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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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[febrile]

I'm fine. [It's John, after all: if anyone is capable of toppling the poor frellwit even at the worst of times it's her-- and at the best of times she's fairly certain the answer's still the same.] But he isn't.

Look I know you said there was nothing you could do but tell me that assessment's changed in the past few weeks.

[sputnik_shanu]

[Her first instinct is to worry. The drugs can do strange things to people, so she is at least somewhat relieved at the answer for the moment she allows herself.

And then it is business. She mentally tallies her more recent achievements and considers their usefulness.]

How affected is he? How is he acting?

[febrile]

He's always been strange [Everyone on Moya knows that well enough by now, whether they stay on for one solar day or a hundred at least.] but right now he's-- different. Unhinged, almost like he's afraid to be left alone.

In fact I'm certain he's afraid to be left alone.

[sputnik_shanu]

Agitated?

[She has been working on an approximation of Noranti's fyang powder over the last few weeks which is finally far enough into a stage of refinement that it has been tested on humans with good results.]

I have something that should calm him down. Hopefully even let him sleep until everything else in his system wears off.

[It is an offer, if Aeryn wants it.]

[febrile]

Amongst...other things. [Honestly it's hard to tell how much is the city's influence and how much is John's inherent, unsuppressed emotion.

But Sikozu's offer provides more than moderate relief: has Aeryn exhaling audibly as concern bleeds off.]

So it does wear off?

[sputnik_shanu]

[She can guess at it, she's seen enough re-ed victims to know a few things.]

Yes. The compound combinations they use seem to vary from person to person, but it normally wears off within a few hours, a day at the most.

[febrile]

Meet me at John's apartment in an arn, then. Bring as much as you think ought to keep him under for a full solar day. [She nearly suggests bringing Scorpius to inspect any potential neural damage, but the idea's discarded when she remembers how violently he'd reacted to the thought of it.]

I doubt he'd hurt you, but I imagine he'll stay calm if I'm true to my word and stay present throughout.

[sputnik_shanu]

He doesn't worry me.

[She's pretty sure even she could take John out if she really needed to. Though she be but little, she is fierce. She can thank John for that little bit of his people's literature, too.]

Which apartment is his?

[Since he was pretty squirrelly about it before.]

[febrile]

Building eight, second floor, fourth door.

[He might bite at her about it later, but desperate times, desperate measures and so on and so forth.]

[sputnik_shanu]

All right. I will be there in an arn.