[ChicletPrime]

2. DESECRATED SOIL (you did want running commentary, didn't you? too late, i'm invested.)

• the fleet's coming back from the  tunnel? i didn't even know it was gone.
  
• something killed a planet? nani?! like, it was alive before and now it ain't? wut? maybe they just found it that way. meaning unclear.
  
• paraphrased: "isiah's super dead, but it couldn't be you dot dot dot, you'd never do anything so heinous you sweet little blond cinnamon roll" - Xavier: ...
  
• XAVIER?!
  
• Mr Accuser is apparently a monster (but a talking one?) like, what? okay, i am pegging this guy as an Ever experimental project, thinking back to Dawnbreaker's reality of what sounds like Wanderer infection that takes over humans and changes them. advanced stages of Protocore Syndrome? except he confronts Xavier about walking that same path too. the plot thickens like a rather thin soup.
  
• "ONLY SHE CAN SAVE US! YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW..."  wooo! i'm important! everybody wants to chop up my innards to sell to the highest bidder! except "..That thing is with her."  what thing? my hunter watch thing? my invisible and deadly aether pet? oh my god, it's behind me, isn't it?
  
• go Xavier! you definitely need to shut this guy up with your sexy, sexy light sword before i learn something i shouldn't.
  
• aww. i'm not to be touched. sadness.
  
• Xavier is not to be touched either. okay, super special club i didn't know i joined but me and Xavier can hang out in it, no problem. hang on. wait. maybe he's saying even he shouldn't be touching me.  buddy, awww. i'm really starting to like you though! and we've been touching like crazy so far, honestly.
  
• Mr Accuser is a traitor, per my sketchy partner. ohhhhh! got it got it, gotta be Onychinus related. wait, so amigo is out there killing people, as well as Wanderers? wow. okay. maybe i knew that before but forgot.
  
• WHAT HOME DID YOU FORGET XAVIER?
  
• Ex Mr Accuser. you will not be missed. specks of light corroded by black particles. hmm.
  
• ARRIVAL: The Nest
  
• yup, the radio guy says that planet is definitely dead. seems newsworthy, i guess it WAS alive before. (Caleb? are you out there killing planets? oh shit, i bet he could. yikes. his evol would be perfect for it)
  
• side note: the side character voice actors are paid peanuts, they are not into this AT ALL
  
• oh. stock in trade at The Nest is protocores, huh. fair. blood smears on 'em par for the course, lets not be squeamish now.
  
• oops, a bar fight in the offing!
  
• queue arrival: me!
  
• nooo Xavier i just got here! for the information! that i neeeeeed. oh, fine. out into the alley i guess.