Many-Two [voice]

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So, er, I got some questions. Many questions

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[perfectibility]

Ahahaa-- That girl would be me actually.

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Er... Yuuki, der name is, right? You're okay after all, t'en?

[perfectibility]

Yup, that's me. Um yeah, pretty much.

Did something happen while I was gone?

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[Detritus considers this ponderously.]

...Dunno when you left, but there was this big flyin' eyeball that knocked down a bunch of cabins a few weeks ago, an' a few people fought with it an' shot stuff at it, an', er, the people what shot at it absolutely did not accident'ly set fire to any cabins in der process. Whatever anybody might say.

An' then the eyeball thing disappeared, an' I've been lookin' all over but I haven't found it, so I dunno what happened. But everything has been pretty quiet since then, miss.

[perfectibility]

I-- I see...

I'm sure... you wouldn't be able to find it now...

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[frowns] It should be kind of hard to miss, right? Pretty big, after all.

[pause] ...D'you know what happened to it, then?

[perfectibility]

It left.

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...I thought there's no way out of this place except dying? Dat's what Mr. Vaati said.

[perfectibility]

This is true, but... it was just a monster the Reaper thought up. I defeated it before I died. [half life is obvious, maybe]

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Oh, right. Well done.

[Looong pause, and a thoughtful frown. Detritus is not very bright, to put it mildly, but he's been a copper for long enough to realise there's something not quite right with this picture.]

...How did you die, miss?

[perfectibility]

Hahaha, thank you! I am here to serve and protect... even if it's not back home.

Um-- it's still sort of fuzzy, but I did fight against Va-- the monster. I remember something aiming for my chest. I don't remember much else after that.

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[Detritus is temporarily derailed from his would-be murder investigation by 'to serve and protect'. The wording's familiar to him...]

...Was you a watchman, back home?

[perfectibility]

Well no, but I'm a Perfect back home. I protected the students at the academy.

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Oh. Was dere a lot to protect 'em from?

[perfectibility]

Yeah.

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[He nods.] Back at home, I was in the Watch. We protected people in der city. But t'ey get dangerous, schools, right? All kindsa trouble used to happen at der university.