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I'll keep this short and to the point to give you guys time to strategize, catch up, all of that.

Congrats on your Magatus missions. Looks like everything's been cleared out as best as we can, but the region's been evacuated thanks to a couple of factors.

The new problem is we just added a bunch of people to city limits.

I've got some good news and some bad news.

Bad news: need some people out in Pesgare to do some deepdiving and recovery. It doesn't look like there's anything out there that'll kill you, but I need something from down there to stabilize Recollé itself.

Good news: got the subway working. Did you know it was just about coding? That's a little crazy to me and okay, I might have found out on accident, but…whatever was blocking exits from the city was just a false creation.

It means getting out of here and checking out the progress outside. The trains will be ready for departure in about a week, I'll get some maps drawn up and everything. I could really use some of you on location scouting.

Finally…who knows about machinery? We've got a problem we should probably look into, but keeping track of that eye's a huge pain in the ass.

Discuss, get in touch with me, prepare. You know the drill.

Zee Carlisle
Hiring Manager
Retr

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No. Did you need something?

i was thinking, so you can come get me if im about to miss the wedding

but if you're offering
id love a turkey leg

Then I’ll trade you a spare key to your place for a turkey leg.

deal
meet where?

[ she is for sure just going to give him her own personal key ]

[ he is expecting a twist somewhere but where ]

A good place for good turkey?

gisneyland...

Whole Foods then.

ok brt
oh bring scissors?
cant find mine

[ going to totally

just buy safety scissors on the way over ]

They’re shaped like dragonflies jsyk

how beautiful

[ and eventually.....
as he approaches whole foods...
he'll see something on the ground. at first glance it might appear to be a trail of spilled liquid extending several feet from the sliding door, but from closer up it looks like some sort of banner or pile of fabric?... nah, it's hair.

it continues past the door and well into the store. ]

[ violet u r gros

and that’s not exactly the first thing you expect walking into Whole Foods. the cleaners are on their way to swipe the mysterious mess into the trash, but before that . . .

he’s going to follow it. ]

[ of course, it leads to violet!!
all of it is still attached directly to her head!!
she's at the olive bar, daintily serving herself (and then devouring) one olive at a time. ]

[ all suspects clear. the hair is hers. there’s something a little gross about someone else’s hair no longer attached to their body. good lord. eren comes up next to her, holding the scissors (dragonfly shaped) by the tip.

you know, all that shedding can be worrying at a medical perspective. with a free hand, he swishes at the ends of her hair. ]

How much meat have you been eating?

[ that could be like

a protein deficiency]

[ fortunately for eren's delicate sensibilities, all the hair is in fact still attached to violet's body (specifically, her scalp). it's just... gotten... really, really long. like, say, fifty-plus feet long.

and not a single split end, either.
and look at that shine--that body!
too bad no one's shooting a shampoo commercial right now. ]

Eren.
These are olives.

[ i somehow god damn misread holy shit this is all her hair

still attached to her skull

fuck that he’s going to try an reel this shit in like he’s in a hair rolling marathon. ]

Why didn’t you cut it—?!

[ HE DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS

HER HAIR ]

[ she stares at him with eyes somehow full of both scorn and pity. as though he's a helpless baby animal that just pissed in her favorite shoes. ]

I told you already.
I couldn't find my scissors.

[ but in the next instant she's gone and ahead and grabbed the dragonfly ones. and she puts them to work right away, too, making an attempt to hack off all her hair no more than an inch or so from the root. right in the middle of an establishment that sells food she does this!

but they are only safety scissors, and her hair's pretty thick, and she's not really being strategic about it by only trying to clip through relatively small sections at a time...

dejected, having accomplished little, she lets the dragonfly scissors clatter to the ground. ]