BACKDATED: An Aftermath of Ghosts [locked to New Hires, including Kokichi]

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[The morning after three ghosts visit the Rig in the night, Stacia appears on the comms.]

All right, I've had my coffee now. Anyone else have weird dreams last night? Because I sure did. If I appeared in yours and you have questions or concerns, I'd prefer to talk about it in person or otherwise privately. I imagine everyone else would too, given the themes.

Also, sorry about all the blood and/or violence.



((OOC: feel free to have locked threads between non-Stacia characters in this post as well!))

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[Stacia breathes a sigh that sounds somewhere between relieved and heart-broken.]

Okay. Okay, good. I was worried...when I asked her if she was sorry for not telling me sooner, she just said that she wasn't going to apologize for protecting her family. I wasn't sure if I was being unreasonable. [She scoffs.] I thought being hurt and mad was reasonable, but I didn't have an unbiased source to check with. Just angry assholes and people who have to deal with those angry assholes. Maybe she'd explain herself to you differently, but she never explained it clearly to me, so I can't tell you her defense.

[She wraps her fingers around her coffee.]

I'm not even mad about the ambush, though I guess we should talk about code words in the future. Just the lying.

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You don't got to tell me her defense. You don't owe it to her. [But he knows how tempting it is to try and defend one's parents who did wrong. Sometimes he even just hears things about other people's parents who did similar things to his, and he wants to jump in and play devil's advocate.

He drinks more of his coffee, then holds the styrofoam cup up to the sunlight to see how much more he has left.] Having an unbiased source or two around definitely helps sometimes.

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[Stacia smiles, small and vulnerable instead of her usual toothy grin, but still sincere.]

You're right. I guess I don't.

[She takes a swig of her own coffee, then copies Dan's trick for checking how much remains.]

Thanks for listening to me vent, I really appreciate it.