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[girl_unlocking]

[Red. In-your-face red. Both figuratively and literally, as the Forge is pressed up against the bright red wood of - welp, it's hard to say what it is until the camera pulls back to reveal that it's a place to sit. Or to put stuff (namely baskety stuff) - and it's attached to what looks like the bastard child of a clock and a unicycle.

(static)And

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[video]

[obsessed_gamer]

We have a welcoming committee?

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

I guess. I mean, yeah. I'm---

---we have half.

[video]

[obsessed_gamer]

Your friend...?

[He gives a small smile of understanding.]

I'm sorry.

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

You didn't do it.

[It's not even that snarky, but she feels bad anyway.]

I-it happens. A lot. I just...

...you're new.

[justicelobster]

[ Completely deadpan. ]

"Kingflux".

[ He can wager what that means, but the fact that this young woman would come up with such a word... ]

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

Which you're a part of, by the way. How's that working out for you?

[It's better than jerkflux, but I guess there's always room for combining.]

[video]

[justicelobster]

Of the "Kings" that I know of, one is a usurper that sought to steal half my kingdom, one is my younger brother whose only right should have been as my heir, and one is an abomination born of incest that has never had any rights to the throne.

The only true kings are elder brother and myself. However, so long as he lives... once again, by the laws of the Seven Kingdoms, I am naught more than a Lord, though I remain his heir.

[ ...At least, that had been how he had interpreted the laws. It was all rather complicated, seeing as it is not custom for deceased kings to raise themselves from the dead. ]

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[girl_unlocking]

Seriously? Dang.

But at least you have family here. I was pretty freaked out when I first got here - which, by the way, I think is the gold standard for hello, you are suddenly in another dimension - and all I really wanted was my sister.

Who was dead at the time, so...

...yeah.

Does this mean you're Lord Stannis now? Cause I can remember that. Unless you just like being called Your Majesty.

[video]

[bedsidemanners]

I think we have enough of those already.

[surprisingly, he's more concerned with what's in the basket] ... Any reason for the gray?

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

Enough of what?

[She looks confused for a moment. And then---no, that's more confusion.]

The whuh? The---

---oh. No, that's green. It's supposed to be---

[Totally grey, Dawn.]

---that just means it's extra stale. Or maybe a rock.

[video]

[bedsidemanners]

Jerks.

[... oh, boy. Raphael winces.] Is business that bad lately?

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

Someone needs to tell the Door that. Or make a sign. Anatole, population full up on jerks, thankyouverymuch. It's not bad at all. Business is good. Great, even.

[private!]

I um---

---I keep those around for target practice.

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

I'm not taking her name off the seat.

[...]

Yeah? What is it?

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

[Caroline? Oh yeah.]

It is? That's ...good to know. You know, if I'm looking. Which I am. It's just...

...unfillable boots.

[text]

[maelstroms]

Stupid...?

[ He doesn't think so, whatever it may be. ]

The picture is a nice one.

[text] 1/3

[girl_unlocking]

Thanks. I'm not even sure how it got there.

[text] 2/3

[girl_unlocking]

I mean on my Forge. It's kind of acting funny.

[text] 3/3

[girl_unlocking]

I guess it's a good kind of funny though. The broadcast. Its whats stupid. I hate having to tell everyone she left.