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[awakenings]

[The little hologram that shows up on everyone's NV is that of Re-l Mayer, wearing a pair of jeans and a tank top, and not looking like she's bothered in the least by the temperatures. More importantly, she looks agitated, though it's difficult to see too much detail considering the hologram isn't very large.]

Am I the only one going out of my mind over here? The same goddamn thing, day after day after day... It's worse than home! At least there I could take a day off without feeling guilty because the same people keep dying and getting hurt. No one's listening. No one's believing anything. I've even had to resort to looking up a fortune teller and someone with precognition powers to ask if they see anything in the future, some sort of disaster or time loop--

[She sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose.]

I just look insane. I've had to watch the same accident happen every day. I've gotten the same call about a couple that keep getting hit by the same truck speeding out of some parking lot.

[It's grating on her. The helplessness is mounting, stifling. She can save a few people but everyone else dies anyway. And it just keeps happening without any way to stop it.]

I want any officer who can hear this to meet me tomorrow morning outside of where that traffic jam is going to be around 9am. We can set up one or two traffic cops and hopefully something will change. If not, we can intervene this time. All of us. [They have enough magic users and powerful people on their team that they should be able to stop it.] And then we can move on from there. I don't care if this needs to be repeated every single goddamn day until something happens. I can't do this alone.

[She folds her arms across her chest, though it might look like she's almost hugging herself.]

Please tell me someone's figured out what the hell the cause of all of this is. We have enough geniuses in this city that it shouldn't be too hard.

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[ace_of_knaves]

You're not.

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[awakenings]

I'm not what.

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[cognidis]

I'm coming.

[ He doesn't look that great, either, but mostly he's just worried about her. ]

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[awakenings]

[Somewhat relieved:]

Thank you. If we're all here around seven in the morning and just wait around, it might give us enough time to figure out what happens to cause the accident.

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[runebladeknight]

I'll be there. [She's not sure what any of her magic can do to circumvent this, but she'll find some way.]

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[awakenings]

Thank you, Celes. I appreciate it.

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[underachiever]

I'll help.

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[awakenings]

Thank you. You can help with the accident or with any number of the other issues going on in the city. Whatever floats your boat.

[antedupmyheart]

I've not heard the reason, but the effect is easy enough to outline, should you require a more definite definition.

[awakenings]

Go ahead. I'm all ears.

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[ace_attorney]

Maybe you could slash their tires or something.

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[ace_attorney]

(...Wait, I really shouldn't suggest that kind of thing, should I. At least I can't get disbarred from a bar I've not been... barred ...

You know, why do "disbarred" and "barred" mean the same thing?)

...Hahaha, or, you know, something like that, but not criminal.

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[beenwaitinglong]

[Siiiiip.]

My pills keep refilling themselves.

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[awakenings]

That's...unnerving.

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[leading3men]

You can say that again. It's like Morning Edition, but without the cat.

[ She frowns. ] I haven't really been keeping up with the news, this whole thing just threw me in a loop. No pun intended. But I know about the crash. Can it really be preventable here?

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[awakenings]

The what?

If we block off traffic, it's possible that we'll be able to slow everyone down and work from there.

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[doeswhathewants]

I take it this means you will not be participating in the monster truck destruction derby tomorrow morning on the main roads?

You really ought to look on the bright side. Anything that goes wrong today will have a fresh chance of being solved tomorrow.

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[awakenings]

A monster what? No, no! Nothing like that is going to happen!

And one of these days, it's not going to recycle back around, and people are going to be really dead.

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[cowboycop]

Y'got me, miss Re-l. I'll stand there all day if I goddamn have to. [He's been rather unsettled by this whole thing too, and it shows a bit on the video.

But after he agrees to help, his voice grows deeply serious.] Y'ain't goin' nuts. If you are then we all are. Just... take a deep breath er somethin', all right? [A little bit of a mutter that's barely heard.] Yer worryin' me.

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[awakenings]

I'd appreciate it if you would, Jake.

[She frowns sharply, glancing away.]

I'm fine. I'm just...stressed out, that's all. I'll be fine when all of this ends.

