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[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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[robodidactic]

[Kimiko tends to get lost in her work. Food? Air? Sinlight? Forget it. All she needs is the force of will an a metric boatload of caffeine. But, speaking of boatloads, she does have a couple of different alarms set to her wearable.

One of them being mention of the word, "Elegante" on the network.]

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[Magic comes with sparkles. I'm seeing a certain lack of sparkles. Regardless, the door opens with a hermetic hiss.]

Come in.

[Most people would hesitate before saying that to a vampire.]

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[And in he steps.

And he stands. Did you miss that creepy stillness he's got going on, Kim? Did you?]

I would like to know what happened.

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Uh...

[And do you remember her incessant fidgeting? Kim inhales, opens her mouth, then closes it. Let's...see how many places there are in here to look at that aren't vampires. Oh, there's the ceiling, and the floor and...]

Before or after?

[She means Sacrosanct, but is as willing to grasp at a frame of reference as Godric might be to provide one.]

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After my departure from the Elegante.

[He's not really looking for specifics. But-- he had been fond of many of the other passengers, inasmuch as one could be at his age. Concern isn't quite the right word, but perhaps curiosity is.]

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A lot.

[You can paraphrase a lot of crap for the benefit of Sokka or even Jim, but Godric was Kim's friend.]

It was as if the captain was losing his grip on the ship. Things started to get in. He was insane, but you could tell when something insane had happened and he hadn't meant it to.

We were almost to the Shore when the first actual person got through. We- I thought he was a passenger. [Own your mistakes. They teach you where you are wrong.] He was there for sabotage, but he couldn't have done anything without our help. It was stupid.

[THERE. SHE SAID IT OKAY.]

He got away, sort-of. There was a lot of fighting and disasters, but we eventually got the whole story out of Redd and the Heron. It turns out we were all running from this thing. Like a blob of nothing but hatred and hunger. They called it The End because it had devoured entire causal loops, destroyed entire universes, ate them and everyone in them. The captain killed himself fighting it, along with everyone else in the crew.

[Even the bears and she's ashamed to say

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['Annoying'. In that word alone, he understands all that she does not say, and casts his glance to the side.

Yes. He can imagine. There is an accompanying emotion to her words that he can't quite name, but thinks might be empathy. For Marco. For Vie, and Remy and Goten and, yes, even Kimiko herself.

It feels a little bit like stepping into the sunlight, and Godric closes his eyes.]

I am-- sorry, Kim, that I left you to face it alone.

[That's a general sort of 'you'.]

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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

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