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[Someone's posted a link to a recorded video message to the network. Slightly blurry, it's focussed on a single grey figure, who is far too close to the camera to be seen clearly until she takes a couple of steps backwards, when it resolves into what anyone who's seen one can identify as a troll, between the skin, the yellow eyes, and the obvious yellow horns curving up out of way too much black hair. She looks off-screen at something out of frame, and smiles, revealing a whole lot of very pointy teeth.]

On? Go?

[There's a weird bubbly sound to the words, almost a chirp underlying them, and a weird glubby glottal stop before some of the es. Someone says something in response, although it isn't clear, but it must be confirmation, because the next thing that happens is that the figure straightens up, looking seriously straight into the camera.]

I am Feferi! Come to Earth. Lost... fronds? Looking. One like me but yellow.

[Something inaudible off-camera again]

Friends. Not good with words. Important L-EAV-E M-ESSAG--E IF S--E-EN!

[The language changes, to something much more alien, recognisable as Alternian to anyone who's heard enough of it to recognise it.]

(H-ELLO! This is Feferi! Someone glubbed they heard someone who looked JUST LIK-E SOLLUX was seen in...) Los Angeles? (That's a really weird name! If anyone who knows me sees this video floating around, L-ET M-E KNOW IF YOU'R-E ALIV-E! I might not be able to stay in one plaice for long, though, so leaving a message might be a good idea! I hope it was you, Sollux. I've been looking for you for AG-ES!)

[She steps forward and to the side, and the room behind her is a little clearer; it's what clearly used to be a very sterile lab, although now there's a lot of mess everywhere, mostly broken lab equipment and some amounts of what might be blood. A TRIDENT symbol is clearly visible on the wall, before the feed cuts off and the video ends.]

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I would stay if I cod!

[Her old speech habits come back at the worst possible time. She presses a hand against the corner of the monitor; it's the closest she can come to touching him right now, and it's nowhere near enough, but it's what she's got right now. It hurts to see him so upset, but she can't comfort him from here.]

You have NOTHING to be sorry for, Sollux! Don't apologise. Believe me, if they catch me, they'll regret it!

[He trills at her, a sound that is both fond and distressed. His thumb rubs over the screen because it's all that he can do.]

I missed you.

[It's quieter at the rest as he stares back at her, at a loss for what else to say in these crucial moments.]

Please come back.

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[She smiles properly, this time, and chirps back, a little sad but mostly just fond.]

Missed you too. Nothing can keep me away, I PROMIS-E!

[There's a lot of noise in the background now, though, and she looks away over her shoulder, although whatever it is doesn't seem to bother her much.]

I need you to pass a message to Karkat for me, though, or put him back on to glub.

[He shakes his head slightly, and doesn't move to pass off the phone. He's unwilling to sacrifice any of the remaining time he might have.]

He's...he's here, what is it?

There's a beach in the city where you are called Abalone Cove, according to one of the humans I know. Can he meet me there in 3 days at the night-time high tide? I will come ashore then, if he can!

[Karkat IS INDEED still here, although he doesn't lean over to make himself visible on screen. He changed the link to video for Sollux because he figured it'd be harder for him to tell himself it wasn't real that way, but he doesn't want Feferi to get a glimpse at the colour of his blood in his eyes when there isn't time to for him to explain or justify it.] Okay, I got it, I'll be there.

I will see you there then! And I want to see Sollux before I glub with ANYON-E!

[The breaking noises in the background stop, and are replaced by a lot of muffled shouting. Feferi's teeth are all on display now, and it's only a grin because there's nothing else to call that expression; she gets a better grip on her trident, and turns away from the monitor.]

Time to go! See you soon!

Bye...

[It's barely mumbled as Sollux stares at the screen, heartbroken to see her go even if there are promises of her return. He can't shake the fear that he'll never see her again.]

[He feels like there is more he should say, but he doesn't have the words.]

[She just has time for one last comment, although she's still looking at something else off-screen. She sounds utterly serious, for once, even though she's still grinning.]

Still flushed for you!

[And then she's moving, trident raised high, towards something behind the monitor, and it all goes dark.]