[ This is a lot of information. Some of it she has context for. Some of it may as well be written in another language.
And the thing is, she gets it. Penny doesn't hate easily, and if asked she'd say she doesn't hate anyone whatsoever. But Cinder... Cinder is someone she thinks she could hate one day, and it's not hard for her to see how someone else could. She believes (she tells herself) that Pietro is okay and survived the slow descent of Amity Arena just fine, but if Cinder had successfully killed him...
But she can't think about that because there's a single line in this explanation that stands out, something that she can't get past even with everything else Neo just told her. It's nice to know that she's learned to let go, that she's even friends with Ruby, that she's not a threat here anymore. But... ]
What exactly do you mean 'I might have gotten Yang and Ruby killed'?
[ Maybe it was an accident - Penny wants it to have been an accident - but she's certain that it's not. ]
[... She sighed. Well, it was a fair question. And she didn't know where Penny was in the timeline, so...]
Both Ruby and I are from a point of time when she was rescuing the folks from Atlas to Vacuo. It was a giant place of infinite blackness with golden pathways between magic portals they had created. Cinder picked a fight there the way she usually did: Target innocents to force a fight.
In the middle of the fighting, Yang got in my way and got knocked off into the darkness. Cinder betrayed me just after, and kicked Ruby and I into the darkness with her. Blake and Weiss were on their way down too, I think. Last I remember was falling through nothing, trying to throttle her before what I assumed was us hitting the ground.
Neither of us hit. The place was pure magic bullshit some artifact created. We have no idea if we survived.
But I will say this: Almost everyone from Atlas and Mantle got through.
[ There's a long, long gap between Neo's message and Penny's eventual response. It wouldn't be unfair for Neo to assume that Penny's just not going to respond at all.
[So, that was... honestly about what she'd expected? She counted herself somewhat lucky she'd gotten that much out before she'd been told to not call again. Either way, Neo was willing to keep her distance. If there was going to be another conversation it would be Penny to initiate it.
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And the thing is, she gets it. Penny doesn't hate easily, and if asked she'd say she doesn't hate anyone whatsoever. But Cinder... Cinder is someone she thinks she could hate one day, and it's not hard for her to see how someone else could. She believes (she tells herself) that Pietro is okay and survived the slow descent of Amity Arena just fine, but if Cinder had successfully killed him...
But she can't think about that because there's a single line in this explanation that stands out, something that she can't get past even with everything else Neo just told her. It's nice to know that she's learned to let go, that she's even friends with Ruby, that she's not a threat here anymore. But... ]
What exactly do you mean 'I might have gotten Yang and Ruby killed'?
[ Maybe it was an accident - Penny wants it to have been an accident - but she's certain that it's not. ]
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Both Ruby and I are from a point of time when she was rescuing the folks from Atlas to Vacuo. It was a giant place of infinite blackness with golden pathways between magic portals they had created. Cinder picked a fight there the way she usually did: Target innocents to force a fight.
In the middle of the fighting, Yang got in my way and got knocked off into the darkness. Cinder betrayed me just after, and kicked Ruby and I into the darkness with her. Blake and Weiss were on their way down too, I think. Last I remember was falling through nothing, trying to throttle her before what I assumed was us hitting the ground.
Neither of us hit. The place was pure magic bullshit some artifact created. We have no idea if we survived.
But I will say this: Almost everyone from Atlas and Mantle got through.
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But she does, eventually, reply. ]
I see.
Please don't contact me again.
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For now? This was just how it had to be.
/Fin]