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[nicebluehat]

[The camera's propped up straight on a table and is pointed at an Asian kid with short black hair and a blue cabbie hat. The kid looks a little young to be on this ship of fools (fourteen? fifteen? sixteen?), but is sitting up politely and has a notepad out and a pen like this is going to be an Important Professional Conversation.]Good afternoon

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[hopeless_hacker]

[Welp, no way of knowing if this is just a clever means of swift information-gathering by an Inmate, but she's not releasing information that's not already public, so. Also, completely unphased by the age/career discrepancy because Tosh is a lifetime member of the Eh, I've Seen Weirder club.]

Name: Toshiko Sato
Status on Barge: Warden
Origin: Lately of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Formerly of London; originally Osaka.
Previous profession: Xenolinguist and technical expert
Last known date before arrival: [SOMETIME HALFWAY THROUGH 2008]
Current length of stay: Approximately two years.

Welcome to the Barge, Miss Shirogane.

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[nicebluehat]

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Thank you, Sato-san. A pleasure.

...I'm curious, though. "Xenolinguist"? [She's not that good.]

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[hopeless_hacker]

[She hesitates a moment, then switches to Japanese. She...doesn't have a Kansai accent or speak the dialect for reasons known only to the Torchwood writers.]

Xenolinguistics involves the translation of alien languages. I worked for an agency which processed extraterrestrial flotsam and jetsam that appeared on Earth; documents and other data were often a part of that.

[nicebluehat]

[And she continues the switch to Japanese. She was raised by old men and TV rather than the outside world, so doesn't use Kyoto-ben or have much of an accent. Unsurprisingly, though, she is calling herself "boku".]

I see. It's common on your Earth, then?

[She met Izanami a couple days ago, and Persona gods are aliens, but she still classifies that as "spirit world" rather than "extraterrestrial".]

[hopeless_hacker]

More common than a lot of other Earths represented here, I'll say that much, although there were very few agencies like mine. I worked near a rift in space-time that needed constant policing.

[nicebluehat]

So, somewhere like we are now.

[hopeless_hacker]

Only in the sense that we could sometimes expect visitors from different points of time and space. Cardiff itself was a fixed point on Earth, and the Rift was rarely if ever a deliberate destination in the way that the Barge is - for Wardens, at least.

[nicebluehat]

I certainly didn't know where I was going. But I see your point. It must have been an eye-opening experience.

[hopeless_hacker]

I meant that Wardens generally come here by choice and not by mistake, even if they aren't fully aware of what or where the Barge is.

May I ask what kind of cases you consulted on?

[nicebluehat]

It varied. Sometimes my client was a private actor, others a prefectural police department who needed fresh eyes. The most recent was a serial kidnapping and murder investigation, but that one was... out of the ordinary. [understatement of the year.]