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[tenthtimeisthecharm]

There is a brief pause filled with audible clicks and thuds, followed by the slightly echoey acoustics that come from someone recording audio in a large room. "Hello hello! You've reached Dr. Velocity! Feel free to leave a message or a video or whatever here, and I'll do my very best to respond promptly! And if it this is about the stickers, Ratchet, I didn't do it! Love and love and love!"

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[mosquitobyte]

Hey beautiful, I found something that might interest you.

I've been keeping an ear to the ground, so to speak, on any activity regarding that new slaverlord, Writhe, and I think I caught something. You'll need to go check it out yourself to know for sure though.

[tenthtimeisthecharm]

[There was a pause of about thirty seconds wherein Velocity had to press her datapad to her face after reading the first two words and squeak out a very unsteady "He doesn't mean it, he's teasing," to herself before she could calm down enough to lower her datapad and read the rest]

OH. That is very very interesting, you were right! Thank you for coming to me about this, though I-

[Another, much briefer pause, before she sent another text]

What's the something that caught your attention? I'll handle it, or at least get the wheels started turning.

[mosquitobyte]

Slaverlord frequencies are very hard to get into, and very dangerous, so I wasn't able to stay for very long, but I caught mention that Slaverlord Writhe was taking interest in a high school called St. Umi's Academy on Mythos, a Viperkin colony world. I wasn't able to find out why he's there on the broadcast, but I did look through the student list, and one name sticks out to me:

Marie Nébuleuse du Crépuscule, youngest daughter of Lord Acumen Nébuleuse du Crépuscule.

I read the report of your last mission. Slaverlord Writhe had a special interest in her, didn't he?

In any case, I think it's enough to take a team to go check it out. I'd suggest going in as students. Should be fun, yeah?

[tenthtimeisthecharm]

Youre right. Every single part of that sounds worse than the rest, but at least if we know the target we'll have a much better chance to prevent it!

[Velocity didn't send it early this time, even though her hands shook and an expression of the most profound and quickly growing dismay had her gnawing at her lower lip]

And it! Um! Yeah! Yeah it will be really fun and exciting and I foresee no issues at all with this being a thing that I will be doing. Your idea is a good one! Thank you, um. Very, clever person. Very very! No way I would've learned about this on my own!