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Nikolai Lantsov, 24

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[rezni]

I do. Why? Have you found something?

[ Unspoken Are you in trouble? even as Nikolai's nerves jangle. ]

[dadyl]

[ Did he find something? Daryl almost laughs, or would if he could breathe. His mouth twitches because yeah, he found something. Trouble. ]

don't want
the spiders

to find me

[rezni]

[ A hitch in the whirring hum of thought running beneath their connection. ]

Who?

[ Cutting straight to the heart of the thing, even as he grabs his coat, abandons the box of new-minted tokens to Iskra's custody. ]

[dadyl]

some guy
new

goes by fifty

[ He'll tell him because it's the truth but the guy is still sitting in the dirt next to him. Blind and drunk, no longer a threat. ]

accident

my fault

[rezni]

I'm coming.
I'll take you to Ianthe.

We can argue about who's fault it is in a month. Tell me what happened instead. Or anything else.

[dadyl]

just wanted

to help

[rezni]

Was it a transformation?

[dadyl]

no
knife

think it hit a lung

[rezni]

How long ago?

[dadyl]

couple minutes

its

i'm almost done

[rezni]

Don't wait for me.

I'll find you. I promise.

[dadyl]

[ The promise helps. It's one of the last things he hears before the network can't be sustained in his head anymore. Nikolai doesn't get an answer back. ]