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V. Important Requests

Who: Katie and anyone
Broadcast: Fleet
Action: The Vanquish if you want
When: 10 Feb

Dear Atrama, Can we please visit a planet with beaches next? I keep meeting people who haven't seen one and that's terrible. It's actually a crime where I come from. Please don't let anyone get arrested. I believe in you. Also if you take requests can I have my cat please. And some chalk and I was meant to have a sword I think I could be wrong. It's a short silver gold magical IT'S A LIGHTSABER A RED ONE Either that or just give me Mihawks.

[GO BIG OR GO HOME]

Please thank you love Dorothy.

[This has been a totally efficient use of your communicator, Katie, gj.]

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Oh, that's true!

I should definitely learn how to use a lightsaber, then.

[It's the most innocent of remarks. Really.]

[ He gets caught up in her confidence and nods in agreement. ]

You definitely should. It feels different from a normal sword, you know.

Is it lighter? It looks like it would be lighter. And hot!

It can cut through durasteel so you have to be careful. Most padawans have training sabers so they don't accidentally... cut off an arm.

[ Hah. haha. ]

In my opinion, it's more balanced than any sword is.

Do you think it could cut through the side of one our ships? [She isn't sure what durasteel is, but it sounds hella strong.]

It really depends on how thick the hull is.

[ And before she gets any ideas... ]

But I ...wouldn't try that.

And here I was about to run off and kill everyone on board.

[She's ultra curious but she knows what happens if a spaceship gets a hole in it. Movies are great for that kinda thing.]

Hey, might make good ratings. If you're lucky, they'll send you home right before your air and pressure goes out.

That wouldn't be any fun. [She grins, unseen on the audio feed.] Then I'd never learn how to use a lightsaber.

[ He chuckles. ] But you'll get to go home. Wouldn't you want that?

I suppose I should eventually. But if time isn't moving, I think I should see as much of the universe as possible first!

[ Oh that's.. new ]

How do you know time, isn't moving?

Oh... [UM. Actually now that she thinks about it she's not sure. She just assumed because she knows it didn't in Adstring. On the other hand--]

Well, I'm not growing any older. [Which is meant to be a lie, but ironically Katie hasn't realised she isn't.] And people say if you go home you go right back to the point you left! Doesn't that mean time isn't moving?

[ Having only been here for a few months, he hasn't noticed anything relating to growth. But he imagines a child might be measuring their height by inches. ]

If they can take us out of time, they can put us back in the same time. I don't know if that means it isn't changing here or there, at home.

How old are you anyway, kid?

I'm nine! [Ten. At some point. She forgets.] And I suppose so-- I suppose it's better to say time isn't moving for us, then, not everyone else.

I think that sounds reasonable. [ Chuckling: ] You're a very clever nine year old, Dorothy.

I try my very best to be. [And occasionally cheats about it.] Smart people have much more fun.

[ He raise a brow at that ] What makes you say that?

You learn a lot more, so you know a lot more! And people can't trick you as often.

That's not always the case, little one. Careful where your cleverness takes you.

But if it takes me bad places, I'm not being terribly clever after all. I would never do something without thinking first.

[This is a bald-faced lie and she's so amused by it.]

Sometimes, bad places are the only choice you have.

Life isn't very fair sometimes.

[But she sound softer and more thoughtful. Less of a child, even. She's talking to the future Darth Vader. It's an interesting thing to say, considering.]

But I'd think in that case that whether you're clever or not it wouldn't help matters much.

[ it's quiet for a moment until anakin brings the conversation back to a lighter tone ]

Are you sure you're nine?

[Happy to oblige on that score.] Pretty sure. I could be wrong. Sometimes I think I'm very old, like fourteen.

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