afternoon, pre-search

[mxpotatohead]

HEY y'all we just found a bike left about a mile out from the station and Colchester cops say a girl's missing, so if you been tossing your bike in a ditch on your morning triathlon better speak up now before it turns into a whole Thing. Cuz otherwise this ain't the BEST l

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[stgermaine]

I don't think she's hiding. I think she's heading towards the rift.

[bubble_boy]

She's that stupid dumb [...] reckless?

[stgermaine]

Most teenagers are. And she has motivation on top of a difficult week.

[bubble_boy]

She's supposed to be smarter though, right? She was trying to get an internship here. That's just so God dammit. Well, we're going to have our work cut out for us regardless.

[stgermaine]

She got the internship. Her family withdrew their consent several days ago.

[bubble_boy]

Even so [...] whatever, I guess there's no point in speculating about this kind of stuff. We can talk to her about it when we find her.

[stgermaine]

Right. We can discuss motivations after we get her to safety.

[bubble_boy]

Yep. And at least we have the bike as a jumping off point.

[rainbowfish]

Smart people can do stupid things.

[bubble_boy]

Yeah, but this is a little much. But honestly, I don't want to sit here and call a missing kid stupid. So I'll reserve all judgement until she's found.

[rainbowfish]

Appreciate it.

[coulee]

well that's off the fu table

[stgermaine]

We just have to intercept her. Hopefully she thinks better of it and this won't take more than an hour.

[coulee]

you got it. what d'you reckon her goal'd be, a lil science or a big trip?

[stgermaine]

I genuinely don't know. I hope she's thinking clearly enough to [...] not actually go too far for too long.

[lenzpolzin]

why, though? not like she can reach it.

[stgermaine]

I don't know. Family matters. Personal pride. She lost someone to the rift. Maybe she's looking for answers, maybe she thinks if she becomes a liminal she'll get back the internship.

[rainbowfish]

She might have lost someone to the rift. We don't know what happened to him.

[stgermaine]

Alright, we can just put a question mark on that one.

[rainbowfish]

[...] Still, she might not be thinking rationally about it.

[stgermaine]

It's hard to think rationally at the best of times when you're that age.

[lenzpolzin]

we know anything else about that? or him?

[rainbowfish]

He went missing a couple years ago. Never found, never reached out to his family. For what it's worth his wife mentioned that she thought he'd just left to "figure things out" at first.

[lenzpolzin]

not worth much, is it? could mean anything. [...] doesn't matter now, anyway.

[lenzpolzin]

[...] fuck. yeah. plenty of reasons to do something stupid.