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[countsrabbits]

Re-l? Are you okay?

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[awakenings]

[She exhales before she answers the girl.]

I'm fine. I'm just restless, Pino.

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[terminates]

[ After browsing that thread with Joker and Edgeworth -- ]

Don't get too carried away.

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[awakenings]

[...Thanks, Slade. You're the best teacher. Really.]

I'll keep it in mind.

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[doctor_seward]

It is..quite peculiar, admittedly. The same patients...Over and over. The same routine. I have rather taken to seeing how far this extends to.

Not coming to work hasn't affected much, other than a phone call by the asylum to see if I hadn't gotten involved in that automobile incident you described. What do you suppose is the cause, Miss Re-l?

[awakenings]

You actually took a day off from work? I'm surprised. I'm sure you could probably write down their diagnoses every morning and send it in, though, until the date changes.

I really don't know what could be the cause, though. A man said that there's something wrong with the flow of time. Until it's fixed, the day is going to keep looping around again and again. He didn't give me any other information besides that, unfortunately.

[gaveherwings]

[Well. In a call for not only genius, but someone to keep her reassured and in balance...

Daedalus is a little late in responding, and that's very unusual for him. He's a little harried with exhaustion and slumped over in an office that's not his own, in scrubs and gloves and with the wailing of infants in the background.

One might recall that previously, Daedalus has been told to stay clear of the NICU.]

It will always be difficult, when you know a truth that no one else can really quite grasp nor take at face value-

That's...why I try to believe so many things which seem impossible.

But you're not alone in this Re-l. We're all here. And we're all well aware- if not able to change things. Yet.

...I've been trying to mull it all over myself, but it- well it really isn't my field... ["...Of expertise" hangs silently off his lips with a little sheepishness- all three of them tend to use that excuse when they're out of their element.]

However. I think you are going about this exactly the right intentions. Where you're best able to change things. Leave the quantum to...people who have experience with that.

I'll try and have an EMT dispatch ready for you and on standby, just in case things can't be stopped.

[awakenings]

[And even if Daedalus is late to the game and quietly praising her, he's still silencing a lot of her doubts and fears in just a few short seconds. And he's openly encouraging her plan of action, which is even better.

She gives him a simple smile.]

Thanks. I don't know if we'll be able to pull this off, but we're going to try our best.

How have you been dealing with things at work, Daedalus?

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[makethemguilty]

[Because he is sick and tired of waking up in the hospital and being checked out again over and over, ending up somewhere completely different from where he last was every morning for the last few days. Why not blame the thing that brought him here...Or at least that was the cause for it, according to everyone else.]

What of that...machine they refer to as the Core? Has anyone bothered investigating that? The newsfeed keeps replaying some ridiculous account about a creature breaking into the access tunnel, I believe. Along with said creature vanishing in a blue light due to some sort of "defense mechanism". Could that have had any effect, Corporal?

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[awakenings]

I know that it's possible, but going too close to it could easily hurt someone. Still...it's a viable theory.

[Maybe she will have to ask Lucifer to help her get down there.]

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[beyondmeasure]

There might not be anything anyone can do to correct it. That's why even the most skilled of witches and wizards are reluctant to interfere with the passage of time. [She's speaking in a rush, but takes a fleeting pause for the breath required to continue.] But I think it's absolutely brilliant.

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[awakenings]

The repetition? Why?

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[beardedveteran]

I'll be there! [ Although his tone is businesslike for this time of night, his look seems to soften briefly. She gets stressed more often than it seems she would... ] Sure lots of other officers will be, too.

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[awakenings]

All right. I hope you'll be healed when midnight strikes.

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[meaculpable]

It is rather grating, isn't it?

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[awakenings]

Terribly so. I'd probably be getting more work done if I simply stared at the wall and counted the spots on it.

[swordandbells]

Thank goodness someone else has noticed! I thought I was going mad.

[awakenings]

No, you're not the only one. Several people have noticed.

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[kal_el]

If experience has taught me anything, it's that you need to be careful when you interfere with time.

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[awakenings]

This has happened to you before?