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[Nepeta stands behind a brightly decorated stall in one of the main areas of Freyr, looking bright and chipper and even more excited than usual.

"Black and Blue" is the name announced across the front of the stall, with lots of not-completely-professionally drawn pictures of the services offered at Equius’ and her shop.

She has a smile on her face as she cheerfully accosts passers-by, offering them a tray of cupcakes, and she seems to have enlisted Aurthour to do the same, while Pounce carries an open bag of sweets in her mouth to draw people in.

Nepeta and Pounce both have a cute black and blue ribbon tied above one ear, and Aurthour seems to have acquired the same as a bowtie. Oh! And it looks like a certain glowering moirail of Nepeta’s has been talked into wearing the same as he presides behind the stall.]

Come visit us at Black and Blue! The best service station in Asgard!

[The only one, actually, but shh. She’s having too much fun with this.]

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I'm frequently told I don't make sense when I think I make perfect sense.

We share that in common, though I do ... apologize for the confusion that translation results in.

Oh, that's all right.

[ Thinking, thinking ... ]

Did you say she needed rage?

Societal expectations. I wished to forcibly draw her into another social caste. A not so gentle reminder that she is meant to be where she is, not forced into the blue bloods where she did not belong.

So basically you tried altering her?

Yes, for what I expected was her benefit. It has been clarified how unwise the effort was.

It really was.

You do not really need to explain that. Believe me. It is an error that I am well aware of.

I'm glad you realise that.

Hmmmph. I would have preferred to realize it then, instead of almost a sweep later, after I was dead.

... Hindsight is a ... troublesome thing.

That's some impressive hindsight, though.

It is more thanks to the insight of others than myself. I doubt I would have reached the same conclusion alone. It was not culturally ingrained to be reached by one of my station.

Well, that's not a very unusual situation.

Hmmmph, the main surprise is that those who assisted me included those of the same culture. But some of the lower castes are more willing to think broadly than the highest.

Funny how they tend to be that way.

[ Not surprising. ]

I have been given to estimate that it is expected to be a somewhat common occurrence. We rarely let forward thinkers survive long enough to foment rebellions in Alternia. This place has been... enlightening in that respect.

[ Grimace. ]

Well, that's rubbish. A society can't get anywhere without forward thinkers.

[He coughed and frowned, his fists clenching before he stopped growling.]

Perhaps it would be best if we expedited the conclusion of the conversation to this point. I am... accepting that there are significant flaws in the system that Her Imperious Condescension established, especially after meeting and knowing her for several months. However, it is one thing to recognize it, and another to pick it apart in detail, if that makes sense.

[ Non-committal sound. He can't just. Wipe the fight out of him. It's taking everything in his power to not call Equius an idiot.

When did he develop that sort of consideration?

Or perhaps it's because Equius is starting to think. He doesn't want to thwart that. ]

[He nodded once and cut the feed. He was thinking far more about these things these days, but it really was a long process for him.]

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