VIDEO and TEXT. post-siren.

[zealouspeter]

[the image snaps into focus relatively fast, clear and centered on a table, a heat lamp and tiny winged reptile. the tiny winged reptile's curled up under the heat lamp on top of the table, seemingly unfettered and contentedly asleep

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[voice]

[mentis_reae]

Congratulations on your acquisition.

I should say that we have a number of worlds - not Earths, as not all come from Earth - equal to the number of people here.

text --->

[zealouspeter]

Thank you, Mr. Edgeworth.

And not completely. There's about five people from your Earth, aren't there? That only counts once.

[voice forever]

[mentis_reae]

I do not, in point of fact, know that it does.

[zealouspeter]

Have none of them come from about the same time?

[video]

[countryfryed]

Ain't never heard of a mechanical world!

teeeeext forever.

[zealouspeter]

Neither have I! But it must exist somewhere, if there's a world that's only nature.

viiidja forever

[countryfryed]

There a world what's only nature?

[zealouspeter]

[a beat - he has to think over what that means. guessing,]

Nature and people in wooden houses, right. The people are sometimes animals, too.

[gaveherwings]

I didn't know you'd acquired a pet! A bit more high maintenance than you were expecting?

What happened on the first attempt of side exit?

[zealouspeter]

Not too badly. Finding out everything that it eats has been an experience, though. [hm--] They sounded too interesting and inexpensive to pass over.

[simply,] The Pull.

[gaveherwings]

So you weren't just envious of Jomy's new cat? What does it eat?

You tried a boat then?

[zealouspeter]

[-- that's news.] Jomy got a cat? And almost everything with protein.

There was one for sale a long time ago. They let you test it out. - Have you ever tried?

[voice]

[acemedium]

[Maya's voice is quieter and more subdued than usual, but it's clear she's enthralled by the dragon]

Woah... I-Is that....

text forever!

[zealouspeter]

A flying, smoke-breathing lizard!

[... it might not be as impressive, in text.]

voice forever!

[acemedium]

T.. That's so cool..!

[zealouspeter]

Isn't it? It thinks for itself, too!

[voice]

[ratherchilly]

Your initial list is what comes of owning a dragon, I think. It will likely get worse as time progresses, so I hope we can look forward to updates.

text forever.

[zealouspeter]

The numbers will just pile up, I think-- it's not supposed to get much bigger than it is.

I'll make sure to track what it all finds to ruin, though.

[and a slight pause.]

Your world had dragons?

voice forever.

[ratherchilly]

Clearly, or else I wouldn't have offered this commentary. How do they ensure that it remains that size?

[zealouspeter]

Breeding, I'm guessing. They might have been engineered.