[b]Eli:[/b]

She blinks. “Who’s Crystal?”

[b]Leather:[/b]

“Normally it is.” He admits, too quietly for anyone else to hear, rubbing the back of his neck with a towel. “That’s just meant for the backend. When you asked for adding the hacking stuff… I mean, one of your prompts was ‘ask for permission’. That’s the only reason it would have come up.” 

Then, in his own defense. “I’m sorry if that seemed insensitive. That wasn’t me making light of a real case. For me, this is about what I could have done if I was there. This is a version of the world where Rudolph Merkin got to live. Was he a friend of yours?”

[b]Monk:[/b]

Giddy laughs. “That would be how you would do it, wouldn’t it?” She teases, sitting in a lotus position on her floor, hugging herself with all six arms. “You’d want to run yourself how you used to organize us, wouldn’t you?”

The black void face comes out again. This one must be Monkey. “That’s what it felt like building Aevum.”