The initial message goes unanswered, lost when Jedao's communicator is smashed along with the rest of him, and unlike Jedao, it has no regenerative properties. His item, too. However, two days after they descend onto the Island, Jedao finds him.

Jedao still has large swathes of his body palette-swapped into a deep, light-swallowing blackness, neither matte nor glossy. He's found a mylar blanket somewhere, and made a decently neat hipwrap out of it, but the bright silver of the wrap only contrasts all the more vividly with the chunks of his body that look like resinous concentrations of starless outer void.

"Jun Wu! You made it!"

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