Xerxes Break (
maddeninghatter) wrote2013-02-02 06:35 pm
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IC Contact: Crux Fleet
KE KE KE KE KE KE KE KE!!!
[ All you get is Emily's mad laughter. Xerxes Break is so done with this shit. ]
[ All you get is Emily's mad laughter. Xerxes Break is so done with this shit. ]
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in any case, though, what he leaves in break's inbox is a link to this particular conversation he'd been part of. )
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I saw that. Sounds terribly familiar, doesn't it?
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The scale is much larger and the names are different, but...
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But we're still far from home, and thrust into the middle of another war.
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( though he's more afraid that if anyone did — the arrival here was so familiar, see, that the suspicion is hard to shake off, and perhaps just as hard to articulate. )
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Even so, there are notable differences. First, the war with artificial intelligences seems to be long past. Second, nobody seems to be interested in changing that past, despite the terrible casualties inflicted.
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and yet, these people really had triumphed, even if at a terrible cost. )
They said that bringing us here was an accident.
( he doesn't believe it yet, but neither has he completely written it off, either. )
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[ He pauses for a moment after that. He remembers distinctly how Oz behaved after visiting Lutwige. ]
Anyway, it's possible they brought us here to increase their numbers, a few scores of people in a city of half a million seems to be rather an inefficient way to do it. Other possibilities abound, and obviously we should keep our eyes and ears open. But in the meantime, there's no point fretting.
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( ...well, break is right to admonish, anyway, since that's exactly what he's been doing. )
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[ Think of a small bunny, just before a raptor pounces. ]
But no one will believe you're older than twelve. They'll insist you go to school anyway, so you might as well~!
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Of course they would! I'm almost as tall as Lenalee by now!
( 167 cm not that he's been counting )
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[ A little pause. He continues, more soberly: ]
Have you seen her anywhere, by the way?
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( g o s h. he exhales before answering next, tone turning a little rueful. )
No. I don't think she's here. Ah, but she'd hate a place like this.
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No and no are the answers, he suspects. Thus: ]
It's for the best.
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Mm. ( and after a pause, despite himself — ) I wonder what they'd be teaching in the schools, here. ( in SPACE )
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[ Because he understands at least some part of the twisted thoroughfares that are Oz's thought processes, he adds: ]
But if you decide not to go to school because you do want to — nobody can force you in that case, either.
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Somehow when you put it like that, it sounds like a threat.
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[ a TOTALLY REASSURING laugh ]
You know, it's possible, given the sorts of things you were reading about in Exsilium, you might actually know more on, ah, certain subjects than your professors do. So, a word of advice: nobody likes a know-it-allll!
[ Please to not be teaching anyone about cloning or Chimera projects or anything else like that, ty Oz. ]
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( why on earth would he talk about them when he can repress why he ever had to know about them in the first place!! )