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[ Megumi's connection to the Murmur is crisp, cool, and terse; he avoids projecting anything more than he needs to, when he can help it.

And in this moment, he's taken the time to get his thoughts straight and make sure he can help it as much as humanly possible, because this month is shaping up to be a ride, and he's possibly spent a little too much energy dragging Hosts into the bowels of the abyss with his magic today. It's left him a little bit twitchy and he's noticed that there's a painful but pleasant afterglow after every spell.

And wow, does he not trust that at all. He's trying to button his feelings up extra tight right now. ]

Hey. I assume at least some of you have also been wondering about the status of the mainland.

...this is an island, for the record. If anyone hadn't already heard about that.

Noah, Aventurine, and I went to check on the bridges on the northeast side -- starting from Triborough and working north from there. There were four bridges in that area...past tense. All four have been destroyed, and from how thorough the job was, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't deliberate.

If anyone is in a better position to check on the others, I'd be interested to hear what you find, but I'm guessing it's more of the same.

[ Pause. That was the easy part, but of course there's more. Why wouldn't it be worse? ]

...so at least initially, I'd assume there was an attempt to isolate Manhattan. But I have doubts as to whether it actually did any good. We tried to get a look at the other side while we were at it.

[ And here he projects the memory, to save the trouble of explanation. There's a view, filtered through Aventurine's binoculars, of thousands of Hosts standing along the shore, gazing towards Manhattan, unmoving.

Yyyyyep. ]

However far it's spread...I think we're at the epicenter.

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I don't know how I feel about that...

But, well... most that I've met seem pretty capable so far. Outwardly.

Capability isn't the only thing I worry about. [ A beat, as he decides how to phrase it. ] State of mind is also a factor.

The inability to cope with everything?

...yeah, pretty much.

Well... hopefully people have managed to find others who can help keep them a bit calm at least.

[Till is not a shining example, lately, of coping and keeping it together well.]

Seems like a lot of people have managed to group up so far, at least.

[ Hopefully the people with the shortest fuses among them... ]

Our best bet in the end is probably for us all to look out for one another, so I'm glad.

Yeah. Almost everyone I've talked to has been pretty amenable to working together, and the worst I've seen is more just...disinclination to band together, not so much intention to go against the group.

[ Knock on wood. ]