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[goldengungurl]

So, I'm a little lost. [Ashley shifts the phone to her other hand, giving it a baffled look. A lot lost, if she were honest, but she isn't about to admit that on an apparently public channel.]

I'm not supposed to be here. I have- [A war to start at the orders of Whitcomb and a rebirth to experience? That doesn't seem right, but it's the only

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[threewordspls]

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[ There he was, just working on fine tuning the programming for the Christmas lights in the Sanctuary when suddenly there's a voice - and a face - he hasn't seen in some time. Don't mind the clattering noise of a datapad hitting a table. It's fiiiiiine. ]

Ashley?! [ ?!?!?!?!?!?! !!!!!! (basically) ]

[goldengungurl]

[So, Henry's here too. This is so weird.]

Whatever you just dropped isn't gonna explode, is it?

[threewordspls]

You're really ... huh ... wha- ... OH! [ Herp. He picks up the poor abused thing to give it a once over. ] It's just a datapad. I haven't worked on exploding ones yet for an extra, be all end all, data protection plan ... for obvious reasons. [ Oops? ^_^;; ]

[goldengungurl]

Good. [And if he ever does, she hopes he'll pass that information on to her for obvious reasons.]

Can you tell me what's going on here?

[threewordspls]

[ But explosions are fun ... oh all right. ]

Not satisfied with the flimsy 'welcome to Mandalus' speech? [ He wasn't either. ] At least part of their theoretical war on here that affects the worlds is true. The Serpent appears to be real. We have information here from the last time it all hit the fan. [ Which he missed out on a chunk of because he got killed and all. It wasn't his best day ever. ]

Oh! I'll get on making you a phone. We have our own so the Sanctuary - specifically all our databases - stays off their network. You'll need your first door code too ... [ tap tap tap poor datapad being put to actual work and not the fun Christmas lights stuff ]

[goldengungurl]

Wait, wait. [Back up, Henry.]

The Sanctuary is here? Mom's been here long enough to rebuild it?

[threewordspls]

Uh ... yes and no.

[ How to explain this mess ... ] Our hosts seem to have one extremely impressive replicator of some kind. Able to bring tall buildings into existence with a single ... whatever it is they do to set things in the city. Button press. Lever pull. Voice command.

[goldengungurl]

They recreated it here?

[Damn, this place...]

Reminding us of what we're fighting for. It's good. [She guesses.]

[threewordspls]

Basically. Even I have to applaud their attention to detail. [ Yes he totally looked through his room once he found the Sanctuary. ]

That's one view of it yea. In general I've noticed places tend to be related to where a person lived. It beats using the freebie apartment.

[goldengungurl]

I guess I'll skip that. Free apartments can't be that good anyway.

[threewordspls]

They're on the small side. And that kitchen doesn't come stocked. [ Yes Ashley. He's saying come here for the food too. ]

[goldengungurl]

I bet that was hard on you.

[She laughs.]

[threewordspls]

The Sanctuary was here already when I showed up. I was mercifully spared the horror of an empty kitchen. But I went to check out the free place anyway. [ And to poke around it like a snooping thing. ]

[goldengungurl]

Anything I should see?

[threewordspls]

Not in the apartments unless you want to feel a bit of dorm life. [ pfffft why. just come to the Sanctuary Ashley. Spare yourself. ]

The Venetian district's pretty awesome. Real gondolas.

And ... real space ships in the spaceport. [ SPACE SHIPS! ]

[goldengungurl]

There's a reason I didn't live in the dorms. [...It was because she was helping her mother, but they can pretend.]

A Venetian district and a spaceport? They pulled out all the stops for us, didn't they?