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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

[heresyandlace]

Hmm. Well, that wasn't what I asked at all, was it?

[treasureling]

And I work, too. I'm the best blacksmith on Poleimachmanei.

[heresyandlace]

And are you happy with the whole thing?

[he's not going to let this drop. and he has his reasons.]

[treasureling]

Happy enough.

[heresyandlace]

Oh...

[he drums a finger near the screen]

Those two words should never be put together that way, and left alone.

It's a very poisonous phrase.

[treasureling]

Stop this.

[heresyandlace]

Stop what, precisely?

[treasureling]

Prying.

[heresyandlace]

...Ah. Well, for what it's worth, I apologize.

I tend to get excited over newcomers--especially those that I suspect I might have some things in common with.

[treasureling]

What do we have in common?

[heresyandlace]

See, these are the kinds of things you miss out on when you tell someone to leave you alone.

I'm just trying to help, you know.

[treasureling]

Help yourself, probably.

[heresyandlace]

I don't need any help.

You, on the other hand, are in for a quite a surprise.

[treasureling]

What surprise?

[heresyandlace]

The fact that--by and large--things won't play out here the way that you seem to be used to.

[treasureling]

You mean women won't be the warriors.

[heresyandlace]

I mean that many other cultures treat women as lesser creatures entirely, and it's the males that rule everything.

And there are very few of us who have grown up with the reverse being the case.

[treasureling]

That sounds stupid.