[OPEN] That sign isn't for me because I didn't read it

Listening to Gideon talk pissed Cam off more -- until they heard Mabel's name, which set them back, their eyes wide. "Did you say Mabel? I haven't seen Mabel in ... God, seasons. And now she's dead?"

Cam's shock and horror was obvious. To hear that the dead Ascended was not a faceless stranger but someone they knew, someone they liked ... Mabel had never been exactly friendly; she'd always seemed a little distant, a little sad, almost as if she carried some great burden Cam didn't know about. But she certainly hadn't deserved to die.

Looking at Gideon, Cam spat, voice heavy with loathing, "Mabel was a fucking teenager. You kill kids, is that how you wage your war?"

They would have offered even more remonstrances had Bartholomew and the others not come to their side to do it for them. Looking around, Cam felt warmth fill their heart at the sight of these people who had come to their aid, especially because they were all strangers. (Wait, Bartholomew looked a lot like Nate; maybe they were related?) In fact, when Ray changed forms, Cam realized that she was probably Attuned, nominally a follower of the Old Gods, but she'd come to their side to defend the Ascended. That meant a lot to them. They'd felt so alone ...

There was just one more thing for Cam to do, then. Reaching out in their mind to Wessex -- and hoping that they were doing this right, since they'd only tried to telepathically contact Wessex once before, and that had been when she was standing a foot away -- they sent, Hey, there's a man here in the Torchline marketplace who says, uh ... It's a lot. He killed Mabel, Mabel killed his friend, and someone who sounds a lot like you attacked him? It's kind of winding down -- a bunch of us yelled at him and now they're escorting him away -- but I figured I should still let you know.

cameron ?

"Cameras" by Ennev is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0