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[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

[A very, very large stack of books sits behind V/V in her hotel room. She faces the camera.]

First, does anyone know how to successfully advertise? There wasn't anything like it on Venus, of course, since that would have been ridiculous. And I really want to do a good job for Gilgamesh, or he'll probably get mad... [As an aside:] Do you think he'd throw me out the window too? That would hurt more this time.

Um, second. Since there are a lot of books that weren't good enough to be in our store, or I guess that's the reason he gave them to me, if anyone wants to check some of them out I'd be happy to let anyone have them. Please stop by. It's nice to see people, too!

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[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

You can tell me as little or as much as you want to. I don't mind.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I know, and I know I can trust you to keep hush-hush if I ask you to.

[She deflates a bit, musing to herself.] I think I'm just worried about certain people I know back home, coming here and finding out about this'n'that.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Lots of people here have other people they know from the same world, don't they? I wonder why.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Luck of the draw, I guess. And judging from some of the reactions, it's a mixed blessing, too.

[Someone may or may not be keeping an ear to the grapevine and deriving some amusement from the Love Dodecahedron in Prospero.]

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I only know one person from home, so I'm lucky to have met him again here.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[She nods.] We haven't talked much, but he seems really nice. Seems he cares a great deal for you, too.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

He takes good care of me.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[A nod.] I figured. Like I said, he seems really nice.

[There's a bit more silence, and a few last thoughts are gathered.]

...Alright, didn't mean to try avoiding answering for so long, so I'm sorry about that. Like I said before, would you mind trying to keep kinda quiet on all you're about to hear?

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

[She makes the Librarian Shush gesture.] Mum's the word.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's my trick... nicely done. [She smiles and nods in approval.]

...Guess I should start with the "what". And because I kinda like opening things with a question; how old do you think I am?

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Hm... I don't know. If humans age about the same rate as I've seen, I guess you'd be... in your late twenties?

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Mm, yeah. Something about that sounds right, going off of appearances.

M'closer to one thousand and three hundred years, though. I age good, huh?

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

You do age well. How did you manage that?

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

One of the few benefits - if you could call it that - of not being human, I guess. Y'know what robots or androids are?

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

...Not really.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

...Just think of 'em as artificial life that's not really organic. I'm the latter, the twenty-second android made out of... err, lots.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Okay. Who made you?

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Dunno who exactly. It was all part of a bigger, overarching project. Just an offshoot or subdivision.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

That's a shame. Family love is a wonderful thing.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I know. I've got a twin sister, remember? I guess all the other observers count, too... though the amount of times I've seen the rest of them combined is pretty low, comparatively.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I'm happy for that. You're a kind person and you should have people who make you happy.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[Devola's face assumes a bit of a vacant expression at that comment. Not quite like she was recently sucker-punched, but still one that was disoriented. When she spoke again it was in a distracted mumble.]

Kind... yeah. I dunno.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Did I say something wrong? You've been kind to me.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I... no, sorry. It's just.

You know how the Shadows that looked like us were giving us an ear-full of "things we didn't want to hear"? Can I just say mine worked towards playing with an existential crisis and leave it at that?

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I won't pry.