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[Enter 'Professor Craig'. He's a middle-aged man with a neatly trimmed goatee, glasses, salt-and-pepper black hair and the accent of a British foreign national that's spent several decades in America. Of Bruce Wayne, there is absolutely nothing, not the voice or the poise or the bearing. Even his eyes are another colour, and the structure of his face is altogether different.

This post goes up several hours past the executions, and Bruce is basically waiting on the results of his blood samples and fabric analyses from the three dead kedan. So, the Network gets his attention for now, and his primary cover persona on Keeliai gets some exercise.]

Is everyone all right? God, I can't even imagine-- if anyone needs anything, please ask. We're all in this together.

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What are you gonna do? Throw chalk at them?

Leave it to people that are trained to handle this kind of thing.

I didn't say I was going to fight.

['Craig' would do nothing of the sort, tyvm.]

But there is more than one way to stand up to someone.

Trust me, 'teach'. [She is so assuming you're a professor.] This isn't the kind of thing that can be solved by peaceful protests.

[His disguise is impeccable. It's the goatee and the silver streaks in his hair, isn't it?]

You're suggesting a war.

[It screams essays and boring lectures, what can she say.]

No, I'm suggesting you stay home and don't become a statistic.

[She gestures to the walls of her suite -- to the outside.]

Did you miss the fact that they tried to kill some of us 'foreigners' out there just because we're not kedan? [Disdain, she has it.] It's different if they're picking on someone their own size, but normal people like that? They had no chance.

So you consider yourself to be 'their own size', then?

[That startles her out of the aloof disregard, hitting the head of a nail she hadn't realised was there. Did she consider herself that? Maybe more than the average Joe, but she wasn't kidding herself. Piotr or Logan stood to make a difference, not her.]

No. Of course not! [She looks irritated.] I'm not saying that you should leave it to me. [Ahahaha, no; that'd be panic-inducing.]

Then who would you recommend?

[caaaaaasually fishing to see if she knows anyone else here, la la la.]

[That is a question she's not qualified to answer and her shrug is clear indication of that.]

Someone else. [There's a certain insistence in her tone.] Someone that's got experience and won't be turned into a pancake the first time a kedan takes an exception to them.

[Interesting. So she's alone, but she's accustomed to having powerful friends to rely on.]

I can't argue with the logic of that.

Good to see you've got some sense, 'teach.' That mean you'll stay in and not stage some sort of suicidal hippy protest?

It means I'm not planning on taking any undue risks, young lady.

You know, if you weren't some musty old professor type, I'd probably think you were lying.

[But AS IF.]

I'm not just a musty old professor, you know. I also birdwatch.

[SO THERE.]

Did you seriously just say that?

[Ororo actually sounds pained at the idea that he thought it funny too.]

Okay. Just... don't ask the wrong kedan to look like a bird for you and we're all good. Stay safe --[and boring] -- until this passes.

Yes ma'am.

[salute! and c'est finis.]

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