area, if anything over these.... current state... be believed.
[And before Shiro wonders: No, she did indeed type that many elipses. Before realizing what he was trying to do. What's even better is when she sends that and goes to send another, it translates her tone to:]
[She is going to forever say the dumbest thing she's had to deal with his Alistair. Bloody simpleton isn't about to be dethroned by something this trivial.]
Angler- ... not much bet---. Though threat of ----- somehow wor---. Shame that...
Will d-. Congrat------s on being more subtl- -han -- Amell and I, by the way.
[You know what. She's going to wait while a certain someone gets their shit together. Because there is no way in any realm any of that makes sense save for being unable to locate the source.]
I hope I'm not catching you at a bad time. But after the... [A pause, a thoughtful hum and he goes with...] clusterfuck of our return from Akvos, I wanted to check in.
[Shapeshifters need to stick together. Clearly.] Let me know how you are, if you could?
[Well, she hopes he doesn't mind the sound of something in the background bubbling for the time being. Because witches gonna brew things and shit or whatever cliche she'd poking at this time. She sighs.]
That is one way to put it, yes. [Is that the sound of something grinding? Eh, probably his imagination.]
I am... fine. Better than most of those gathered here, I take it.
[Except her tone betrays her. She isn't broken up about it, no; she's pissed. At the very least, she schools her tone into something more civil.]
[Honestly he's heard worse and weirder. Though his curiosity is piqued, if nothing else.
But mostly he's happy to hear her voice. Good. So she made it back in one piece.]
Some people are taking it hard. I can't blame them.
[Barabas has settled on exhausted and frustrated as his reaction, and obsessively trying to make some shred of sense out of this to figure out what went wrong, what they missed.]
I'm all right. I always seem to land on my feet, even if I'm no cat.
How fortunate we seem to have quite some time, given our lovely host is off gallivanting with invisible friends.
[She's far too used to killing, herself. Mourning is something she hopes to never have to worry about; for another twenty or thirty years, give or take.]
That... is true. She's certainly inspiring confidence.
[No confidence at all. But again, there's only so much that they can do given that they are here at Astoria's whim. And how powerful she apparently is.
But for now Barabas won't start talking about insurrection and instead taking in that answer.]
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