Yes, it will be time to start the "back log" soon.

[crimson_tsviet_puppet]

[Nexus, still very much in control of her vessel, makes Rosso's face express sadness. This is so not like how Rosso the Crimson would really act. Her eyes do not normally glow white either.]

You must know for yourself that... it wasn't easy to convince Cloud, and Joseph.

[There's worry, deep worry as her speech softens.] I know approaching her will be hard on her... but she will understand. She must.

[Nexus is desperate, and afraid. She must give her Core to someone, and who wouldn't be better than the girl she had made a horrible mistake to have let her visit her old hometown, at the wrong time?]

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[reluctantaccessory]

Approach? What do you mean?

[crimson_tsviet_puppet]

[Nexus recognizes the woman. She has just arrived to her island, right? She'll do all she can to make everything better.

She's trying to save herself from Xargin and the cyborgs--and knows she cannot do it on her own. She cannot protect her Core on her own either.]

A young woman I have wronged, long ago. [Nexus through Rosso looks so guilty as she mentions Mari.] I didn't know that her original home world had been in so much danger.

I'm sorry for all that has followed after that, and I'll need to talk to her.

[reluctantaccessory]

Wait, what?

(This was coming out as nonsense to her.)

But who? Who did you wrong? (Marie frowns feeling herself grow even more confused. She takes a few steps over to Nexus.)

Maybe I can help you look? (Though, if the woman knew the entire story, her offer may be retracted. Marie is still a lot upset about her situation. She would probably instead start to ask dozens of questions and demand she be returned to her own world, even if she would have or even could have simply died there.)

[crimson_tsviet_puppet]

Her name is Mari Broderick... Have you met her? [She smiles sadly to Marie.]

No, but thank you. I know where she is. It's just... She needs to be prepared. I'm letting Cloud talk to her first.

[In knowing all about poor Mari's suffering, Nexus knows the tale is nothing pleasant. Knowing about Xargin, and what he did to her. And before that... It's all very terrible.]