Strutting along, as he always does.

[liquid_serpent]

[Liquid's face told a story. His face was contorted into an expression of pure confusion and moderate anger. How dare he be pulled into this place without his authority! Who had done this and why? He walked along a corridor, wondering where on earth he was. One minute he was at the Shadow Moses Island facility with Metal Gear REX, the next he was here.

Wherever here was. He strutted forward in his long greatcoat. He wore nothing to cover his well-toned chest, but wore a heavy belt secured to his combat pants. He looked like a man who had seen war and a deal of jealousy coursed through his veins. He was a man on a mission. A mission of destruction and vengeance. Liquid Snake ran a hand through his blond hair and let his gaze fall to his feet.]

Why am I here? What purpose is there for me to be here? Well, is anyone hearing this? I demand to know why I am here! [His voice rose in pitch at his last words. Anger denouncing through every word.]

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[wildcard_of_the_desert]

[She inhales sharply. Apparently he was perceptive enough to pick up on that. Damn. Letting her breath out with a small hiss, she lets her expression fall, and she turns away from Liquid a little.

When she turns back, her expression is wounded and full of sorrow.]

I did. But he's gone. This place...

[Miserably, she places a hand on one of the walls, then squeezes it into a fist.]

This place...

[She trails off again, her shoulders slumping.]

[liquid_serpent]

Gone? What do you mean gone? [Liquid cursed silently to himself. His brother HAD been here within this place and now he was gone. No chance to finish him after all. Damn.]

Did he arrive like me? Plucked from his own world by the intercom hag?

[wildcard_of_the_desert]

[Sibyll made the mental note to tell Snake about her little story ASAP.]

It's how everyone gets here.

[liquid_serpent]

Is that so? I think it's time someone took down that hag and ended her little game. [Yep. That's going to be him.]

[wildcard_of_the_desert]

[Sibyll carefully funnels some of her actual emotions into her scoff of disdain. When she speaks, her tone is nothing but icy dismay. Perhaps he'll mistake some of it for frustration at Snake's 'absence'.]

You think no one's tried that yet? Why do you think I let you drag me here? I was hoping you'd have something new to bring to the table. But you've just banged your head against doors like everyone else does when they get here.

[She waves dismissively at the door with its lock blown off.]

The only new idea you've given me is that she might be a computer. Hadn't thought of that before. But I still have no idea where she would be housed. I just know it's not here.

[She was gambling by letting Liquid in on some of her thoughts while excluding other truths from him, notably that Snake was here in duplicate, no less.]

[liquid_serpent]

[He crossed his arms and smirked.]

I have a lot to deliver to this pathetic place, yet I don't have to share my skills with anyone. I never agreed to help anyone. [He shot her a cold glance.] You don't have to take this tone with me, woman.

What else could she be if not a computer? She can't be human. [Because he knew she wasn't.] Why don't we search somewhere else then? Root her out like the AI worm she truly is.