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[The feed turns on, the signal coming from Robert Lutece's console - and there he is, standing in front of the camera...in what appear to be Rosalind's clothes. They're a bit too small, and his waist is cinched in...he's got a corset on. Deadpan, he addresses the camera.]

Good evening. I am Robert Lutece.

I would just like to say...I am a complete buffoon. If I weren't so busy secretly wearing my sister's clothes while she isn't home, I might actually take a moment to listen to her. She's had a hard time of things during all this, and I haven't been nearly sensitive enough. I'm a complete idiot. Here I am, telling her to be more social...just so I can lark about at home.

I am...ashamed.

[Something is...not quite right here.]

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Even humans themselves could never understand.

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[leviathaned]

...Is that so.

[And in a moment, everything about Sei's tone and body language shift. That's thin ice, Rosalind Lutece, and now you're being watched by a caged shark. Even his eyes have slit pupils, now don't they. But then it's gone, and he breathes out, and it was simply a hallucination of a man's short temper.]

And what would you know of cruelty, anyway? You in your pretty suits and constant companionship? I find it hard to believe you've drunk deep in the malice of humanity.

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[Maybe that would have scared some. Likely, even. But Rosalind simply stares the camera down, all ice and fury and pain.]

I know a great deal more than you think I do.

And my sister knows even more than I.

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[leviathaned]

And yet you turn on each other.

[There is a note of--disappointment in Sei's voice.]

You would have a solace so few are ever allowed, and this is how you treat it? I expected better...perhaps that was foolish of me, as well.

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[dotsanddashes]

[Hmph. And who are you to be disappointed, anyhow?]

Emotions are a factor in any relationship.

And expectations only set one up for disappointment in the first place.

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[leviathaned]

[A bitterly lonely old man who just lost everyone he loved. He snorts, and shakes his head.]

Relationships can also be lost by those same emotions. Take care you don't actually burn any bridges with that pride of yours.

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I'm more than aware of how easy it is to lose a person.

I'll manage.

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[leviathaned]

We'll see.