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[Today Ledah is without his red coat and neckcloth. He is instead wearing a trenchcoat that some may recognize as being April's - made more obvious that next to him on the bed, reading a book (but glancing over at him as he speaks), April can be seen wearing his clothing.]

Lancer and Edgeworth, I have dates for our prior arrangements that I would like to confirm.

As for the rest of you, in order to make this a more public post... what are your hobbies?

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Many would call that a duty rather than something they enjoyed.

Many are not Sparks, Ledah. I am lucky in that my field of study intersects with my empire's interests.

Have I asked what a Spark is?

[Oh good lord is he going to have to explain this.]

Perhaps not. You will have to forgive me; the term is common knowledge where I come from and I keep forgetting that others from other realities are not familiar. A Spark is a person born with potential to develop a particular brand of insanity. Generally they show aptitude for the sciences and their Madness enhances their cognition to the point where they can make great leaps and bounds in scientific thought and design, far beyond what a human without that Madness could.

The aim of my study is to discover what makes a Spark a Spark, and how to test for potential: the Madness lies dormant and generally manifests late into the teens, so it is difficult to pinpoint who will be a Spark unequipped to deal with their gift and furthermore currently impossible to safely disable it.

Am I making sense thus far? The term is particularly loaded and one that has a nebulous meaning simply because the word itself provokes such a visceral response where I come from. It is very difficult to explain.

I think so. But beyond being skillful at science, there is danger in this brand of insanity?

Ah, well, yes. It is called the Madness for a reason. The colloquial term for a Spark in fugue is to be 'in the Madness Place'. I suppose the simplest explanation is that this is a particularly focused, driven state of mind that only Sparks exhibit. They become rash, irrational, and often violent if not calmed. A natural tendency toward a desire for dominance mixed with the ability to easily craft an army of walking death machines all in one afternoon does not often end well for the surrounding peasantry.

It can be subdued, controlled, as I have learned to do. But it gook me twenty years of mental conditioning to do so. Most Sparks are killed by their very first creation; they simply have too little experience and too little common sense to keep themselves and others safe. So my aim is to shut off the Spark in those who are not mentally stable enough to use it and detect it early in those who are so that they can be educated from their breakthrough.

I see. How successful are you in this?

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