13th oath of the moment: The Wolf and the Moon

[lunawolves10th]

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[Around Mayfield, morning Garviel is visiting friends. He stops by Abel's house, just to check and make sure his friend is in fact droned for good. When he finds Abel's things nowhere around, and the typically polite but distant Frenchman almost too chummy, he stops, walking away swiftly. The confirmation is a far more bitter thing than he

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[bitemescumbag]

[Sleep was something always at a premium for Yuri. What little he could get was plagued by night terrors so often he'd all-but become desensitized to them. Still, he'd spent most of his life working off the bare minimum sleep needed -- that gave him a lot of free time after curfew.]

S'up, humongous.

[It was for that reason Garviel got a borderline-rude greeting from the young man sitting on a nearby bench, himself staring up to the sky.]

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[lunawolves10th]

Yuri. [He growls from his augmitters.]

[bitemescumbag]

Heh. Ya didn't strike me as the star-watching type. Space and all. Guess it's different from down here, huh?

[lunawolves10th]

Yes. Very different. I am curious if this is in fact the view that the Emperor and the others at the center of the Imperium have from Terra. If this is in fact more than just some strange simulacrum of reality.

[bitemescumbag]

...Probably? I mean, how much can the sky change in... [Beat. Oh yeah. Grimdark far-flung future.] Maybe a bunch, but Earth is Earth is Terra, yeah?

[lunawolves10th]

Indeed. But there are several grav-lifted orbital plates that serve as extra continents, like Lemuria and Atlantis.

[bitemescumbag]

Yaknow. There's something kinda funny about a floating continent called "Atlantis."

They still got that old story in your time, right?

[lunawolves10th]

Yes. I have read of it in books. I think it rather vulgar that the named one of the orbital plates after it, in fact.

[bitemescumbag]

Sounds like the kinda thing someone would suggest as a joke, and a buncha other people would just go along with it.

Are they really in-orbit? In the sky and all that?

[lunawolves10th]

I do not make up funny stories, Yuri.

Of course they are.

[bitemescumbag]

Heh. I don't doubt that at all -- though I kiiiinda doubt you ever tried.

Damn. 'tween you and Zegram, I'm startin' to wonder if I was born in a boring time period or something.

[lunawolves10th]

Zegram? This name is unfamiliar to me.

[bitemescumbag]

A co-worker at my town-given job. Only got one eye, and he's a bit more ruffian-lookin' than even me for it. [He laughs.]

[lunawolves10th]

Interesting. He must be quite a scoundrel to see, then.

[bitemescumbag]

[Yuri's quiet for a few moments, staring at Garviel with a befuddled expression before bursting out into laughter.]

Ha! I dunno if you meant it like that or not but ouch, man!

[lunawolves10th]

[Garviel shifts lightly.]

Ho ho. Perhaps I did.