So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

Comments

[subcircuits]

"You had Lightning," he points out gently. "Roland, Eva, all of the team leaders still here, you can learn from them. You don't have to figure this out alone."

Otoha's request catches Devero by surprise, and his eyes are wide and vulnerable before his expression goes serious. He hadn't been including himself among the 'not alone' grouping he'd just listed-- what does he know about leading? Devero. But keep an eye on him, make sure he doesn't start going too hard on his teammates? That, Devero knows he's qualified for.

"Of course," he says with a grave nod. "I can do that for you."

[bakegarasu]

"Yeah, I... I guess maybe I should talk to them when I can..." Talking is... hard. But the red team's stereotype might work well for him there - they're not known as the best in terms of communicating. Not as a team, at least.

"You're... I trust you. You've got a normal sense of empathy and decency from what I can tell. ... Kinda screwed up measure I've got, but still. ... You're a good person."

[subcircuits]

Devero reaches out and grips Otoha's forearm in a brief squeeze. "Thank you," he says, sincerely touched by his friend's words-- and faith in him. "I-- I won't let you down." That's a pretty big commitment he's making, to keep an eye on how Otoha leads a team that isn't his, but he'll do his damndest to honor it now that he has.

[bakegarasu]

"I know you won't. I mean... it'll probably be obvious if I'm doing something stupid. You know I'm not good at subtle." Other than his poker face, he's really not that kind of guy.