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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?

Comments

Video

[treasureling]

We can go back?

Video

[alwayscomeback]

I think so? People have left.

It could be a sneaky, terrible trap, but yeah.

Video

[treasureling]

Then they pick the ones that are the most entertaining?

Video

[alwayscomeback]

I don't know how it works, really. I guess that could be it? They've got a big thing about ratings.

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[treasureling]

You don't sound angry.

[alwayscomeback]

I'm not happy about it, but there's nothing we can do to fix it, yet. I'm working on a way outta here. Until then, you just need to keep a low profile with it all.

[treasureling]

You're just a boy.

[alwayscomeback]

I'm sixteen!!!! In my tribe, I'm a man. Heck, I've led a war effort.

[treasureling]

Weren't there any warriors?

[alwayscomeback]

I'm a warrior! All the other men of my tribe were doing their part. Someone had to lead it.

[treasureling]

All the men? As well as the women?

[alwayscomeback]

We didn't have any warrior women left. But my team had Katara, Toph and Suki.

[treasureling]

All of your women were dead?

[alwayscomeback]

What? NO! But the Benders are. The ones left behind are elderly, or mothers.

[treasureling]

You mean the fathers fought and the mothers didn't?

[alwayscomeback]

...Uh yeah? The mothers were busy raising the kids?

[treasureling]

Why weren't the fathers with the children?

[alwayscomeback]

...Because they were fighting the war?

[treasureling]

Why were they fighting the war instead?

[alwayscomeback]

Like I said, there weren't any fighters left in our women.

[There's a pause.]

Look, that's just the way our Tribe works. But the war has women fighting in it. Our Tribe is tiny, it's barely there. But other places? They got them. And they're fighting.

[treasureling]

Where I come from, men take care of the children.

[alwayscomeback]

[...]

Don't men not have a really important thing that babies kind of need? You know, that only women can give?

[treasureling]

Nursing doesn't last a baby's whole life.

[alwayscomeback]

Well, no. But the women still do the raising. It's just how it is.

[treasureling]

It doesn't seem fair. Women already carry the child for nine months and then nurse her.