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[hacker]

our own surveillance

[pajarita]

ha
so

i might've
thought about that one before

[hacker]

how'd you do it without dismantling a tablet for the mic & camera?
wait
what went wrong?

[pajarita]

nah, that's about the sum of it
dismantle tablets and set them up

nothing went wrong, i just haven't done it

[hacker]

people have been disappearing; their tablets have to be going somewhere.
removing the mic/camera and wiring it to feed a/v to one of our screens would be cake.
maybe it could even get us a glimpse of the staff

[pajarita]

who'd be checking the feed?
where would we rewire the feed to?
idk how much storage space is on one tablet, and what happens if the owner of said tablet disappears and so does our way of keeping an eye on the watchers?

[hacker]

i'd check it. idk about storage but i could program it to dump footage after a few days. cycle it out.

[pajarita]

a while ago there was a guy who asked about surveillance
i didn't share my ideas then

[hacker]

got a name? why was he asking?

[pajarita]

cage
he wanted a way to keep tabs on everyone, suggested he'd keep a look on the footage

the point being, i don't trust him
and you, i like you skye, i do?
but i know close to nothing about you
and you know close to nothing about me

i'd find it easier to rig up surveillance in the common areas, where our mystery staff might appear
but not hallways

[hacker]

Harsh but fair.

[ It won't stop her. Not when she's not only trying to get a glimpse at the staff, but also keep tabs on Ward. :'| ]

I haven't heard from him lately. Think he's ok?

[pajarita]

it'd be ironic, wouldn't it?
the guy who asks for surveillance to keep tabs on who leaves ends up being the one leaving with nobody realizing it

[hacker]

Look I get you didn't trust him but I did
he was my friend ok? so if you could tone down whatever weird joy you're getting out of this

[pajarita]

weird joy?
what the hell?

[hacker]

you're sitting here laughing about irony when we don't even know what happens to the people who vanish
he could be dead

[pajarita]

i'm not laughing about irony and i get that he was your friend, but don't assume i'm some monster
i'll look for him if you want
just

it could be that he's just back to wherever he was from
i have a friend who came here twice and he'd just gotten out of this place

[hacker]

for cage, that wouldn't be much better.
he was stuck in some nuclear winter bunker reagan set up called mt weather

[pajarita]

[fuck.

fuck.

you know that feeling, when the ground disappears from under your feet? yes. that feeling.

that's the feeling of dread and rage the boils up inside raven right now. she talked to the guy. she could've shared her ideas with that guy. and he would've been quiet, so quiet and sly, pretending to be nice? pretending like he wasn't murdering her people, keeping them prisoners, killing off grounders.]

i was wrong
i do hope he is dead somewhere

[hacker]

raven what the HELL

[pajarita]

THAT FRIEND OF YOURS?
is MURDERING
mine

[hacker]

[ the icy wave of realization is too familiar. once again, fooled by someone who's not what they seemed. it takes her a minute to rally a response, fighting through her dread. ]

ok
ok CALM DOWN
WHAT are you talking about?

[pajarita]

[how is she even typing, when what she wants to do is turn the hotel upside down just to find him
alive
and take care of that.]

the ark sent 100 delinquents to earth to test that it was inhabitable
later on, i went down in a rocket of my own because the morons listened to another moron and started taking off their monitoring bracelets which made everyone think they were dead
and the ark wasn't sustainable anymore, we were going to die in space - you see why earth was important to everyone
when the hundred of us were on the ground we thought the biggest enemy we had were grounders -- you've met their commander, lexa
but we were wrong

mt weather? that nuclear bunker?
they came in after a battle, took all of my friends
clarke got out to warn us

your pal's people drained grounders for blood
and likely plan to do the same with mine

[hacker]

[ wow she's going to throw up.

no wait that's not some hyperbole about how emotional she is. she's actually going to throw up. there's real nausea rising in her chest right now. ]

drain their
why?
why would they do that? if there's really that few humans left if things were so bad why turn against the people from the ark?

[pajarita]

i don't know
shitty human beings??

because that's how they heal
live longer

[hacker]

that sick son of a bitch
he kept talking about survival
he never told me what the cost was