Vox Mentis

Hang on a sec. You're thinking in the moment too much.

Remember, the poets sent you out here. Now, if they were doing that, wouldn't they want someone keeping tabs on you?

Imagine this scenario. Your unseen watcher learns about what you've been doing. They decide to use it for a test, or maybe a punishment for squandering your talents. Exact reason doesn't matter right now.

What matters is that a mystery poet riled up a bunch of angry girlfriends and sent them after you.

Or maybe he's not such a mystery, considering someone showed up right afterwards and saved your life, and now you can't stop thinking about him. Yeah, that can happen on its own, but you were also just kicked out of an organization of people who spend a lot of time learning how to make that kind of thing happen.

Maybe this is what this whole Broken Hill mess is about. It's one big test to see if you can persuade "Danny" to let you leave. Or maybe he's just tormenting you for kicks, wouldn't be the first time someone in this organization has tried to play around with you.

...or, maybe you're getting paranoid. But it fits with what you know enough to be worth a little test.

Go to the van, and try to lead the conversation towards poetry.