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[Good evening Temba! Tommy's back from another day in Not-Temba and on this video looking tired but thoughtful.]

Hey, sorry to bug people, but hoping I could get someone who was on the Adventure to Save the Agrii who might have gone to Not-Temba to tell me I'm crazy. Just...

I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse cataloging food and there was this one plant in particular that was SUPER bothering me. Because I knew I'd eaten some of it before, but not here. Couldn't remember what or why for the longest time. It was this stalk, not unlike a really tall piece of celery or something, and when I bit into it, the stuff tasted like buttered corn. Finally figured out where I'd had it before.

Not just that either. I think there might be Boar-bunnies in the forest. Don't quote me on it, but after you spend time hauling one back to a village to trade for meat, you sorta get a LONG look at those hooves.

Those two things put together means something very specific to me. Guys, someone tell me I'm just imagining things? Or don't and explain it. Because the two things are something I only encountered in one place before: the Graq homeworld. And the Agrii CLEARLY didn't know the Graq and it seemed like the reverse was true. So how am I running into that shit here?

[Not that he likes the idea of the reverse. If he's going mad, if he's gotten that family quirk going on, he's going to have a whole other mess of issues. And that is its own form of stress. But if what he saw was real, he has no ideas and that's freaking him out.]

I guess, what the FUCK is going on here?

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You're not wrong. A lot feels wrong. Except for the bubble-olives Kyle and I found. That stuff is good.

[His fingers flash through his hair as he sighs over this.]

I never asked. How... how bad was it to live with the powers that be that controlled the Drift Fleet hanging over your heads?

[Because this? This was weird shit that called back to everything on the Agrii ship, and he remembered how she had reacted to that singing planet star thing and he knew that had to do with the Atroma. Everyone seemed to be trying to avoid the name, but they also seemed to suspect these Atroma as a problem here too, so he wanted to ask someone who had experienced that stuff.]

Bubble olives? That sounds...interesting.

[Unconsciously mirroring him, Wanda sighs softly and looks away.]

It is not the first time I've lived like that, but Strucker wasn't interested in entertainment. It was...everything was just for their amusement. They made Vision phase for a week once. And someone sent terrible writing about Sansa and all of her friends.

I am glad I got to meet some of the people there, and that Vision and I found a home but...I thought we were free.

[You can't convince her they're not involved somehow. That message left when the core was taken had Atroma written all over it.]

Yeah, they're like bubble gum that tastes like smoothies. I've brought a fully fruiting tree back. It's been a SERIOUS bit of work. But I can bring you some if you wanna try it. Warning, you may giggle. Seems to induce giddiness.

[Something he'd enjoyed.]

Stay phased for a week? That's horrid! Jonas said phasing wasn't fun to stay in for long periods. Granted we had to learn to telegraph that because I could get stuck partially in him. Which is something else entirely.

[His fingers run through his hair again and he shakes it off.]

Not going to deny some of what I've experienced here is nice. Great. Makes me smile. But shit. If those fuckers were the ones to hurt Billy, they deserve horrible, horrible things.

Maybe I need something like that.

[There's a reason she'd never been able to break out of the illusion world - that's the first time she's been truly happy in a very long time.]

It was hard for him. The only thing he could feel for a week was my powers. They gave me cat ears once too, but that was not so bad.

[Her eyes flash red for the briefest of seconds.]

If I find out who hurt Billy, I will take them apart.

[Tommy too. Shit, if he could even begin to admit to her how happy he had been there. They had been a family. Sure his father wasn't there but he'd felt like the man was a presence. He had been loved and supported and wanted, and even successful. But dreams could always be pretty.]

Okay, cat ears sounds cut. Sign me up for THAT stupid alien manipulation. I'd fucking rock them.

[Well, at least he's not alone in being defensive.]

I'm going to make the club t-shirts for that. Pretty sure his big-blue dog agrees.

I didn't mind it so much compared to what it could have been, but I didn't like that it was done to me. But at least they never made my powers hurt anyone.

[Further loss of agency is always something that is especially difficult for her to tolerate peacefully. She's tired of all of these life-altering things just happening to her, tired of being yanked around on some cosmic chessboard.]

People aren't things. And if this was the Atroma, they have already gotten away with too much.

[Yeah. If it wasn't for how Billy's powers had gone off... Some people had gotten hurt from that. Tommy had gotten hurt. It was bad. At least his leg wasn't broken anymore.]

Well, if it's them you can count on me to ride to fuck them up. I don't like being a toy. EVen if a good thing came from it.

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