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[purging_virtue]

A) PHONECALL: To everyone

[For those who have had contact with him, Tieria is usually a pretty abrasive person, speaking with a constant tone of authority to his voice. But today, there's definitely something softer and uncertain about his words, and he almost sounds like another person.]... I was told that today is a day to celebrate mothers.

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[hontobakabaka]

[Walking down the street is a small blue haired albino girl who will just stare at Tieria playing in the dirt]

"Do you need help with that?"

[hontobakabaka]

"Experimental. About 25% of my blood has been replaced with a nanosolution and it has slowed my aging process down a bit, I suspect at current rate no more than 25% or so given comparisons of my physical stature against my biological mother's. The process was deemed amoral and illegal after the first class of us suffered a 95% attrition rate."

[purging_virtue]

The loss of your comrades is unfortunate; you shouldn't have had to experience it. [He's not really good at comforting others, but he's doing his best, even though the words feel awkward and hollow to him.] I'm glad, though, that you weren't one of the 95% and that we were able to meet.

[hontobakabaka]

"I was the one of twenty. But honestly I remember very little of it all, I was 4 when everything was finished."