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[powerofgod]

[Video activation! When it turns on, the wearable's owner is revealed to be a young boy, perhaps sixteen. If this new situation perplexes him, it absolutely does not show, either in his expression or his inflection when he speaks

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They told us you were dead. That everyone who disappeared was dead.

[Kimiko despises being lied to. As much as she does being told what to do, more than handouts and leashes and limitations. Broken promises and lies. She does not, as a rule, hate. These circumstances are a little bit outside the ones under which that rule was made. She looks away, thinking. ]

So, for what it's worth, whatever happened to your asshole progeny, he has the same chance you did to be scooped up by an adjacent causality. Maybe not this one, but the potentials are more infinite than stars and if you could fit through that narrow an aperture, then either this portion is particularly dense, or blind chance dropped you here.

This station is full of mistakes. The planet-

[She pauses, and in a moment puts aside one obsession for another.]

May I take some scans while you're here? I still have my comm from the ship. I want to see if the rift or the gap between here and the Elegante induced any changes in your genetic structure. It'd be nice to get it done before Northman shows up.

[Godric will not be surprised to find that her opinion on Eric hasn't changed.]

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[powerofgod]

[Godric knows better than to attempt to derail Kimiko on one of her tangents. He merely nods, accepting whatever she might wish to do.]