[026. So you're gone and I'm haunted. And I bet you are just fine.]

[lydiascreams]

[Public video]

[Unlike her last couple of barge-wide communications, Lydia looks serious in this one. If you look close enough, or if you know her a little better, you can tell she's upset.]

Jackson's gone. [The words make her jaw clench, her stomach too. Because she might have moved on romantically, but she cares. She always has and she always will.]

I know he didn't have many friends here, but some of you probably knew him.

[And she feels guilty for not doing more, for not trying harder, for not focusing on him more and helping him every second of free time she had.

With a deep breath, she looks away, then back at the camera, her expression more neutral than before.]

Does anyone know why this happens? Why people are sent back without graduating?

Does anyone know what happens to them?

Comments

Private

[voluntaryapnea]

I'm coming over.

[whatthefoxsay]

He wasn't so bad.

I hope he's okay.

Audio : Private

[walkthedarkpath]

I have heard things, they simply go on with a new life.

[ He's lying through his teeth with no shame. Lydia doesn't need to know the truth of what he was told. At least thats how he feels.]

[routemistress]

[Iris didn't know Jackson, beyond noticing that he was a face connected with the Beacon Hills crowd. It's not because of him she looks as though someone's punched her in the diaphragm.]

We don't know. I went looking, once. When it were ...when it were someone else. I couldn't find 'em.

Of all the shite that can 'appen 'ere, Lydia love, this is by far and away the worst. I'm sorry.

[warisart]

No.

I'm sorry, Lydia.

[mercurialize]

I went back for a while without graduating.

... Actually, it was more like a blink of an eye for me, but a couple months here.

And no, I have no idea why it happened, or why I got dragged back again. [Shrug.] It just happens sometimes.

[darknessb4me]

They die.

[strangehistorian]

Oh, no. I'm so sorry. I didn't know him, but...

No, we don't know why. Only that it's no one's fault.

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[theresalwayshope]

Oh, sweetie...do you need me to come over?

[donttouchthefur]

....this kinda thing happen a lot?

[punched_hitler]

[It happened to his inmate, and not long after he was assigned. It's definitely not a good feeling. But,] Unfortunately, I don't know.

I wish I did. But I haven't been here as long as lot of other people, so I hope someone's got an answer for you.