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[@SporkoBug], [@Days], [@WhiteAngel25]

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[quote=Maw][i][color=lightblue]"How long without food?"[/color][/i][/quote]

[b]“My poor, dear Maw… If you had just obeyed, you would be here with me, instead of living on the brink of death like a dog.”[/b] Von Galloes said in a cruel tone.

A pause, before Von leaned in from his observation window. [b]“Two years. You've been asleep for two years.”[/b]

[quote=Annalise][color=plum]"Just one from me. How much dark matter energy can your system handle?"[/color][/quote]

Von Galloes stared with mild curiosity, before a notification flashed on his watch, alerting him to the dark matter energy fluctuating in the servers. A low chuckle.

[b]“You clever, [i]stupid[/i] girl.”[/b]

And the simulation disappeared.

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[h3][color=gray]The Real World, Quiet HiveMind Facility[/color][/h3]

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Cosy woke in her own tube, staring out at the shapes through the liquid. There was a gentle hiss as the water levels lowered, resting her feet on the steel floor. Slowly, the hatch door slid opened, and Cosy exited, still dressed in her gala dress. A ginger extrication of the oxygen mask and IVs, dropping them to the side. Cosy gave Nova a grateful smile as she was helped out.

[B]”Thanks, Nova… I think I got muscle atrophy.”[/b]

Cosy, pensive look on her face, moved to stand beside Annalise.

As Annalise moved through the database, she would find the room they were in one of hundreds. There were countless people sleeping away in this facility they found themselves in, each in their own tube, and a group of tubes in a room. However, as she searched, she would come across something very, [i]very[/i] annoying.

They were currently residing in Chicago. Stella, Sabrina, Dex, Allen and Theo were held at another HiveMind Facility in New York. The terminal Annalise had access to would only allow her to view their location. If she wanted to wake them up, she would have to travel there in person.

Dragon and Aurélie were held at a CDE site, high security, and evidently very dangerous to traverse if they were unprepared. The CDE site was located in Paris, at the remains of the Louvre Museum.

The terminal held a lot more information of people in tubes. The people who were sleeping were in the thousands… in the [i]millions[/i].

Upon waking up, everyone would have the strong sensation of not being entirely… whole. Like a part of their minds were lost to the stratosphere. Concerning… 

The room they were in wasn't remarkable besides the tubes and the terminal. But the group would encounter another problem as everyone was coming out of their tubes.

Nick… Nick wasn't waking up.