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[tasteforpoison]

[It's Yelena, here with a quick question. She has a somewhat harried look about her, and she doesn't look like she's slept well with the bags under her eyes, but it doesn't make her any less alert.

That might be because of the coffee-like drink she's enjoying at one of the cafes in the Wood sector, but it's not what she's here to talk about.]

Just to be sure, no one has noticed any ghosts of people who aren't from Keeliai, right? That is, spirits of people who are definitely from their worlds instead of here, for instance?

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[arches]

So? Make your own.

[tasteforpoison]

[She just snorts.]

Doesn't work that way.

[arches]

Ha. You ever tried it?

[tasteforpoison]

Yeah, a few times. Nothing good ever came of it.

[Other than the fact that she's still alive, in theory, but her life was still one shitty downward spiral.]

Why, have you and had it work out for you?

[arches]

I tend to not take no for an answer.

...works out about half the time.

[tasteforpoison]

Don't see how that really applies here and now.

[arches]

Why not? You're asking for the information, aren't you? Which means you don't want to be caught off guard. Which means you're gonna be as prepared as you can be. Which means that even if things don't go your way, you can have a plan.

[tasteforpoison]

That's bettering my odds, not making my own luck. Luck isn't something you can control. You can't force it into existence.

Why do you care anyway?

[arches]

_{( he shrugs, and its audible in his tone when speaks again, after a pause. )}


I guess I don't.

[tasteforpoison]

[Yep.]

Have anything else to say then?

[There's an implied "Or are you done?" in there, though she half expects him to continue, either to be obstinate or to try and get her reasons out of her again.]

[arches]

...guess not. Try not to get eaten, or possessed, or whatever.

[tasteforpoison]

You too.

[And Yelena cuts the transmission, reasonably sure she managed to get through that conversation without giving him too much of the personal information he was angling for.]