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[sputnik_shanu]

This is Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu. Record your message and I will return your correspondence when I am able.

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Barely an hour after her conversation with Scorpius, voice;

[febrile]

Sikozu.

[It's not a friendly greeting. In fact, it's not much of a greeting at all: too tense in all the wrong places, consonants sharp. Pressed.]

[sputnik_shanu]

Aeryn? Are you all right?

[Sikozu can already tell she is not.]

[febrile]

I need you to tell me the truth. [They're close enough for it, aren't they? That Sikozu wouldn't lie to her regardless of her affiliation.

Regardless of his actions.] Has Scorpius done something to Crichton?

[sputnik_shanu]

[The truth can be such a dangerous thing to ask for and Sikozu braces herself for it. Difficult or not, Aeryn deserves to hear whatever truth she can give her.

Her pause is heavy and silent and a few long microts pass before Sikozu breathes.]

Yes, I believe it is possible. I do not know the particulars, but I believe they fought. I think it likely Scorpius took the worse end, considering how I found him, but I have not seen Crichton to be sure. Is he all right?

[She makes no excuses, takes no pains to explain that Scorpius was not in his right mind at the time. That information can come later if Aeryn wants it, but for now her bare knowledge is what she presents.]

[febrile]

[Weighted pause, audible exhale where Aeryn shuts her eyes and breathes out to let realization sink in: he'd been telling the truth - in whole or in part.

But it doesn't change the fact that John's not there.]

Thank you. [She drops back, tucking her the side of her face down into the fabric of his pillow.] If you see him, tell me.

[Amd with that, she severs the line.]