Sadde and Bell in Worm
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Transit appears and forces a wodge of something between Rewind's teeth and her cheek. Without stopping to see how fast that works he kneels by Lorica, shoulders Glam out of the way, touches a catch on her helmet and passes another something in to the moving parts inside.
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Glam is shouldered aside, in a daze, and Rewind takes a couple of seconds to wake up, feels pain, and is standing where she'd arrived when Purity blasted her. "Save her," Glam says in a pained voice, and Rewind's already on the move before even fully understanding what happened, running towards Lorica. She doesn't even bother talking to Charlie—they don't have time to waste—and she touches her—

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"Jesus fuck," gasps Lorica.

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Rewind's already on her way to Silica—

And Glam's arms are around Lorica's neck, and they're sobbing openly, and there aren't enough words to form a full sentence except by inference from "alive" and "lost" and "you."
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Lorica hugs back, and leans her head on Transit who's behaving low-key similarly, and catches her breath while bots catch her up on what she missed.

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"What the fuck happened here?" Rewind asks. "Did I get back twice?"

Glam's not letting go anytime soon.
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Glam's shoulderbot tells Rewind what happened. Lorica squeezes Glam.

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"Jesus fucking Christ that Nazi bitch," Rewind breathes. "I should go see if anyone needs my help downstairs." She looks at Glam, who seems to have given up on words, then at Silica and says, "Probably not a robot."

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"Probably not," says Silica.

The bot reports on the situation downstairs for Rewind.
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Rewind rewound herself back to the rooftop before they'd evacuated everyone, and given how long she spent up there and how soon after she arrived Fog left, she won't be able to help much, but it's still not zero help, so down she goes.

Eventually Glam regains enough coherency to ask, "Are you okay?" and sniffle.
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"Woozy. Otherwise fine," Lorica assures them.

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"I thought you were going to die," they murmur.

They are still hugging her, uncomfortable armor be damned.
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"Well - I didn't." Pat pat.

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Sniffle. "Good." More sniffling.

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"Dad, can you haul us both back?"

"Mm," says Transit. There's a series of pops.
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So they're back.

Glam looks around, and gingerly lets go of Lorica. They're not sure what they're supposed to do, there, whether Transit will want to spend time with his daughter-who-almost-died or what.
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"You need to lie down?" Transit asks Lorica.

"Yeah. I'll be in Glam's room hogging their bed if you wanna bring me some juice and stuff for the blood loss."

Transit nods and disappears. Lorica's armor floats her towards Glam's room.
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And Glam goes with, and opens the door for them.

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Lorica's armor departs her of its own accord except the helmet, which she has to detach herself.

Flop.

"I promise my dad won't kill you if he catches you snuggling me."
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"Okay."

Snuggle!

(He has clearly been crying. That is. Pretty obvious.)
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Snuggle.

"Rewind needs like a fucking medal."
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He nods, burying his face in her hair. "I think both of us owe her our lives, now."

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"Relatedly, we really need to figure out a way to deal with the Empire without almost dying so often."

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"That'd be nice."

Transit knocks.
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