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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

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@astarkov

[sunmon]

You may want to pick things that people will recognize.
I don't know what starbucks or All Dogs Go to Heaven is.
Or May.

[ whew. ]

[dissemblance]

（ hello little not-russian girl, she remembers you quite fondly. however, it's not as if dostoevsky translates all that well into romanoff. so, instead: ）

I'll make a new set just for you. 😉

  ① I've never watched an eclipse. 🌘 😱
  ② My favorite flower is the hibiscus. They look like this: 🌺
  ③ I like dancing, but I'm not very good at it anymore. 💃

[sunmon]

I think you're still good at dancing.
Plenty of people haven't seen eclipses, and that's a very particular flower.

[dissemblance]

（ they are in fact all lies, but she was prepared to go with whichever one alina chose as the correct answer anyway, so: ）

You got me.

So, now it's your turn.

[sunmon]

I don't know how to ride a horse.
I've met the King of Ravka.
I served in the army.

[dissemblance]

（ she already knows alina served in the army, and doesn't feel the need to push for more.

riding a horse is almost certainly the lie, it's too artfully mundane to be anything else. but natasha isn't terribly interested in the circumstances that lead to her knowing dressage (hah) so — ）

2. Not many places still have royal families these days.

[sunmon]

Maybe in your days.
That one's true.
What do you have instead of a royal family? Kerch has a merchant council, I think, but I don't know much about how it works.

[dissemblance]

Presidents, prime ministers, a few dictators for fun and flavor.

From what I know about the rest of the universe, that's pretty par for the course. But then, I'm from Earth, like the Adamant's survivors.

[sunmon]

Fjerda has a king. Shu Han has a queen. Ravka has a king.

If you don't have a royal family, how do you decide who's next in line to rule?

[dissemblance]

How much time do you have? Because if I get into the fundamental concepts behind democracy, we could be here a while.

[sunmon]

How about the simplest version?
Five minutes.

[dissemblance]

（ and so roy doesn't have to mail tifa a giant sugar free gummi dick, natasha does in fact give a diligent five minute info-dump on direct versus representative democracy, the fundamental ethics of democratic responsibility, and all the fucking rest of it.

this handy little (written) speech, when spoken aloud, would clock in at around 4:54 seconds.

ya fuckin' welcome.

don't get her started on communism, alina. don't do it. ）

I FORGOT TO WRITE A REAL TAG TO THIS

[sunmon]

That sounds unstable.
I mean, even the Adamant has Captain Childe.

@cal

[psychometries]

I thought I was the only one who didn't catch any of that.

[sunmon]

Oh, no, you're not alone at all.
I assume it's something from Earth. Some of the other hatchlings are from there too, it seems, just like the Adamant survivors.

[psychometries]

Earth? I haven't heard of that planet. It must be somewhere outside my galaxy.

I'm guessing you're not from there either?

[sunmon]

If my planet — or galaxy — has a name, I've never had cause to learn it. I've never even left my country before.

[psychometries]

You mean you can't leave your planet at all?

[sunmon]

We don't have those kind of ships.

[psychometries]

[ His mind is truly blown. ]

Things must be a lot different where you come from. It's kind of hard for me to imagine, actually.

But I guess this means that you actually have left your country before, since you're here now. Hatching from an egg probably isn't the best way to do it, though.

[sunmon]

[ it makes her laugh, at least. ]

Perhaps not the best way to travel.
Though I hear ships on the True Sea can make passengers ill, so maybe I got lucky.

[psychometries]

Like a surface ship? I've actually never been on one of those either, but I've heard that too.

But as long as I'm not covered in... whatever that was, I'll take it.

[sunmon]

Hatching from eggs isn't a common experience for those sailing the stars?
I'm relieved.

[psychometries]

Can't say that it is, but there's always a first time for everything, right?

Did you ever find out what Starbucks or May is?

[sunmon]

No luck, unfortunately.
Maybe those of us from outside Earth should start taking and sharing notes.