AUDIO;

[nukeoleptic]

Grrr. Grrrr! -- oh my god, not this- woof!

[ The sound is distorted, muffled. The network keeps messing up; if she didn't need it to retain color, she'd probably throw it in the lake. ]

No, kitty, come here, I'm sorry! Oh my god, is this broadcasting, stop it, bracelet-

[ That last sentence echoes, ripples as if she's speaking under water, and magical feedback buzzes loud.

Dead air for a second.

And then the audio cuts back in, mid sound-- ]

Woof! Dammit, grr-

[ And the growling gives way to breathless and loud barking as Jade trees the cat. Dead air again, and the feed finally cuts. ]

Comments

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[alternia_strength]

Indeed. Ours was a star-faring conglomerate of conquest after all. Escaping the gravitational pull requires a certain amount of advancement.

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[nukeoleptic]

Hehe. I can understand wanting to travel the stars.

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[alternia_strength]

Countless worlds to conquer and claim in the name of the empire. It is a worthy enough task to be certain.

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[nukeoleptic]

-- okay, that's less than alright.

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[alternia_strength]

What? What would you expect? Ours was a galactic empire of conquest after all. It is in our nature.

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[nukeoleptic]

But what's the point of conquest?

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[alternia_strength]

... the point? [Yeah, you just floored him there. He'd never thought of it.] That is a question for sea-dwellers, not the nobles who serve them.

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[nukeoleptic]

I realize that this is a pretty ethnocentric thing to say, but it just doesn't make any sense to me.

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[alternia_strength]

No, I suppose it would not. Yours as a species never seemed united enough for that sort of project.