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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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[They're such a drag.]

Well, culturally yes, but I'm not exactly in the camp of those who believe in the concept.

Well, then.

Congratulations on being wrong.

I've been wrong before.

[HE'S SO UNRUFFLED BY THIS.]

If nothing else, it's an interesting learning opportunity.

[there's evidence of smugness in his tone and posture, but the acceptance of being wrong does dampen it somewhat. it's only really enjoyable when an argument starts.]

I'm sure it is for everyone, though I'm still debating the idea that any of us is actually dead. But it wouldn't be the first time people have been rumored to walk into the afterlife still alive. Or fall, as the case may be.

[oh he knows your type. he knows your type so much.]

My last memory is of grading papers, an action which is generally not fatal, as I understand it.

Who's to say we fell anywhere? There's more than one way to end up in the ocean.

[he will deliberately misunderstand you until you hang up on him, chase. it's a thing.]

[he raises an eyebrow, the smirk fading somewhat. grading papers. definitely an academic, then, and the sort he stopped talking to decades ago.]

Such as?

[whether they fell from the sky or off a boat ... how else do you end up underwater?]

You're the one that was so smug moments ago about realms existing between life and death. Water can be a metaphor for many things. Rebirth, for example.

[the smirk vanishes completely.]

I wasn't being particularly metaphorical, considering the current situation. If this is a rebirth, I'm finding myself completely unchanged from my previous incarnation. One would imagine a difference to be critical to that sort of thing.

If you haven't experienced the phenomena before, I don't believe it's entirely fair to have such rigid expectations of it.

[His faintly British accent does get a little more aloof at that. Ugh, you philistine.]

[the pupils of his eyes narrow to needle-thin slits, but there's not much other change in his expression or tone of voice.]

Oh, believe me, I have.

[He raises his eyebrows faintly. The expression, unlike every other one he's managed as 'Devin Craig', is only a little feigned.]

And I suppose if I ask what you might possibly mean by that, you'll tell me it's altogether none of my business?

Essentially.

But you may yet find out in due time regardless.

[it's not quite said as a threat. it's more idle than anything else, an offhanded comment - but the faint tinge of loathing hasn't quite left his eyes.]

Do you make a habit of that? Being vaguely ominous?

When I can. It keeps the amateurs on their toes.

And what does the term 'amateur' entail in this instance?

Most people.

[he means everyone who isn't him.]

Until they can prove they're not amateurish, in any case.

By your standards.

[... not really a question.]

My exceptionally high standards, yes.

[why argue when it's the truth?]

Warranted, however. I've had far too much experience with idiots to lower them at all.

People might surprise you if given half the chance, Mister...?

Surprise is something I rarely come across, half-chances or not. Chase Young.

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