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[worksmart]

[At first this entry appears blank. Then, falteringly, four words type themselves out in block capitals and flash shakily on the screen.]

BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER

[Almost as soon as the final R appears it starts to erase itself, a whitewash sweeping backwards through the text. These words replace it.]

ROBERT CHASE
1976 - 2006

[They remain on

Comments

[adamantined]

That seems a little premature.

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[worksmart]

[Obviously he checks his screen before typing a reply.]

I didn't write it.

[worksmart]

Which one?

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[adamantined]

The Network did?

[eiremagic]

Yeh're daft.

[worksmart]

No, whoever hacked my account is daft. Nothing to do with me.

[eiremagic]

Who would hack yehr account?

[worksmart]

No idea.

[worksmart]

It might be.

[worksmart]

It's 2006 where I'm from, Angela. On the theory that time here doesn't count.

And I'm not married.

[avengement]

The time is set.

[worksmart]

It's just a prank someone's playing.

[avengement]

Is it?

[worksmart]

I think so. Nothing to worry about.

[7thborn]

Something tells me that's not right.

[Pause.]

And for your information, I've been doing just fine against 'things like that.'

[Yes, Chase. She's back to her old stalking ways.]

[worksmart]

Probably not.

And I'm sorry, someone obviously forgot to keep me up to date with the number of nests you'd cleared out.

[7thborn]

Right. Because it's more than a little weird that you and Percy were born in the same year.

[No, really. Percy. Merlin help them all.]

I haven't cleared out any. Yet. But I haven't gotten mauled, and considering everything else that's been going on, that's bloody impressive.

[worksmart]

So was Freddie Prinze, Jr. The similarities are uncanny.

I wasn't denying that what you can do is impressive. I was pointing out that no one knows how you'll hold up against an entire roosting flock. Which I think you've just agreed with.