"Yeah, please, go ahead." Olive will just... lean against this chair a bit. Individual portals—

[Postcog-verified] Worms deployed via secondary underground portals. Further analysis required but containment via primary portal nonviable

She sends it to approximately everybody involved, high priority.

Well. That's... that, then.

Olive kind of hates confluences.

"So how long does it usually take for worms to appear," Tae-hwan says after what feels like an eternity. He's been watching buildings get demolished in the distance, aware that he could stop any one of them, and save those people. Aware that those people are dying and he could stop it and he is instead sitting here. Not doing anything. Not even stopping something else. Just waiting.

And it's getting to him.

"I... think usually one should already have, but I'm not sure," Woo-young admits.

Silence. Stillness.

"It's eerie," one of the nearby uniformed men admits, looking up from the screen he's hunched over. "Not a whisper on the seismograph since we got set up here. The worms must be taking their time to come home." 

"Are they attacking elsewhere? Should I be sent there?"

"I haven't heard -" 

He's interrupted by the sound of wormsong from the north. 

"We have now heard!!!"

Wince. "I'm obviously not in charge of either of you but I thought the plan was to have you here for containment? A bunch of local espers are out there already." 

"Yeah, that's the plan. I'm not deviating from the plan. I'm just wondering if the plan should change or if there's a reason the plan is failing."

You have access to the same feed I do He is not going to be rude to the boyfriend of the best teleporter in the world.

Also, he's a seismograph operator, not an esper liaison.

"Frank!" 

A man, presumably Frank, jogs over and, following the jerk of a head, approaches the Korean pair. "What's up?" 

"Do we have leads on what's up with the worms? The projections seemed to suggest that they should've shown up already and I'm wondering if we should be being more proactive about being confused."

"We have analysts looking into it. My understanding is that the current guess is that the worms are hiding deep underground between strikes and gathering more victims before returning to the portal, but I can check the feed for you to see if anything new has come in?" 

"I'd appreciate that, thank you."

As he pulls up his phone, all three of them get the same message on their devices:

[Postcog-verified] Worms deployed via secondary underground portals. Further analysis required but containment via primary portal nonviable

"...shit." 

"You're joking."

"...okay is there a reason for us not to teleport to observed sites of destruction right now and deal with the worms one by one, then?"

"...I'm not thinking of on-" 

Video call incoming from Valerie Novak!