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[greatlightother]

[Most of this is written, except what's being said to Petronilla. She's gotta keep some privacy, after all.]

Well, we made it through the first day, didn't we? That's something to be happy about. [A few scratchouts.] You really expect this to help us at all, Admiral? Or is this really just a giant game for you?

[Private to Martha]I didn't give

Comments

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

What do you want that you don't already have?

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

You can have more of those.

But, you're not going to go smoke. If I can't go and smoke, you can't.

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

Because this flood has made it impossible to go very far from my new, temporary inmate- Victor.

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

I don't know. But I might have to risk it.

But not with you. Not yet. You need to rest and not fill your lungs with that.

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

Do it in a day or so. And you can ask me here, unless you want Victor to hear.

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

Fine.

What do you mean?

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

I didn't know. Because it didn't seem right.

O'Brien, I had been gone that night and most of the following morning. Off the barge. When I came back to that, it all seemed so wrong. Like I had come back to the wrong barge.

Is that what you wanted to know?

Re: private.

[greatlightother]

Yes.

But that wasn't exactly a complete truth.