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[treasureling]

Who: Malak
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: On the Marsiva
When: 1/29

I - this is - [ Very clean. Very strange. Very frightening. But that he knows how to use this contraption must mean he is meant to be here.

He stops in front of the large windows. ]

Is this the realm of the Gods?

Where are my daughters?

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[treasureling]

Stars?

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[amarant]

Unfamiliar ones, at that.

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[treasureling]

...yes.

I hadn't noticed.

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[amarant]

I wouldn't expect you to.

Only because I've been here a bit longer than you have, that's why I know.

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[treasureling]

Then you're a goddess.

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[amarant]

Nothing like that.

[ She hopes that's just a phrase where he's from and not some kind of...way of him saying she's an actual deity.

She isn't, but there's some weird stuff there. ]

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[treasureling]

Where is this? Where am I?

Please, just - please tell me.

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[amarant]

You're on a ship, currently. The Marsiva.

Where we're going next, I don't know. I'm sorry.

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[treasureling]

It doesn't feel like a ship.

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[amarant]

It may be a strange one, though it still is a ship.

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[treasureling]

I don't understand. I don't understand what's happened.

[ His voice is a little high, a little panicked. ]

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[amarant]

You may not, for some time. It is important to not let others know that. You should pretend you aren't afraid.

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[treasureling]

Why?

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[amarant]

It isn't what others want to see.

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[treasureling]

Should I care?

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[amarant]

Apparently. It's why you're here. To be watched.

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[treasureling]

Then they can watch me. But it doesn't mean I'll change.

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[amarant]

That's fine. It was only advice.

[ Honestly, she doesn't sound or look too put out. ]

[treasureling]

Who are you?

[amarant]

My name is Emblica.

[ And aside from the tone (too serious, by far) and what she's said, she looks and sounds, in all other ways, like a rather normal young girl. ]

[treasureling]

[ That she's a girl means he's tougher on her - less sympathetic, with the expectation that she'll be stronger. ]

Malak. That's my name.

[amarant]

[ He won't be wrong, but that's because she's lived longer than he has. ]

It's a nice name.

[treasureling]

Thank you.

[ It's the only thing he has from his parents. ]

[amarant]

Does it mean anything?

[treasureling]

I don't know.