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Who: Artemis and any close CR getting involved in the crazy train. Eventually Princess Tutu!
What: An intervention
When: Sunday
Where: CH5 Floor 4, primarily. Occasionally various encounters around town
Summary: Something's different about Artemis and her friends are starting to worry about her. But something's up that's not for them to fix.
Rating: PG-ish? Maybe PG-13 at the most.

[Action: Sunday, June 16]
[Artemis arrives back in Luceti Sunday morning looking tired and dirty and even more evasive and wary than when she'd left for the mission over a week before. Anyone intercepting her on the way home or at home is likely to get brushed off as quickly as possible as she locks herself in for a hot shower and several straight hours of uninterrupted sleep.

But even after some rest, Artemis is suspicious, defensive and decidedly close-lipped about what is obviously wrong. Even if she's not entirely sure what that might be herself. And if confronted enough times... for once, Artemis's first instinct is going to be flee rather than fight. At least at first...]

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She's back now. I don't know if you saw her today, but she's pretty much locked herself in her room for now. She didn't say anything about going out again, but I'm really hoping to get whatever it is worked out before she can.

So, if you see her and she says anything, or does something you think might help, would you let me know?

I will.

[Her word was given quickly, with a quick nod of agreement. Grey eyes flashed with worry as she replayed their interaction earlier in the day. How brief the interaction had been. And how much it had puzzled Katniss at the time, wondering what had happened to make the other girl so reclusive.]

...does she normally keep to herself so much?

Not like this. She does keep things bottled up sometimes. [Like when she found out Connor and M'gann were together. But even then, she hadn't turned down Zatanna's offer of a girl's night.] But this is taking it a lot further than she ever has before. She's isolating herself completely, even from me.

There doesn't seem to be a cause for it, either. She just left while most of the village was possessed.

[Except, possessed or not, don't the Malnosso play their tricks sometimes regardless? She was away on a mission. They could have done anything to her without any of them knowing. Maybe they had kidnapped her while she was away. Experimented on her.

Done something to make Artemis act like this.

She scowled.] That doesn't matter.

What do you mean? [Hey, Zatanna's not going to turn down any leads. And the way Katniss scowls like that, seems suddenly angry? Makes Zatanna think she's gotten an idea.]

They'll do things to us anyway.

[Hadn't she seen that? Henry thinking that he was older? Sabriel shrunk down to a near impossible size? All because the Malnosso... no, who damn well knew what they were thinking? Entertainment, most likely. It was always the simplest explanation. Because any damn Gamemaker loved to find their entertainment in the suffering of others, didn't they?]

Kidnap us to experiment on. Whatever. It doesn't matter if there isn't a shift going on.

Yeah, I heard that. [But she's also heard other things that make sense too, and maybe it's wrong, but Zatanna kind of hopes its one of the ones where she can do something about it.] How long do those sort of things last? It's already been a couple of weeks.

[She frowned, wishing she had more of a concrete answer to give the other girl. But when it came down to it, she never paid all that much attention to how long these experiments lasted. None of them had ever directly affected her. Why should she care?]

I don't know.

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