[Mostly Lapis doesn't use the network -- avoids it when she can. Maybe it's how lost he sounds, maybe it's the mention of shapeshifting, maybe because the helplessness is an echo of how she so often feels . . . but she answers. Her voice is a quiet thread over the network, as though so easily she could be spooked.]
. . . Hello. [The tone rises at the end, almost a question.]
no subject
. . . Hello. [The tone rises at the end, almost a question.]
They . . . make us wait. For opportunities.
Or . . . we're supposed to.
[This concept of "supposed to" is important.]