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[sleepdarts]

( The device is carefully placed before the video starts, letting it show only the piece of paper in question. It's not quite the wanted signs of the past but it'll do the job.

ستة وسبعون

76. She's calling him out.

The video only stays on for five seconds before it switches off. It's done its job )

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[sleepdarts]

( Ana expects a test, and truthfully this whole place being real... perhaps it being real, and Jack being real, would be a far better thing than it not. So there's a test, and perhaps that is something that shows he is also real )

We had just met up. That world needed us.

( Enough details for him to know something, but not too many in case it wasn't him )

( text )

[sleepdarts]

I could, but that is not my reason for this.

( Talking of suspense... )

( text )

[desynched]

Trying to get an idea of what we're like, then?

[sleepdarts]

It must have been difficult without her family here.

[sleepdarts]

( Keeping up this pretence is actually quite difficult )

That is how it started, but it did become something more. Many have recognised the number alone.

( And not for number reasons )

[sleepdarts]

المعرفة هي مفتاح.

( text )

[sleepdarts]

( Oh, Jesse, you had to go be lovely to an old woman now )

Perhaps asking would grant you an answer.

[sleepdarts]

Perhaps it is an important number.

( text )

[sleepdarts]

Unfamiliar places call for such tactics.

( text )

[desynched]

What's your assessment so far?

( text )

[sleepdarts]

More people need to learn other languages.

( Did she expect a real answer? )

( text )

[desynched]

[ She can hope ok. ]

I know the important words in Arabic. Hello, goodbye, where's the loo, and a bunch of swears. I picked it up from soldiers, which is why I know so many swears.

[ Overwatch agents have potty mouths, Ana. ]

( text )

[sleepdarts]

( Uhm excuse Ana is a very sweet-

-nah she definitely taught Lena a lot of those things... )

مرحبا عزيزى.

( She may be checking her story now, as any non-friend would )

[lavelly]

Someone to whom seventy six has some meaning. Well, you obviously don't want to explain yourself, so I won't ask further. I hope you manage to catch the right person's attention.

[sleepdarts]

I know that I will. They are already here.

( text )

[desynched]

[ It takes her a few seconds to translate it-- she's a little rusty-- but her eyes widen slightly.

"Hello, dear."

Ana. ]

مرحبا كابتن

[ "Hello, Captain" ]

( text )

[sleepdarts]

( Good girl )

I am glad to see that it was not all lost.

[mylawn]

[The answer is sparse, but Jack can parse enough from it. He knows she's just being cautious, so he reaches up to pull his mask off, letting it fall to his side.]

I don't remember that.

[Jack is more than paranoid enough for the both of them, enough to know that Ana won't find it a comforting answer. He's still trying to put it together, himself. Did she go back through the Ingress and experience what would've happened to him, had he never been brought here in the first place?]

Was just starting to look for you, when I got pulled here. First the ship, now this. It's been seven months.

[Give or take.]

[flashbanging]

All righty. What the hell are you tryin' to say?

[sleepdarts]

( One day she will put some manners into you )

Seventy-six.

[flashbanging]

[ He's got excellent manners! When he knows who he's talking to, anyway ... ]

Huh.

[ Arabic for 76. It's not too hard to put together. ]

Thought you'd got a move on, ma'am.

[sleepdarts]

I found I had misplaced him.

[flashbanging]

No, that jackass is here all right. Got a cute little farm and everythin'.

( text ) ; private

[desynched]

[ She doesn't want to ruin Ana's air of mystery, so she takes it over to a private channel. ]

I still have a lot to learn.

So, what does it say?

( text )

[redshitlord]

ok but not all human writing looks like that???