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[perfectsymmetry]

[Call/message filtered from Margot (Crowe feels she's upset enough already) to all non-drones. No one Crowe knows had been droned until now and he's having a hard time dealing with it.]


Does... does the town often drone people for no reason? This is... this is... I don't even know. How can this happen? Nadia was one of the nicest people in town, she... she never bothered anyone, never hurt anyone..._{it's not fair... what if she doesn't...}

I-I mean is that it then? Even if we DO get along with this town and its rules, we might just droned anyway?! For no reason whatsoever? Am I just supposed to sit around and wait for them to brainwash the rest of us permanently too? I don't get it! What do they want from us?! What are we supposed to do?


[There's a pause as he sighs and rubs his forehead.]


...I-I'm sorry it's just... _{why couldn't they have done it to someone else...}


[The phone is hung up.]

Comments

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

…

I'm sorry to hear that, sir. You're right. But… team what?

[hop-toit-udonge.livejournal.com]

Mm... you probably shouldn't be alone right now.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Um. Maybe. I'll be okay I guess, it's just... I just don't get it.

Oh, a-are you feeling any better, doctor? I was worried about you. But I was having that, um, teleportation problem....

[hop-toit-udonge.livejournal.com]

Far better.

[passes-out.livejournal.com]

Hm, it would appear as if the town has a method to keeping those in the houses in line. I have no inclination to believe that this is isolated. Perhaps there is a reason they were droned. Did they perform a task too perfectly? Did they disagree with anyone or anything the town had to offer? It is something worth checking out and perhaps then we can have an answer. We may not be so fortunate to discover an answer so quickly.

Let us not dwell too much on this lest we become victims ourselves.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Too perfectly? What else can we do to make this town happy? We go to school and don't go against their insane rules, and that's still not good enough?!

I;m sorry, I don't mean to y-yell at you sir. It's not your fault, it's....

...how can I not dwell on it. I'll see her every day at school. Her sister still has to live with her...

[passes-out.livejournal.com]

[His voice lowers slightly. He knows that Crowe is upset and didn't take it personally.]

I see. Perhaps now, you should put the training to use. To seek out the information as to what made her a drone. Who was she in contact with last? Where was she when she was taken to be droned? Why was she droned? How did she behave before her droning? These questions should aid you to find the answers.

This could also be random and we need to keep our eyes peeled. Do you understand? Put your anger into finding the truth to use to prevent any more needless mishaps. Be subtle but be quick.

[beatssuperpaper.livejournal.com]

Precisely. As you say, you can be droned for anything, as long as they want, regardless what you do or how well you do it.

A nice place, isn't it?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just... lovely. [He sighs.]

I don't get it. Brainwash when we're good, brainwash us when we're bad... why not just keep us brainwashed all the time, if that's the case?

[beatssuperpaper.livejournal.com]

Oh, maybe because obedience is inconsequential to the gamemaster of this place.

[thief-of-truth.livejournal.com]

Mr. Edgeworth was droned for no reason too.

...He's gone completely now.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

.... I'm sorry, Miss Faraday. I-I shouldn't be complaining. It's not like I'm the only one going through this...

[thief-of-truth.livejournal.com]

We need to start acting on the plans we made before. A week or two ago, I would have told you this place wasn't so bad, but now I hate it. To think that someone you care about can just be ripped out from under you like that, and for no reason... this town is a terrible place.

[hourai-branch.livejournal.com]

We're playthings. Simple as that.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

And that's all? They just want to pull our strings to see how we'll react? I just... I just can't sit around here and wait for them to do it to me. It's maddening.

[homeruninsomnia.livejournal.com]

Yeah man, sorry about that. It really sucks. What sucks even more is that this town's never really..fair about it. It's just once in awhile somebody's just...I dunno...gone.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

It just doesn't make sense. I don't even know what we're supposed to be doing. Do they want us to act out or play nice? Either could end up with you being droned permanently or temporarily. There's just no sense to it, it's infuriating.

[extremelysunny.livejournal.com]

What's a drone?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Oh. H-have you not been here long enough to hear about that….? It's what they call the brainwashed people in the town…

[windmill.livejournal.com]

...Don't mention any of that to Margot.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

N-no, of course not. She has enough to worry about without needing to put up with my complaining too…

Y-you were friends with her, right sir? I mean, did something happen…?

[bloodon-myknife.livejournal.com]

[Sniper would find Crowe after that call. He did not even have his fake smile up at the moment.]

Someone else fall already?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Crowe would be sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea that's gone cold by this point. He looks up at Sniper with no trace of his usual cheeriness. This wasn't exactly the person he wanted to be speaking to about this.]

It's Nadia. Margot… she thinks this is for good. I don't … [he sighs.]