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<guardian4N631>

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> He's the CEO. Owns the company.

<jkelly>

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>huh

[No wonder his ego is so massive, then. Still, though:]

>still creepy though
>i mean thank christ enjolras dont keep those kinda tabs on me thats all im sayin
>i almost refused to wear the uniform never mind what jack does

<guardian4N631>

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> You should see how everyone looks at Hyperion.
> It's just a sea of black and yellow.

<jkelly>

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>i hope you wear all blue and red now

<guardian4N631>

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> I hadn't thought about those. I should get something blue.

[ Reds -- they were Lilith's colours. But blue was all of them, her, Steele, Maya and Lilith. She liked that. Liked that a lot. ]

<jkelly>

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>they got some pretty good stuff round here
>its kinda modern for me but
>if things change - your looks i mean - me friend beatrice makes dresses
>shes got wings so you know shes kinda gotta

<guardian4N631>

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> It's the opposite for me
> It's like dressing up with old costumes
> but I really like it.

> what's the strangest change you've had?

<jkelly>

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>it oughta be the magic
>fire comin outta me fingers and all
>but mostly the ears
>they keep MOVING
>like a dogs do you know? all the time

<guardian4N631>

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> I assume it comes with being sensitive to sound?

<jkelly>

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>not as much as youd think but a little yeah
>eyes too
>i can see in the dark pretty well
>we didnt have electricity for the first month so it came in handy

<guardian4N631>

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> That must come in use a lot.
> there wasn't electricity?

<jkelly>

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>nah
>i got me whole buildin as a reward from that tikka guy
>so no electricity for a while

<guardian4N631>

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> A whole building all to yourself?
> wow
> What do you do there?

<jkelly>

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>live mostly
>3 bedrooms 1 bathroom 1 kitchen
>i let me friends live there
>me an vanadi double up
>pretty good setup actually i missed the way houses from home were built

<guardian4N631>

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> What's it like where you come from?

<jkelly>

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[That takes a bit of thought. New York is many things, and lately Jack's been embittered to it-- but it's home, for better or worse. So:]

>busy
>lots and lots of people all living next to each other
>everybody lives with like though
>so you got Irish neighborhoods and italian ones and german ones
>you kinda gotta look out for yourself
>but you can get by if you try even if you got nothin
>lots of people wanna come
>i used to want to leave
>guess i got my wish

<guardian4N631>

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[ It sounds like... Helios, that mess of people teeming over each other in one huge space station -- or rather it sounds like people living anywhere, and she had been all of them, once. Living through every last fine part of them. ]

> You miss it?

<jkelly>

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>yeah

[No hesitations there. God only knows what he wants to do when he goes back, if he'll stay or leave or what, but home is home. And god, but he misses it. He misses the people, his friends, the only family he'd ever known.]

>what about you?
>whats home for you?

<guardian4N631>

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> Kind of the same.
> Only it's a big ship that orbits a planet.
> But people live over each other just as much.

<jkelly>

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>oh well
>big ship big city no difference yeah
>you miss it?

<guardian4N631>

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> Sometimes.
> I was always so busy that I never had time to enjoy it.

> but I like it here too

[ she misses her powers, though, in the way that she was -- all of them, with them in a hundred lives in a hundred seconds when her mind flooded open to the entirety of the network, she was alive in every second with them, it might have madness if it wasn't the cure for her loneliness. ]

<jkelly>

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>you got a chance now i guess
>to enjoy stuff and relax i mean
>i used to work all the time at home
>not quite what you did but still
>i get what you mean

<guardian4N631>

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> Yeah
> working day and night
> you never get time to appreciate the little things you know?

<jkelly>

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>so now what're you gonna do now that you got all this free time?
>personally i been gluttin meself on chocolate but you know thats me

<guardian4N631>

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> I was thinking start there
> then move onto ice cream maybe.