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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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[he waits, very patient. he gives him a minute or two to absorb. and whether or not the other man is still there, whether or not he's listening, Tek finally speaks again. at least he sounds soft and soothing about things. reassuring, though not in the way that implies that there is nothing to be upset about.

there is plenty. being upset is a good thing, in his mind.]

It's a little jarring... but at least they didn't leave you mentally unarmed.

Don't dwell on it for too long. There will be plenty of time for that later.

[ He's listening, and he picks up the device again. Shuddering breaths, calming himself down from the initial shock. ]

I'm just a blacksmith.

And there are just teenagers here. And just soldiers, and entertainers, and healers.

...And there are also monsters and gods and demons.

They've taken all kinds.

Children?

Oh yes.

And it's all for the ratings. It's for an audience.

[ And now, he's calming down. A kind of anger is taking over, from the panic. ]

I see.

[good. ...good.

he likes that very much.]

You'll get used to the way things work around here.

...But maybe you shouldn't.

I can't imagine I would get used to this.

You say that now, but it happens.

They've engineered it just so.

You don't know me or what I will do.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I want you to prove me wrong.

I can hear all sorts of wonderful things in your voice, but I want you to hear the warning regardless.

They will make it hard to fight, and they will make it very easy to settle. These beings, whatever they are, are incredibly good at it.

You shouldn't assume I'll do what you want, either. I don't take well to manipulation.

Ah, I do apologize.

I'm used to people who... aren't nearly quite as sharp.

[ He doesn't consider himself sharp. He can't, for instance, manipulate anyone older than eight years of age, beyond the point where bribery and mysterious adult phrasings stop working. But he has been lied to. He has been pulled one way and then the other for too much of his life, and finally he's learned to notice when he feels those tugs.

He's not sharp. He's just very resistant. ]

You're probably doing it for the right reasons.

[he is sharp, like jagged glass. maybe not the exact meaning one would assume behind the word, but Tek believes it nonetheless.]

I'm doing it for reasons that can be good.

Which is almost the same thing.

Freedom.

[ Isn't that the most important thing, when you're in captivity? ]

Precisely.

Freedom for you doesn't necessarily mean freedom for others.

And freedom often comes at a cost. It's a tricky thing,

But if we don't have that, what do we have?

A very clean and strange place to live.

[he laughs a little]

And an adoring audience watching every move and cheering at our misfortune. Aren't we lucky?

Lucky wasn't what I meant.

I'm not very lucky.

And you probably don't want me as an ally as much as you think.

I was being sarcastic.

...And why wouldn't I? You seem like a perfectly desirable ally.

Wouldn't you want women? To fight.

[HA his smug smirking evaporates instantly.]

...Excuse me?

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nooo I dont want to leave for PT right now...