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"To be honest with you, Helen , Caroline says, "I'm not exactly sure what my friends are 'up to.' I took off with Andrei and Timour when it looked like Andrei was dead-set on coming to the foundation to look for trouble. That's partly why I'm so worried about them." She picks up the t...

To Helen , Caroline replies, "Yes, of course; let's go now if that's all right. I want to be sure that everyone's all right." She wonders pensively about Beth and her other new friends, feeling a dread creeping up on her that something might have gone as wrong for them as it had for her ow...

Caroline is feels as if she's in a daze, given all that's happened, but she still clutches the materials the group hopes to secret away from the cursed foundation. She curses herself, too, for failing to help Andrei and hopes that getting to Paul's will give her a chance to make amends. Looking at ...

First, I should apologize for slowing things down. RL things got in the way, and then I was just sort of burned out on everything. I can come back in as you like, starting now, assuming that we'd still be trying to find some way to move forward. If there's a restart, I think I may just bow out if th...

I can pick up again if y'all want me. If you've moved on, I understand. I was heavily preoccupied with dissertation work, which is, I hope, mostly done now.

Torn between helping or at least comforting Helen and seeing what Timour meant by Andrei needing her, Caroline says to Helen , "Dear, I know this has been horrible, and we'll sort it out as best we can in just a moment. Right now, I need to see what's gone on downstairs." She takes her bag...

Temporarily leaving Helen, Caroline calls down the staircase to Timour and Andrei: "Is everything all right down there? is anyone hurt?" She's almost afraid of the answer.

Caroline scampers to help Helen, first checking the assailant's body for signs of life even though it would seem obvious there were none, and then (if all goes as she suspects it will), tries to aid the living woman up from where she lay and examine her for injuries.

Unless Timour acts first, Caroline reaches for the nearest heavy object she can find and attempts to club Helen's attacker into submission.

Caroline abandons the office search to see what's happening with Helen.

If it looks like the woman is headed in the right direction, Caroline has a go at Gavigan's office.

On edge herself, Caroline attempts to coax the cleaning woman as calmly as she can. "Oh, my dear, are you all right? What a horrible thing just happened! For no reason at all, that man pulled a weapon on one of my colleagues. I'm sure you're awfully frightened, but I need you to come back with ...

Caroline is almost as dumbstruck as Helen despite knowing better than she the potential for violence in the Russians and Andrei's instability. "Freeze!" Caroline momentarily halts as if the command had been meant for her before realizing its true aim. "Stay here!" she shouts to ...

How could this have gone so wrong so quickly? Caroline wonders to herself. Oh, yes, there were Russians involved.

"Oh, dear, that does sound worrisome," Caroline says. "As a doctor, I know how dangerous it can be when people become fixated on such strange matters. Do you think he took the book with him? It might help if we could see it."

"No, I think that's enough for now," Caroline says in response to Timour's question. "That's a great deal to take in and accept all at once as it is."

Caroline scrambles to try to make everything look as it did, and then hopes she looks more casual than she feels.

Caroline reaches for the Carlyle Expedition file. Realizing that there's no time to read the whole thing, she intends to look for anything related to the expedition's final fate first, and then work backwards if time permits. She nods to Timour in a way meant to suggest that she's found something a...

I'm just saying that a girl has to keep an open mind.