[b]Pink![/b]

Pink is quiet for a long moment. After a minute the phone blinks off, and then on again.

[quote]Dear Fiona,

No, still awful. Aren't you meant to chant or draw sand mandalas or take drugs while doing this? And why is it so different from just thinking about things normally?

Maybe it's different for me. It's possible I was designed to be incompatible with any sort of meditation because it would interfere with my duties in space construction? 

Yours sincerely,
Pink. [/quote]

[b]Yellow![/b]

Yellow: ⊙_⊙✿
Yellow: Alright
Yellow: Okay, so, the essential parts of this are to do it publicly, on stage, in a moment of triumph. Power it with adrenaline and mass social pressure. The glorious hand reaching down into the ground and pulling her into your spotlight.
Yellow: In so doing you're declaring to everyone else as much as her; establishing this as the public and righteous way for things to be. Her instincts are to elide and observe, move around the edges, not let people know about her unless she's demonstrating superiority over them. She wants the flexibility of anonymity, the power of the stranger.
Yellow: That alone won't stop her wandering eye, but it does the next best thing in projecting to everyone [i]else [/i]that she belongs to you. 

[b]Cyan![/b]

White hates the plan. The virtuous would not fall for it. To Cyan, that's exactly why it will work.

She thinks Dudekov was right about something: November's too fucking clever for her own good. She doesn't appreciate how stupid most people are. She's too adapted to space where you can, in fact, outsmart the machinery of the spheres by doing sufficient math. Even allegedly cool colours like Pink thought like this, just find the sheer fucking perfect combination of arts to art your way out of problems u-[i]uuughhhhhh[/i]. 

Look, here's how you get a bunch of cops to move. You issue them a direct order to move. On what grounds are they going to object? Morality? Ha! No, they're not leading a mass movement of community leaders where they incentivize the man on the ground to make decisions. They see themselves as sheepdogs? That means they don't argue with the shepherd's whistle.

This was an operation in three short stages. One, tap comms chatter and identify the local commander responsible for this area. Two, isolate his comms for a moment and issue a notice that the rally point is being changed to two stations down. Three, provide a train for the cops on site to ride down the line. But what about - no you're overthinking it, the commander doesn't need to justify shit to his subordinates. The system is designed to channel and amplify stupidity, it has no immune defenses against one more bad decision if it thinks it's coming from the top.

[b]Orange![/b]

Social awkwardness was no reason not to send a rescue mission. "We've got a stray who needs pick up here," she said, tapping her pointer to the location on the map in front of the Valkyries. "Covertly armoured cyborg, was working on delaying the fascists. Probably injured, which means that whoever injured her was armed. I'd appreciate any volunteers for this."