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[ An audio post is sent out from the previously thought unoccupied 3B apartment complex Water Sector. The voice of the sender is delivered in a steady cadence. ]

I will never find myself champing at the bit for another opportunity to be choking on sea water then dragged out of the ocean only to be laid out on that cold, black shell like the morning catch. Even though the kedan were kind enough not to leave me to drown I don't find myself beholden to their efforts when I was nowhere near the edge of the shell before I found myself being fished out a second time.

[ The emotion in the account he gave of what he recently experienced was jarringly dispassionate to the point it almost sounded artificial. Despite how unsettling the implications were. ]

And asking if they or anyone under them were responsible for what happened might only invent a repeat performance. So I'll only ask once-- who did this? The emperor had always appeared to find contentment in quiet enmity, not outright maliciousness.

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At least a couple months.

[Don't rain on her hyperbole parade, gosh.]

Tarrlok's gone, too. I don't know when he vanished. Didn't talk to him as much as you.

Ah; that almost makes sense. I suppose I overestimated his stubbornness and flair for the dramatic.

[ Sorry what? Can't hear you over the monsoon that swept his parade away along with the whole marching band. ]

Thank you.

[Automatically:] You're welcome.

...For what?

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Saving the time I would have spent looking for him.

[ Villain in Mourning ] The irony of both he and the Avatar gone when I'm nowhere that would really matter is. Disquieting.

Sometimes life does that to you.

[She missed some really important stuff back home.]

[ Amon starts teasing the strings of his mask off under the hood; he was not doing the Mask Thing in light of what he just heard. ]

Normally I would agree, but I would hardly call this a place that adheres to the set of laws that ground us in reality.

[Okay, private it is.]

What gave it away? The giant turtle?

[ It's like that dudebro public reputation thing, but villain style. ]

I was going to suggest maybe the untold number of worlds and galaxies. Or maybe even death rendered almost meaningless.

The turtle I readily accept to be within the realm of possibility but they are only the size of islands. As my world understands omnipotent turtles, in any case.

Edited 2013-02-17 07:38 (UTC)

[Nita's from comics. There are already an untold number of worlds and galaxies, and death is essentially meaningless.

Regardless, that bit about the turtle is deadpan funny from her point of view, and she laughs.]

I can't claim to have ever given omnipotent turtles any thought one way or another before getting here.

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[ For what was half his existential crisis and 'do you have a moment to learn the word of god turtle' it was a disturbingly normal conversation. Amon even found himself returning her quiet laugh in kind. ]

Not anything I would hold against you. The turtle would not have been at the forefront of my mind, either. Even if it is hard not to notice.

We've got some pretty impressive whales where I'm from, but that's about it.

[She does not realize he's talking about lion turtles because what.]

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