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Sent ZRAEL a group text. But it can't hurt to update her. Might not've been the most — uh... helpful.

[ To his feet, carefully. Feels like Venti got everything... ]

—Thanks.

You're welcome.

[ Wry: ] Thanks for not dying.

[ Snorts softly. Coming over to look into the window, and........... ]

Couldn't let that happen, could I. She's already gonna feel like three different kinds of shit.

Yeah . . . We're gonna have a lot of work to do reassuring her once she's back to normal.

I'm apologizing first.

[ Eyeing the mess in there, ]

...I want backup before I open this up to anyone.

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Do you have someone in mind?

[ ...He runs through a couple options, honestly, before abruptly remembering. ]

Caeli. And... he might be able to calm her down, too.

[ Any other day and he'd be making a joke out of this, because the context in which he's personally experienced literally any of Wild City's powers was — fun, but. Yeah. Not right now. ]

Oh! Doctor and I did discuss turning her into a hamster--

--Oh, we absolutely need to tell Doctor, too.

[ Turning her into a hamster.................. his lips curve up a tiny bit, then he nods. ]

Yeah, probably.

[ They're definitely forgetting some of the other people who should be told. :( Ugh. ]

Want me to handle it?

[ Look, it's not their fault she has so many friends!! ]

You text Doctor, I'll text Caeli.

[ 🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃: We've got an Aliza emergency!
🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃: An Alizergency!
🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃: We really need someone to help contain her.

Along with, of course, a location ping ]

Divide and conquer?

[ ...huh. Headtilt, watching the ping.

—It takes him a few seconds longer to send his text out.

🐺: So we had words
🐺: The very physical kind
🐺: I'm okay
🐺: She's contained for now
🐺: We thought you might wanna know

And let's see, open the map........ yeah, there we go. ]

Done.

Dr. Doctor: I'm relieved it wasn't worse. Dr. Doctor: Do you want me to come to her, or would that cause problems?

🐺: It's totally up to you Doc
🐺: She's out right now
🐺: But we're gonna try to get her healed up and figure out a more long term containment strategy

[ ~~He says this, totally unable to even imagine Zari being cross with you, much less the actual conversation you've been having in that version of the timeline.~~ ]

Dr. Doctor: I can come to visit her when she's conscious. Dr. Doctor: Heroes Never Die is active, so she can't kill me and regret it later, no matter how hard she might try in the moment.

[yeah about that]

[ ..........................................Doc, ]

🐺: And she wants to kill you why exactly

Dr. Doctor: We kept our own antidote instead of sending it to ZRAEL. Dr. Doctor: And also I wouldn't agree to become her brainwashed servant when she regains the ability to make those.

[ You know, he doesn't have all that much room to judge, but. ]

🐺: Maybe next time just play along?/span>

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Teamwork makes the dream work!

[ The tiniest little snort, but it's still actual amusement. Maybe a real smile, instead of the shadows he's been managing.

And HEY Caeli sure is here now— ]

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[ an alizergency. all he needed to hear, really.
as soon as he's got the location he's on his way. ]

[ ✅ read. ]

[ a peregrine falcon is going to land on venti's shoulder a few minutes later and then, poof, childe is standing behind him. ]

Want to bring me up to speed real quick? ...or as quick as you can given... [ looks at whatever scene is likely unfolding before them. ] this.

[ It's currently Venti (unharmed), Lupine (battered), and a . . . cottage.

Like someone, perhaps, dropped a house on the wicked witch of the west. ]

Aliza really wants Lupine dead, and I don't think she's picky right now about who she has to go through. She'll hate herself for it later if we let her succeed at hurting anyone, though.

She's, ah . . .

[ Just. Points at the cottage. ]

Asleep, for now. But I want Lupine to get rid of the cottage so I can heal her. That's where you come in . . .

[ and a... cottage. ]

[ he'll avoid asking the obvious question of... did a game happen, because that seems to be the obvious answer to sum up this mess. childe nods, taking stock on everything venti's pointing out to him. ] ...mm, you're not wrong about that. I'm sure she's already not going to be happy about having lost control, so we should try to mitigate the damage where we can.

[ he starts to approach the cottage. ]

I'm assuming you'd like me to change her into something relatively harmless then, since my pheromones aren't exactly all that effective. [ they only work so well to calm people, and if they're already agitated to high hell, well... it's basically a lost cause. ] I think I got something in mind.

On your mark. [ going as close as possible to it. ]

I can put up an illusion first, hide all of us...

Can't just make us invisible, though, so it'd have to be something specific. Like — a forest?

A forest might be disarming enough to buy us time.

A forest should be fine. And I can try to keep her attention on me for the few seconds I need to use Frog Materia.