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[maipokerface]

[Console, whatever. Sure she got the run down on the thing but Mai's pretty much been ignoring it for the past day. She hasn't even bothered to really look on the network itself even if she has no intention of making an entry to it.

Now she's bothering though, mainly because she just wants to ask:]

So explain this war business to me again. Or at least try to convince me why I should care. Because right now? I really can't find much inside to say I should.

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[sizzle]

[ He can safely say that Mai was probably one of the last people he expected to see here. ]

... Mai?!

[ Considering their last encounter with each other (from his time point), he's not expecting this conversation to go well. At all. ]

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[maipokerface]

[Brief, brief surprise.]

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[maipokerface]

[Then the teen merges back expertly into that bland expression of hers.]

Good, we're both here.

[The tone denotes it's hardly a good thing at all. Her voice shifts from sardonic sarcasm to seriousness easily.]

So is it just you then?

[solo_patria]

Ah, well, Mademoiselle, as it was explained to me, we have been brought here to stop this evil before it spreads to our homes. I did believe the woman who told us such, but I suppose that it IS up to you whether or not that is true The enemy we fight against...he does seem to posses that power.

[maipokerface]

Have you ran into him yourself?

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[whitelotustile]

Well, given that this spirit seems intent on destroying the place we're currently living, and may move on to our own world, that seems like a good reason to find a solution now.

Though, I admit I haven't given much thought as to how to do it.

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[maipokerface]

Then what have you been thinking about.

[He was a General at one point, wasn't he?]

[manofiron]

That is the perfect attitude to take. I approve.

[maipokerface]

Glad I have your approval then, I guess. So that's not a common sentiment, hm?

[Not that she thought it would be, of course. Most people seemed to be all for war.]

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[goodanswer]

We can't go home until it's over.

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[maipokerface]

And what if I don't care about going back.

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[superoverachiever]

Well, if we don't win, literally everyone might die.

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[maipokerface]

Alright. So how do you know that's going to actually happen.

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[withthebrotherhood]

[He's been dealing with this screwy world long enough that he no longer really worries about being green in public, so Toad makes no attempt to ease her into talking to him.]

See, that's preeeetty much what I said, and I don't think anybody even cares that much. Like... they just grab us at random and they get enough suckers to handle the hero biz and the rest of us can chill. I recommend popcorn. And a roof.

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[maipokerface]

I'm all for watching the rest of them be idiots if they want to, sure. I'm not doing anything anyhow.

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[soulstoker]

Going along with all this seems like the fastest way to get back home, so that's why I care at least. [Seriously, she just finished getting out of a war in her own world, why'd she have to get tossed into another one!!]

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[maipokerface]

So what if you don't really care about going home then?

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[definingfuture]

Because the bad guys won't stop bothering us until we win? Something like that. It's not so much the war as the people involved. They don't deserve it.

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[maipokerface]

That much I can understand. [And even somewhat sympathize with.]

So tell me why I should care about what they do and don't deserve then. They aren't exactly my family or friends or anything.

[modernized]

Because...you might die if you don't care?

[Just saying.]

[maipokerface]

I can protect myself just fine. That doesn't mean I have to participate in this war though.

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[beganwithamask]

How about 'everybody in every world might die if we don't'? I dunno, that's the party line right now, I guess. There is a lotta nasty black magic stuff goin' on around here anyway.

[He flashes a small smile, confident and unconcerned.] That said, we don't gotta care about it all the time, at least.

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[maipokerface]

What sort of 'nasty black magic stuff'.

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[iguanasolution]

War isn't something to take lightly, even if you think you might not be involved in it. And even if you really don't care about people dying [which would be a first, but it's what Frank thinks her tone implied] there's also the fact that you won't get to go back home if we don't win?

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[maipokerface]

Maybe not but it's a little hard not to when you grow up with it, I guess. At least I never thought about it that much back home.

[She didn't have a reason to, beyond her father's political standing. And even that she dutifully ignored.]

How do you know you'll go back?

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[superieure]

[Monet flicks on the feed; elegantly dressed, one leg folded over the other, regarding Mai with a mixture of approval and curiosity. She gestures with one hand, idly.]

The lattes taste better, supposedly.

[A beat, and she shrugs.]

I've no idea. This is probably the slowest war ever.

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[maipokerface]

... I'm guessing a latte isn't tea.

[It's said blandly but not that sarcastically at least.]

How long has it been going on?