[text, cellphone; backdated to shortly after Proud's death]

[healspec]

[Jan 25, shortly after the meeting and the accidental death of David Proud.]

[Ravi just feels numb, but he realizes it's important to inform the network how things turned out, so here he is. everything is still kind of sinking in, so he doesn't have much to say about it beyond the bare facts.]

Snakes are gone. Proud is dead.

[pause. he considers adding in a 'sorry,' but ultimately decides it's too much effort in his current emotional state and doesn't.]

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[healspec]

[oh no is this the other girl who provided the aerial strike? he feels so bad for both of them. HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO TELL HER. face in hands foreverrrr]

We tried. He broke away at the last second.

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[paradiseshrinemaiden]

[The difference between her and Marisa is that she wasn't going to waste much time on thinking about her role in this, at least not yet. She's going to go instantly for blaming other people.]

Well, then why didn't you try harder? Or at least knock the idiot out or something? This was your idea after all.

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[healspec]

[THAT'S OKAY HE DESERVES THE BLAME FOR THIS ONE. he doesn't want to deal with this shit but he won't deny it's warranted. at least she's throwing it at him and not at Danny.]

The plan wouldn't work if he was knocked out [HAHA WOW NOPE BACKSPACE let's not subtly admit to what happened there]

It happened too fast to stop him.

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[paradiseshrinemaiden]

[Well let's be real. She does know that Danny was the one keeping everyone intangible. So insensitive person that she can be at times, she probably would have thrown at least some of it at Danny, if Danny were the one who made the post. Fortunately it's Ravi she's talking to instead, and he did seem to be the one calling the shots, so ultimately he'd still get more blame, probably.]

He shouldn't have gotten away from you in the first place. It's not like he hadn't been trying to get away from you guys the whole time for some reason. [She noticed that. She's got really good observation skills.]

What were you guys doing with him anyway? I know you were leading the snakes away so they wouldn't blow up where there'd be a lot of people around, but it didn't seem like that guy was too keen on going anywhere.

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[healspec]

[REIMU NO DON'T POINT THAT OUT. Proud was really freaked out for a perfectly good reason and that is extremely uncomfortable for Ravi to think about!!]

He was paranoid and uncooperative. I don't know why. [THAT'S A LIE.] When we asked him to leave with us, he did not seem to care about the danger that the snakes could kill everyone inside the house if he did not come.

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[paradiseshrinemaiden]

[Well, alright. She never interacted with Proud at all and had never even actually seen him until the meeting, but something about that seems a little off.]

You sure you don't know why that was? It's a little weird that he wouldn't care when he was the one who warned us the Snakes would explode when we beat the alien back before they decided to show up at the house.

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[healspec]

I was not the one who asked him, so I could not hear his answer. But I don't think he did care.

[he is ABSOLUTELY not going to admit that Proud had every reason to not trust any of them. but he's not lying; Proud really didn't seem all that concerned with the risk of his snakes exploding in the house and taking everyone there out with him.]