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All I'd heard was there was some kind of Uno reverse kidnapping situation Rust refused help with. Don't think I'm in his inner circle. He barely talks to me.

[ He wouldn't know the first thing about what Rust is up to if not for Randvi, and even she doesn't seem to know what happened with Salamanca nor what's actually going on with Rust and Shaw. Neither of them have seemed keen on being part of the airfield crew. Which is fine. They're hardly going to force their help on the unwilling. K won't, at least. That includes Chloe. ]

Is THAT why you felt the need to escape your own rescue? Because you thought Squalo and I were going to, what, kidnap you too and hand you over to the cop? Even if Rust had come after you, I don't know what's given you the impression I would've let him do anything to you. That wasn't just Taissa standing in the way of what Squalo wanted to do to you.

He called me, Salamanca, that night at camp, to warn me the cop went through his shit. Saw our messages.

He was hurt bad. I wanted to go out and find him, but they're both fucking idiots so he got left too close to the cabin. You know that thing would have done even worse, made it last longer, so I had to talk him through his exit. How could I stay, after that?

Lazarevic was a fucking war criminal and even he didn't kneecap the guy he cut up.

I barely know you! I don't know what any of you will do. You protected me when you didn't know who I was, but I hear people on here sometimes talking about criminals like they're animals in the zoo and I don't know what any of you would do to me.

I didn't even know this curse shit was possible.

You're saying Salamanca was beaten so severely that suicide seemed like his best option? Why not just kill him at that point. That's fucked up. Humans are fucked up. I can barely wrap my head around any of the things you inflict on each other.

That's a leap assuming the rest of us are on board with torture that we weren't even aware of. Or I wasn't. But I'm willing to bet it isn't exactly public knowledge.

What kind of messages did you exchange with Salamanca that make you think you'd be subject to the same thing? Do you think Rust actually is after you?

[ He doesn't know where either of them are, so can't even help rule it out as a possibility. And given his own experience with human cops and barely knowing Rust, he feels uncomfortably uncertain about the man's character. He'd expressed as much to Taissa previously, but this new information has really thrown him. Whatever happened between Rust and Salamanca must have been... Well, more than what it was presented to be on the network, to say the least. ]

He couldn’t walk. I didn't know what else to do.

I don't know! He sent all those messages about Salamanca privately, he could have been saying anything! You guys had to know he didn't just get all that shit out of him by asking nicely. Come on.

Look, I don't want to talk about it. I knew he wasn't a cop the whole time and I was trying to warn him off that guy’s grifter bullshit, that's all. It doesn't matter. He disappeared anyway. Right in front of me. Everything is so fucked up, I don't understand.

Those two were joined at the hip, seemed very friendly with each other. You saw how Salamanca acted around him. Wasn't subtle. Nothing that would lead me to assume the information could've only been acquired through torture rather than given voluntarily, in confidence. Though now I'm wondering if Rust even tried the voluntary method first.

Grifter bullshit?

[ So Rust and Salamanca might have been manipulating each other? It would make sense, and only further convinces him of how fucked up humans as a species are. Who wastes their time playing elaborate mind games when they should be focusing on escaping this damned island. Of course, K doesn't know the full extent of everything, nor quite how deep Salamanca's gay crisis had gone. ]

So he was revived and disappeared afterward. Did Taissa also see him disappear? [ Or did Chloe hallucinate all of it? ] Maddy, MZ114C, I think she disappeared around the same time. She wandered back to the airfield yesterday with no memory of what happened. Salamanca might turn up in a similar fashion.

Right, you saw them. You notice how that cop was winding him up? Brushing his arm and all that. Lots of cops do that shit to get your guard down. Non-cops too. I was worried, and for good reason, clearly!

But you worked with cops before, right? You know what it’d take to get cartel affiliation out of someone like that, especially a high-level guy, and I don't think dreamy eyes and well-defined biceps are really enough.

Yeah, Taissa saw him. She saw the cat too. At first I just thought the place we were hiding was fucked up but all these problems followed me when we left. Saw a post about someone coming back. She disappeared? Just like, blink and she's gone?

[ What are the chances Rust might've just been into "Ben" too before suspecting it was all a fake persona? But Chloe's already convinced her version of events is the truth so he keeps that speculation to himself. ]

Based on everything I know about human men, I could argue that attractive features do seem to inhibit their higher brain functions. But you're probably right. Of more immediate relevance is whether you think Rust has any real reason to come after you. Not sure anyone else will really care that you knew Salamanca's real identity all along. Most probably understand friendship and loyalty and why you wouldn't have wanted to rat him out.

You mean Sam Xerxes Ellington or you've picked up another cat...?

[ Cats are a welcome change in topic from Rust and Salamanca's confusing and violent game of gay chicken. He also might be a bit envious Chloe's a cat-magnet. ]

Sounded something like that. She vanished without a trace while travelling with people and just her things were left behind. I know several others have seemingly vanished from the island too, Maddy's just the first confirmed person to come back afterward.

[Look, Chloe agrees with Shaw’s assessment of whether or not Rust’s dick works - best to change the subject probably.]

Certainly did that to Salamanca. Fucking Christ. I don't know though. If he’d come after me or not, if he’d tell other people to come after me. If he's fine unless I try and go to the base cause there's stuff I could steal there. If he’d assume I had some kind of affiliation and try to cut it out of me.

Who? No, not Sam. This fucking cat ghost. I don't know. It didn't have eyes. It dropped me ten feet.

Salamanca didn't leave much behind but he’d only been alive a few days. I'm glad the girl’s ok.

I'll hope he has the sense to leave you be. We all have bigger problems here than trying to play arbiter of justice on the interdimensional island we've been kidnapped to. But what's the plan if he does decide to go after you? Or your plan in general? Going to wander around the island indefinitely, followed by bloody altars and trying to ignore the itching in your head?

[ He doesn't expect he'll be able to convince her to come to the airfield, but she should at least be thinking about these things. ]

This is the first I've heard about there being an eyeless ghost cat here. Beginning to understand why you think you're cursed.

Do you think I’d have texted begging you to uncurse me if I had options???

I'm at the mercy of this thing until it lets me go.

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