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[akingmuststand]

[The feed runs a moment before Schneizel speaks up. There's a minute sigh in his voice, well-wrapped up in his composure.]It seems that Kanon Maldini may be added to the list of those missing. The young Empress Tianzi is also absent from where she is usually found - this wouldn't be the first time that people have left in waves, would it? A string

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[asouroldelf]

[A dry sort of laugh, if it can be called a laugh.]

Best get used to that, eh? There'll be plenty more that leave than stay, if'n this is anything like that last place I was. Ain't like to find stable footing in a place of such magic.

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[akingmuststand]

Mm. Such already appears to be the case, and has been since the start.

I'm curious; how different was that place, from here? If I understand correctly, there are some of our number who have been through a similar situation before.

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[asouroldelf]

That place bordered a beach, and near as I've seen it was more like to be overrun with monsters than fair folk. [Her voice falls to an uneasy mutter.] Not that they're one in the same. [Before resuming a more casual tone.]

There were more than, at times, and less at others, 'course that might be no different. Largest difference seems only that them what brought us there called themselves gods, and carried on quite a bit of tomfoolery when they weren't making our lives miserable.

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[akingmuststand]

I see. I wonder then, what sort of scale this happens on...

[But he trails off. The subject is one riddled with needless speculation, and is hardly of great consequence.]

You didn't have a 'Guardian' figure, then, acting for the people, rather than against them?

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[asouroldelf]

We did. Ihy, brave little thing, did what he could. But ain't for children to protect everyone, not even children gods.

[Leather creaks as she resettles.]

Mostly, it was up to us to do what we could. Weren't the best at it, mind, but we managed as best we were able.

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[akingmuststand]

Then, for all the changes in setting and in nuance, our circumstances remain quite similar. Would you say so yourself, miss?

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[asouroldelf]

Aye, that I would. And it's Avari, eh? Don't need none of them titles.

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[akingmuststand]

Avari. It's a pleasure.

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[asouroldelf]

[Lechery.]

Pleasure's all mine.