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[ Because she's reminded of the technology back home, this should be easy. It's not her first time she's had to make a call using Skype, or something similar. Video is the option Chloe opts for. ]

My name's Chloe― Chloe Decker. [ She doesn't notice it, the self-conscious gesture of tucking her hair behind her ear, but she sets her jaw as she pushes on, voice unwavering. Completely the opposite to how she feels on the inside. ] I guess you could say I arrived here just the same as a lot of you have, as crazy as it seems. If no one minds answering a few questions, I'd really appreciate it.

Are there any parents on this ship, mothers and/or fathers? Did you... Are there any children on-board?

[ 'What happens to them when you agree to the contract? Where do they go?' ― extra questions she bites her tongue on. Instead Chloe gives a smile that's barely a twitch of her lips. ]

Again― thanks.

[ Obviously she's not ready to end the face-time just yet as she pauses. ]

...I had a gun and a pair of handcuffs with me. Someone please tell me this place comes with a 'lost and found'?

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And that must make you their new daddy.

[ More like a shit-dad, with the way he's acting about it. ]

I'm not here to pitch you anything. I'm trying to find my daughter.

[He snorts.]

Something like that.

[Nate's expression shifts to something like concern when she continues speaking, though.]

Oh, shit, okay...uh...what's her name? What does she look like?

Her name's Beatrice. Trixie for short. Average height for someone who's seven. Dark hair and dark eyes. She's...lost a few baby teeth recently...

[ Baby teeth. Chloe is talking about her baby. Her baby who's likely stuck back in that hangar with a psycho and there's nothing she can do from up here in space. ]

She wasn't around anywhere that I saw when I went into that medbay.

Haven't seen anyone who matches that description. [Agh. He hates to say this...] If you can't find her name on the MID listing then she probably isn't on the ship. I'm sorry.

It's...fine.

[ The kid is smart, she figured out how to use the internet and watch her stupid old movie without Chloe knowing. This MID, Trixie could have it figured out and her voice would be calling on the network. She knows her daughter; if she can use a phone to get an Uber and do online transactions, then yeah. ]

What are the chances of her ending up here like us?

Hard to say. Once the Ingress has picked someone from a particular place in time, it does seem like it'll do it again for more people, but that doesn't always happen. I know more people who haven't been space kidnapped than those who have.

[And one of them is also him.]